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Snow Days!
Feb. 2nd, 2011 08:57 amWell, the snowpocalypse has come to the Midwest.
Monday night, when
BlckwngdOrcl and I left for work, the ice on our car windows was so thick it took 25 minutes to scrape it off! We'd left 15 minutes early, because I could see a light dusting of snow out the window, but the ice, much less the thickness of it, wasn't apparent. The snow was of the variety with the hard crust on top, which supported my weight about 50% of the time, even when I was trying to break it.
Quite by happy coincidence, though, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my (andBlckwngdOrcl's) weekends, so neither of us was scheduled to work on what was predicted to be the bad snow days. Plus,
Parkland canceled Tuesday classes, and all the sudden, I had a whole day off where, once I got off work Monday morning, I had nothing to do! A friend was supposed to come over and visit, but he wasn't feeling well, and I told him I didn't expect him to come over in this weather, anyway, even though at that point it wasn't that bad. He said he didn't mind the weather, but ended up lying down for a while, and I, after a day of doing very little but catching up on the computer and hanging a curtain in my office (the light in here won't let me take a picture... it's a hot pink sheer curtain, on a rod with pink fluffy feathers and big faceted pink "jewels"... it's not as gaudy as it sounds, but it delights me no end), went to bed.
Well, looking outside my window today, we've had a good foot of snow, and the wind is just HOWLING. I can see that it's drifted to 2 feet or so in some places, and yesterday afternoon it was mostly sleet, so based on that and my experience night before last, I'm guessing there's a good deal of ice under all that snow. Even the University shut down today, and Parkland did again, too, of course.
Right now, though, I absolutely have the best of all worlds. We still have power (obviously), and since our "weekend" is Tuesday (night) and Wednesday (night), we weren't scheduled to work in the middle of all this, anyway, no school, and even my dentist appointment was canceled! We usually buy our meat in bulk (we go in with other people on 100% pastured beef/pork), I get all my milk/butter/eggs/cream from a farm on Saturdays, and I had done a huge grocery shop last week when I got paid, and there's plenty of cat food to be had (I get that in bulk once a month, too). The only thing I'm running short of, in fact (well, in addition to money...) is bottled water, and that's only because our apartment complex put in gates, and the guy who delivers it wasn't able to get past them, and we weren't home to let him in. And I think in a pinch, we and the cats can *gasp* drink tap water!
So I find myself in the rare position of having absolutely no obligations for 2 whole days in a row!! This is unheard of, since I normally have something to do (work and/or classes) seven days a week! I've kept my phone far away from me, so work can't try to call me in, and I've done very little, and I got to sleep in this morning!
It's GLORIOUS. :)
Monday night, when
BlckwngdOrcl and I left for work, the ice on our car windows was so thick it took 25 minutes to scrape it off! We'd left 15 minutes early, because I could see a light dusting of snow out the window, but the ice, much less the thickness of it, wasn't apparent. The snow was of the variety with the hard crust on top, which supported my weight about 50% of the time, even when I was trying to break it.Quite by happy coincidence, though, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my (and
BlckwngdOrcl's) weekends, so neither of us was scheduled to work on what was predicted to be the bad snow days. Plus, Parkland canceled Tuesday classes, and all the sudden, I had a whole day off where, once I got off work Monday morning, I had nothing to do! A friend was supposed to come over and visit, but he wasn't feeling well, and I told him I didn't expect him to come over in this weather, anyway, even though at that point it wasn't that bad. He said he didn't mind the weather, but ended up lying down for a while, and I, after a day of doing very little but catching up on the computer and hanging a curtain in my office (the light in here won't let me take a picture... it's a hot pink sheer curtain, on a rod with pink fluffy feathers and big faceted pink "jewels"... it's not as gaudy as it sounds, but it delights me no end), went to bed.
Well, looking outside my window today, we've had a good foot of snow, and the wind is just HOWLING. I can see that it's drifted to 2 feet or so in some places, and yesterday afternoon it was mostly sleet, so based on that and my experience night before last, I'm guessing there's a good deal of ice under all that snow. Even the University shut down today, and Parkland did again, too, of course.
Right now, though, I absolutely have the best of all worlds. We still have power (obviously), and since our "weekend" is Tuesday (night) and Wednesday (night), we weren't scheduled to work in the middle of all this, anyway, no school, and even my dentist appointment was canceled! We usually buy our meat in bulk (we go in with other people on 100% pastured beef/pork), I get all my milk/butter/eggs/cream from a farm on Saturdays, and I had done a huge grocery shop last week when I got paid, and there's plenty of cat food to be had (I get that in bulk once a month, too). The only thing I'm running short of, in fact (well, in addition to money...) is bottled water, and that's only because our apartment complex put in gates, and the guy who delivers it wasn't able to get past them, and we weren't home to let him in. And I think in a pinch, we and the cats can *gasp* drink tap water!
So I find myself in the rare position of having absolutely no obligations for 2 whole days in a row!! This is unheard of, since I normally have something to do (work and/or classes) seven days a week! I've kept my phone far away from me, so work can't try to call me in, and I've done very little, and I got to sleep in this morning!
It's GLORIOUS. :)
