Last night after physical therapy and Lost, I went to the grocery store to stock up on bread, milk, cookies, a sixer of Michelob Ultra Light and double A batteries.
This morning, I made myself a lovely steamy bowl of cream of wheat, the traditional “snow day” food of my ancestors.
Yesterday, I had my furnace fixed when I woke up to find it hovering around 50 degrees in my kitchen and moving my thermostat all the way to eleven produced no result. It’s now toasty warm in here. I even have wood for my fireplace.
My cat is looking especially fluffy and cuddly today.
I have three Netflixes sitting on top of my television.
There’s already about 3 inches down on the ground, and I just saw a pickup truck fishtail on the road right outside my cottage.
I’m still in a romantic-I’m-part-of-a-larger-whole mood after seeing the lunar eclipse on Wednesday, and then on Thursday morning before sunrise the moon so bright it hurt my eyes, and last night low in the sky, deeply orange, and twice normal sized.
The people on the radio are saying don’t travel unless you absolutely have to.
I’m wearing my favorite hoodie and fluffy socks given to me by SisterAlyson.
So I ask you, I ask you, why in the world am I upset that because we have a huge event on Wednesday, I have to go to work today?
February 22, 2008 at 8:54 am
When you put it that way, it DOES sound like a nice day to stay in…
Fixed your furnace?!? I thought you were going to have something involving plumbing fixed…
Yeah, sadly the plumbing’s working well, and the furnace man, he was just a regular old repair guy.
February 22, 2008 at 8:54 am
The only thing I was dreading more than the driving into work today is the cleaning off of the car for the drive back home after it’s been snowing on it for 8 hours.
Yeah, I got a ride to work because at the end of the day my driveway may still be un-plowed.
February 22, 2008 at 9:06 am
Cookies, beer, batteries, flix…you are extremely disciplined if you went in to work today. Dang resolute Northerners, always making southern slackers look bad.
Oh, I did it with extreme whining.
February 22, 2008 at 9:15 am
Oh! I’m sorry to hear you don’t get a snow day.
Did it bug you that Kate made that deal just to find out information she already would know if she had any common sense what so ever?
Yeah, almost everything Kate does bugs me. I think as soon as Miles told her he would tell her something, that was about the same as giving up his information.
February 22, 2008 at 9:29 am
Screw work. And I don’t just mean today. What is it with Americans and our gd determination to show up for work at all costs? You should be home right now, halfway through DVD #1.
And Michelob Ultra? I had you pegged as more of a microbrew. So disappointing.
I’m a surprising mix of highbrow and lowbrow. Also, no microbrews available at the Stop & Shop.
February 22, 2008 at 10:22 am
It sucks to have to work on snow days. My boss wouldn’t fire anyone who didn’t make it in, but he does always expect us to try. Sometimes I wish I was a teacher. Not often…only on snow days and spring breaks and the entire summer. Hee..
Yeah, I’d like a teacher’s schedule without all that pesky working with kids stuff.
February 22, 2008 at 10:55 am
Maybe you can skip out early! Today is my last day of vacation and I am still sick, how’s that for bogus? Plus it’s snowing and I didn’t even have the opportunity to get a snow day!
Well, I got a ride from my boss, and my 5 minute commute will probably take about a half hour, so I don’t think that skipping out early will solve all my problems here. I remember those snow days on vacation from when I was a kid. They were the WORST.
February 22, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I wish I had a snow day today, even though a snow day in the city doesn’t sound nearly as nice as a snow day at the Tannenbaum residence!
In the city you get about 5 minutes to enjoy the snow and then the clean up proceeds.
February 22, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Just send this to your boss and I’m sure he/she will understand.
Too late, I’m already here. I don’t think he cares.
February 22, 2008 at 12:40 pm
You went out after LOST? Maybe your tree farm is in a different time zone. I go to bed after LOST. Are things actually open then that late out there in dem dere sticks?
I actually am saving LOST for late night tonight. I was not feeling well last night.
February 23, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Maybe if you’d turned your thermostat to 70 instead of to 11, it would have been more effective…
(Sorry. That was a ridiculous and smartass thing to say. Unlike your mother, I did get the pop culture reference.)
Also, I love that in your mind, a DVD is a Netflix, and the plural is “Netflixes.”