Woke up to snow on the ground. It's at that stupid "not enough to plow" level, but also enough to make driving a PITA. I love my Crosstrek, but I'm still not quite used to it on the snow. I've only had to drive a handful of times on it. I drove a front wheel drive vehicle my entire life and Sassy (my car) is all wheel drive. Last year I finally just went out to one of the mall parking lots and re-taught myself how to pull out of a skid with an all wheel drive vs. front wheel drive. So, I have confidence in my ability, but I'd really rather just not have to drive on it at all.
Still just grinding away at work. Nothing too big is really going on. Connected with some local friends last night re: our friend who passed. We're going to get together to have a Manhattan (his favorite drink) in his honor this weekend and just remember him. He was a complicated man and my feelings on him are complicated, but he was a mentor of mine and a big influence for all me, as well as numerous of my friends. It's odd to think of someone who had so much influence over all of us (and continued throughout his career as a college professor), to just be gone so suddenly.
Y'all, I am OBSESSED with Encanto. I've watched it five times now. It's up there with Inside Out for me. I think it's perfect and I love the music. There has never been a more Varuna Disney song than Surface Pressure. I started crying at one point, b/c I kept thinking how this new crop of kid's movies are talking about things that were just verboten to me and so many of my peers when we were growing up and how healthy these kids were going to be and was happy about it.
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