Snow day

So, um, yesterday? In my part of the world? There was some pretty bad weather. This is what it looked like where my sister lives:

And this is what it looked like where my in-laws live:

Photos willfully stolen from my favorite local news broadacast.

So, not wanting to clog up the roadways and make a nuisance of myself, I stayed home yesterday, even though it looked like this where I live:

AND, I still didn't drive myself to work this morning, I called up my boss and asked for a ride. And he picked me up in his gargantuan red monster truck and now I'll probably get to go home early. Whee!

I know that if I lived in, say, Boston, the icy mess outside would be de rigeur. Right? But I have never driven in snow. I no longer drive my big ass beloved automobile. And the last time the weather was like this, I stayed home with a bowl of popcorn and watched local news footage of cars sliding down the city hills like pinballs.

Anyway, staying home meant that I skipped out on my monthly early morning meeting of mind-numbing boredom. I felt sort of bad about it, until I learned that only 3 people showed up. Unfortunately, they've rescheduled it for Monday, which I happen to have off. It's Martin Luther King Day! What is wrong with these people? Don't they know that the rest of America will be sleeping in and finishing up their Christmas returns? BOO.

I was supposed to, uh, "work from home", but when you don't really have any work to do, it's not terribly hard to spend your day as follows:

1. Go back to sleep after calling in your meeting absence at 6:45.
2. Go back to sleep after calling in your absence from work at 8:45.
3. Watch gobs of CNN while eating the largest bowl of Rice Krispies in the universe.
4. Wave goodbye to the husband who is required to Stand and Defend at the software company, lest the system go down and the East Coast customers declare war on the sysadmin geeks in Seattle.
5. Check your email.
6. Check your work email.
7. Read some blogs.
8. Bake some cookies to bring in the next day, because you feel guilty about not being at work, especially because the woman who lives in Renton, where there is 5 inches of snow and chains required on tires, made it in before noon.
9. Answer some work email.
10. Read more blogs.
11. Watch Duets on TV.
12. Download the Gwyneth Paltrow-Huey Lewis song from Duets using your last $1.07 stored on allofmp3.com.
13. Reminisce about your cousin's Huey Lewis and the News tapes she used to play for you in her bedroom when you were in elementary school.
14. Nap.
15. Eat a cookie.
16. Read more blogs.
17. Go out for pho and cream puffs at the only place to eat pho in Seattle.
18. Watch TV for another hour, only to realize that there's nothing good on TV.
19. Bedtime!

So yeah. I had a hard day. Poor me, huh?

Comments

[Arwen]

"15. Eat a cookie."

You baked cookies and ate only one? I admire your self-control, woman. When I bake cookies it is all I can do not to eat the whole batch in 24 hours. V. v. bad.

Although now that I think of it, my sweet tooth has really only kicked in since I've given birth. When I was pregnant I wanted nothing to do with cookies whatsoever.

[Melissa]

sounds like a full day to me!! I like your style!

18. i totally get this....we went 9+ years of marriage without cable or dish, and now that we have cable and 30 million channels I find myself in the same quandry as when we only had 3 stations. NOthing. Is. On. Ever. :)

[Maureen]

Well, you mentioned Boston, so I must comment. First of all, if you are counting this year, that much snow would have us Bostonians completely freaked out, because it has been spring all winter, until today when I fell down the porch steps because they were coated with invisible stealth ice. Thankfully, I was not carrying the baby or anything. The steps are now coated with highly visible and messy sand, but at least we won't kill ourselves. Second of all, despite the fact that it snows in Massachusetts almost every year, we actually ALWAYS freak out for reasons unclear to me. At the first sign of a snowflake, people raid the grocery stores for milk and no one ever remembers how to drive. It is possibly left over from the Blizzard of '78 when grocery stores actually ran out of stuff, but they never do now, so what is the problem? Every year it's like we've never seen snow before. Man, this comment is long.

[Christina/Mrs Broccoli Guy]

I can't believe you didn't get any snow! We are up to our ears in snow!
I'll have to try that Pho place... I see they have a location in Redmond. :-)