Snow and snowflakes

So we're getting 1-3, 4-8 or 5-12 inches of snow depending on who you listen to. With my luck and location I'll end up with no power and stuck down in the holler so I prepped for that. I have a whole roasted chicken (not that good, the rotissiere chickens are always a crap shoot), half a pizza and half an order of fish and chips left over. I baked off a pound of bacon, hard boiled a dozen eggs (and have some avocados for egg/avocado sandwiches). made a pot of chicken dumpling soup, a pot of ham and cabbage soup, have jars of peanut butter, a pound of turkey lunch meat and two loaves of bread. I think that counts as prepped for no power. Of course I'm more likely to freeze but I have plenty of blankets and if we get that level of snow (no rain please, no ice) I'll not be able to get out and get to somewhere with power but I think I'm on it.

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Okay so the regular readers of my blog know this but for everyone else, a year ago this Feb. I fell. ( cut for details you might not be comfortable seeing )

So I ended up in an external fixator for 3 week, then another 3 weeks in a long leg brace before having six simultaneous surgeries to repair the knee (on top of having the blood vessel repair). I was 8 weeks bed bound in the hospital/ rehab nursing home. From there I had to learn to walk again on a numb leg. I have done so. I've been living on my own doing everything for myself since August. I'm pretty damn proud of it and I'm still going to the gym to keep the leg strong but not as much as I need to.

Now let me talk about the things I'm proud of in addition to this. Within a week, I had my laptop and taught all my classes from the trauma unit and then the nursing home. This wasn't about me not being able to take time off. I could have. To me, this gave me something to do and kept me sane.

I wrote 360K of fan fic and about 65 K of original fiction in this time including four short stories. I sent out 3 of those and one was accepted for publication. I wrote three novel length Prodigal Son fan stories and one script for a virtual season (soon to be released)

I took part in and 'won' my 17th nanowrimo. I am still trying to get the novel moving forward (you have seen some of this for the snowflake challenge.

2021 was hard. I cried a lot. It hurt a lot but I made it through and I'm proud of myself.