Well for once the weather guy was right. We got snow. A lot of snow. Here's the view out my front window, taken with my camera phone.
I had weird dreams all night long about getting my driveway cleared out and wondering if the college would close. I dreamt that I barely had snow and the moisture meant I would actually have to mow the lawn again. Yuck. I woke up with a pounding headache and sore throat. Awesome.
Bleary-eyed and barely conscious, I grabbed my phone and eagerly pulled up the website to see what the verdict was: "OPEN as usual..." Crap. I took one peek out the window to see a winter wonderland and hoped my neighbor (I share a driveway) had cleared things out. Nope. Apparently they just pulled right out through all the snow. Crap.
The dogs seemed unfazed as they went bounding outside, leaping through the snow like little gazelles. The second time they went out they were a bit more wary and cautious. Poor Lilly could barely do her business...the snow comes up to her butt!!
I pulled out some wintery clothes (I honestly NEED to get some giant snowboots) and trudged outside to try to shovel my way at least to the car. HA! What a joke. This snow is heavy folks. And I do have a snowblower, but I've actually never used it so after fumbling for a bit, I gave up, frustrated, hot, and cranky with my head pounding.
It was then that I realized I wasn't going to work. Sigh. I started the coffee pot and breathed in the aroma. What was I thinking? Trying to shovel snow without morning coffee?!?
I called work and left a message (perhaps no one was even there yet) and started emailing people to cancel appointments for today, feeling guilty because apparently some people have braved the weather to go to work. As I'm sipping my lovely, hot coffee, I'm contemplating tackling the snow, or crawling back in bed.
But wait! A new email! Subject: "College Closed!" Apparently the conditions are "deteriorating rapidly". Uh, durr. It's STILL snowing and the wind has been picking up for the last hour! Whew. No more guilt AND I don't have to use my vacation time for this!
Now... if only my headache would go away and the snow would get shoveled magically on it's own.
What? A girl can dream.
3 comments:
Call me nuts but I'm jealous! We must be far enough east because all we have is wind! Our city basically shuts down when it snows and I'm dying for a snow day.
Hope you can get plowed out! I would just hire someone for $20 to come and do it. Then you don't have to leave the warm house...and the coffee!!!
I can see why you'd want a snow day. I really wanted one too, but gosh I wasn't thinking it would take most of the day to dig out! It IS very pretty though.
We have snow and it's like negative temps, but no snow day unless the schools close...I hope that next week it just snows like crazy...I am done traveling after tomorrow until I get back from vacation!!
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