Let it snow, let it snow, let it, well, you get the point

Forecast for today: 8-12 inches of snow. WOW!!!! That's a lot of snow! Everything is closed (except Matt's bank, poor guy)!!! Schools, history museums, governmental offices, and colleges in a nearby town. I think that in attending various colleges for about 6 years, I never had the college close because of weather. Of course, we never got this much snow in one day either!

So I have snow day and I 'm enjoying it by slowing drinking my second cup of coffee, watching Price is Right (just not the same without Bob) and randomly staring out the window, just waiting until I can shovel the snow.

There's a road in there. Actually a major highway in our county (honestly, THE major highway in our county) If you don't see it, don't worry, I don't either and I even know where it is.

Bird feeder. The poor birds are just so hungry but they keep getting blown off of the bird feeder.

Roads are closed, towns are in snow emergencies, etc... You get the picture.

Last Tuesday we were supposed to have an all county historical society meeting, which was cancelled due to the blizzard warning that we were under. We re-scheduled for today. Yesterday, we canceled it again and rescheduled for April, when hopefully, it will have stopped snowing.

Ahh, winter, how I enjoy thee.

Mer's gardening tips for today: Don't plant in a snowstorm. Also, if you have an apartment on a major street in a small town, don't use a glow light to start plants in front of a window in your kitchen. At night it casts a purplish glow out the windows and it looks like you're growing something other than tomatoes and squash.... (voice of experience)

All in favor that breakfast is good, say Aye!

AYE!!

The motion passes in favor of breakfast. Thank you for discussing the benefits and glories of breakfast foods. I especially enjoyed Dad's response listing the logical benefits of breakfast in order. I would also agree that waffles do have the greatest syrup to surface area ratio and you can put peanut butter on them. I just can't bring myself to put peanut butter on pancakes yet. And I stress "yet."

Ok, I'll change the topic.

I made curtains for our kitchen last night. Nothing special, just white panels, but as I was hanging them up, Matt remarked that the house was losing it's man-ish feel and was taking on a more girly feeling. I thought, "Well, yeah. That's the point." He was upset (not really) that I wanted to take down the vinyl blinds in the kitchen. Our house was a rental prior to us and I think that the tenant must have had stock in some sort of vinyl blind company because they are everywhere!!!! And I hate vinyl blinds. They feel cold to me, have no color, and are just ugly. Sorry if someone reading this likes them. Matt tried to argue the practical benefits of them but I wasn't listening. We compromised: I hung up the curtains I made and we left the blinds pulled up to the top until tonight when I'll take them down to hang the valance.

Today I was all excited because I'm wearing new dress pants to work. I was in dire need of dress clothes and I finally bought some this weekend. Anyhow, as I was driving to work, I tried to take a sip of my coffee from my travel mug when lo and behold, the top fell off. I ended up dumping about half of my cup onto my new pants, which are khaki. Drat. (Actually, I said more but this blog is PG-13 for Mom, so we'll keep it at "Drat") Well, I got to work and now I'm blotting them clean. But my theory is that since the spill is in my lap area, if I just keep moving, no one will notice. They might think that I just have ants in my pants, rather than coffee on my pants. We'll see how it turns out but all I can say is: Thank goodness for Spray n Wash!

Already failed

So it's the 10th day of the new year and I have already failed at one of my New Year's Resolutions. I haven't posted more or kept in better contact with people. Shame, shame, I know my name (most of the time). But I guess it's never too late to try to redeem myself.

I'm excited about tonight because tonight is the first night this week that I'll be able to go home directly after work! Yay! No night meetings tonight! And to make it even better, this weekend both Matt and I have Saturday off so I'm making breakfast. Probably some sort of egg/bread concoction, meat, and syrup. I am a firm believer that the only true purpose for the pancake/waffle/french toast is to be a vehicle for the syrup. Translated: I like syrup.

Here's some food for thought (yes, pun intended): Matt says that Hoosiers have an unnatural love of breakfast and the foods associated therefore with. Now, granted, he likes breakfast too but he says Hoosiers just seem to enjoy it during more times of the day than people from other states. So my Hoosier friends and non-Hoosier "fereigners," what to do you think? Do we Hoosiers have some abnormal love of breakfast? Are scrambled eggs perfectly fine at all times of the day? Is it ever too late in the afternoon for waffles? If someone says "steak," do you immediately think "and eggs?"
In the immortal words of Mike Meyers: Discuss amongst yourselves.

P.S. My most excellent Garner siblings (sorry, I'm still flashing back from the 80s) bought Matt and I a new digital camera for Christmas. Now we can post pictures and let you see the Casa de Lee and all the inhabitants. (Hint: I'm the only female in all the pictures, sadly outnumbered by a husband and two "special" cats.) And when I post them, I'll tell the sad story of the Italian Job: wherein a tall man lost his little digital camera in Rome, possibly to pickpockets. Really, that was pretty much the story missing a few more details and now with less cursing!