#MicroblogMonday: Small pleasures & annoying things

Some recent annoying things:

• Getting woken up at 5 a.m. on Sunday by the snowplow, clearing snow from the laneway & parking lot (i.e., directly beneath our bedroom window). :p  
• And.... more snow in the forecast for today. Heavy snow, in fact (at least 15-20 cm expected), & continuing on till tomorrow morning. It's already started, and the roads were already slippery when we were out for lunch & groceries earlier. And of course, my first book club meeting at the library is tonight... we'll see... (On the bright side -- no shovelling required!! ;)  )  
• Wearing a cardigan over my long-sleeved T-shirt, and socks AND slippers on my feet -- and STILL feeling cold (dh, meanwhile, still goes around the condo BAREFOOT...!!).  :p  
• The lightweight down jacket I bought last winter continues to shed feathers, particularly all over the seat of the car where I sit. :p  Perhaps not QUITE as copiously as before, but still enough to be very noticeable. :(  

And (for counterbalance) some recent small pleasures:  :) 

• Getting a haircut on Friday and feeling somewhat less shaggy. :)  
• Spending a good part of the weekend on the couch watching some fabulous figure skating (U.S. national and European championships).  :)  
• Receiving & going through a pile of documents from stepMIL that FIL had been keeping -- including dh's passport -- from 1970!!;  funeral cards, the guest book & the bill from his mom's funeral;  his parents' marriage certificate, etc. etc....

You can find more of this week's #MicroblogMondays posts here.