Domestic Geek

Current mood: cold
Damn, it's 0?F outside right now. I guess it's supposed to drop to five below or colder.

Words of advice: If you order pizzas on a night when it's this cold out, don't say to your driver, "You must be cold" or "Try to stay warm" or complain about being cold yourself. I'm standing on your porch waiting for your ass to come to the door. Yes, I'm cold. If you really wanted me to stay warm, you wouldn't order pizzas and make me stand on your porch. You're in a warm house. I have no sympathy if you're a little cold while you're opening the door to get your pizzas. Lastyly, does no one in this town own a freakin' snow shovel? It snowed two days ago and every sidewalk and driveway is still covered in snow and ice. Geez.

I'm going to go get in my warm bed with my dog and read my "Lord of the Rings" book I got for Christmas.

Current mood: cold
Damn it, it's SNOWING! Why, why, why, why, why? I have to work tonight and I absolutely hate delivering in the snow. *sigh*

I only like snow when I can stay home, start a fire in the fireplace, snuggle up under a blankie on the couch with a mug of steaming hot chocolate and watch movies all night long.

Now I'm wishing I wasn't broke so I could call in sick to work.

Current mood: full
Well, we got even more snow last night and into today, so no school or work. Yippee!! As of now the official total for Denver is 29.5 inches. I've read that Aurora got as much as 40". I managed to get my craft room almost done. Marcus and I played in the snow again and we got Skippy to come out for a bit--more pictures here. I'm thinking there won't be school tomorrow either and our "spring break" is on Friday, so no school the rest of the week. The manager told me today that he's really going to try and open up tomorrow. I hope we can't, but I do need the money since I'm taking the weekend off.

Our friend Dave came over and had dinner with us. I made a lasagna. Yum! I ate two big pieces, that's why I'm so full.

We got the news about an hour ago that the war in Iraq has started. I worry for our troops, but it's about time this thing got underway.

Current mood: cold
Well, I guess the weather people were right for once. We got just a little bit of snow in the last 24 hours. According to channel 4's web site, we had at least 16 inches in the Denver metro area by 8 pm. The weather guy on channel 2 just said snow totals double what we have now would not be out of the question. We're under a blizzard warning because of the high winds.

The weather yesterday was crazy: a tornado touched down by Byers, I got hailed on while I was delivering and torrential downpours caused street flooding and power outages. It started snowing last night as Marcus and I went to bed. By this morning, so much heavy, wet snow had fallen that the poor guy that delivers out milk got his dairy truck stuck in front of our house. He ended up having to chain up to get going. School was cancelled, the manager decided not to open the store today, so I had the whole day off!!! I ventured out for a bit. I had to get the snow shovel out of storage and get some groceries. I'm so glad I own an all-wheel-drive Subaru. I didn't have any problems getting around. In fact, I was plowing through snow drifts just to see if I could. Most of the accidents I saw while I was out were the result of the snow having covered up the traffic signals.

Marcus was made to go home from work about 2 pm. He got his truck high-centered on the mound of snow in front of our house made by the guy who plowed our street. I took some pictures that are posted here. We had so much fun after he got the truck free. We had a snowball fight and he kept throwing himself into snowdrifts.

They just closed I-70 from Denver to Limon. I'm so glad we don't live out on the plains anymore. The last time we had a storm like this, we got stuck sleeping at my Dad's apartment, didn't get to go home for two days and spent all that time worrying about the dogs.

Speaking of dogs, poor Skippy is having a rough time. He's a little chilly since I shaved his hair off over the weekend. If I had known this storm was coming, I would've put it off a little. He spent last night sleeping in our bed and he doesn't even want to venture outside.

Well, I just found out I don't have school tomorrow, either. WhooHoo! The manager is probably going to close the store, also. He said he'd let me know for sure tomorrow. Well, guess that's about it for now.