Domestic Geek

If you haven't heard yet, Colorado has been hit by the Holiday Blizzard 2006. Aurora has had 26" so far and it is still snowing. I was told to leave work an hour early yesterday and it took two and a half hours to get home (with a quick stop in the grocery store for food stuffs). I can't believe how many people I saw stuck spinning bald tires. Also, if you don't have 4WD and the snow drift is higher than your hood, you're probably not going to make it through. The stupidity of it all! I had to shovel the porch just to get into the house yesterday. Marcus loves it, though. We were out playing in it at midnight last night and again this morning. I'll post some pics over in the gallery in a little bit. Marcus is going to try and get his truck out later. There's a pretty big drift right in front of our house. We'll see.

My friend Russ has posted a video of the snow at his place.

So, Denver International Airport is closed. I'm so glad Dad left on Tuesday. They actually closed our workplace yesterday and only 7 people had made it in when I called this morning. A snow day would be cool if I was still getting paid like Marcus and Mike. *sigh* Oh, well. I've got puzzle pieces to search for and decorating to do.

OY, this is going to be a long-assed day. I had to take dad to the airport this morning. He's spending a couple of weeks out with my sister in California for the holidays. His flight leaves at 8:30 this morning, but as he wanted to make sure he got there in plenty of time, he wanted to be picked up at 5:30. The roads were clear and no waiting to get into the airport, so I dropped him off at a little after 6 am. Of course, I couldn't sleep last night. I couldn't go to sleep and then couldn't stay asleep. I hate how when you're afraid you're going to oversleep, you end up waking up every hour or so. I wish I had time to go back to sleep for an hour or so before I have to leave for work, but Marcus' alarm started going off at 7 and will go off every 10 minutes until he decides to roll out of bed. Oh, well. I almost wish that I would get to leave work early today...almost. I need money more than sleep at this point.

I had a bunch of stuff I was going to post, but now I can't remember. Too tired. I guess I'll keep a list at work and hopefully have something more interesting to say later.

Man, I swear I must have holes in my head. I had all these things I was thinking about on the drive home from work today that just slipped out by the time I got my computer booted. *sigh* I also make notes to myself when I'm at work about stuff, like things I want to do or a hexadecimal code for a color that I'd like to work into my site and danged if I can find those notes I made yesterday, either.

I think I caught my dog's diarrhea (just kidding about the catching it part — not the having it part).

I'm trying to fix my web site because something has been slowing the loading of it down and now it won't load at all. Marcus says our server is getting hammered. I hate hackers and spammers.

Have you ever had a dream where you won the lottery and then reality hit you hard in the face when you woke up that you hadn't? I did this morning. That's how my day started. My mom was also in the dream (very much alive and well), so that hurt, too. I was so bummed when I woke up (two hours early) that I couldn't get back to sleep. Then I find the dog in my craft room, no word as to whether I'm ever going to be full time at work, forgot to send my Netflix movie back so I could get Pirates of the Carribean for the weekend, diarrhea on my carpet, poop on my great aunt's heirloom quilt, my shower is leaking and I don't have the money to go buy parts, I'm a burden on Marcus, there's no money for Christmas presents again this year, I want to bake Christmas cookies but I don even have enough money to buy regular food...I'm at the end of my rope.

I've been trying to not vent this stuff here because I've been trying to be more positive about life, but today was bad. While I was scrubbing the carpet, I just lost it. The huge feeling of hopelessness just overcame me and I started bawling. I'm just so tired of bad things. I'm at the same point I was last year. I don't want Christmas to come at all.

I hate scrubbing sh*t out of the carpet! It's a good thing The Office is on tonight so I can get a little humor. It will probably not be as good as last year's, but it better not suck.