Domestic Geek

I need to get to bed so I get up on time tomorrow morning. It's supposed to snow a couple of inches overnight and be really cold in the morning. Yucky. I hate cleaning off the car in the morning. Guess I'd better dig out my heavy coat.

I did finally go this evening to get new wiper blades. I figured I had better take care of that before we get a lot of snow. I actually needed new ones last winter and kept putting it off. I'm such a slacker. AutoZone was having some kind of sale, so I got a set of winter blades for less than $10 when I was expecting to have to pay over $20. w00t! I'm glad I decided to drive that little extra distance rather than stopping at the Advance that is closest to home. I actually used to work at that AutoZone a few years ago, but it's been quite a while since I set foot in it. I didn't recognize a single employee in there and the store didn't even really look the same. That was a little weird.

I had to stay late again at work this evening. We have so much work to do this week. Lots of clients were promised proofs before Thanksgiving and I'm not sure they're all going to get done. I can't stay late tomorrow, though. I've got pumpkin pies to bake and food to prep for Thursday. Besides, my whole shift on Thursday will be OT, so it'll be good if I don't stay. I wonder which supervisor is covering that day — I totally forgot to ask. I may regret agreeing to work depending on who it is.

Man, we had some wicked weather here last night! Right about the time last night, the wind whipped up and rain came down so hard it stripped leaves off of trees and I couldn't see my neighbor's trailer. It knocked our satellite reception out for about a half hour. Made me miss the end of "How I Met Your Mother." Grrrrr. Oh, well. There was significant street flooding around town and several tornado warnings. It let up after about an hour, but rained steadily for most of the evening. It was so freaking humid today because of it. Ugh. At least tonight was calm and let me watch the Gilmore Girls series finale. I'm really pissed that Rory turned down Logan's marriage proposal last week. I'm sure that is just some of my own issues from college rearing its ugly head, but it was still lame.

So, the weather people have been salivating all week over a storm we were going to get hit with Thursday into Friday of this week. "We're getting a foot of snow," they said. Yeah, a little flurry action yesterday around 1 pm and then nothing. I am glad (even though I skipped the shower this morning to be able to leave early since I'm sure the drive will be a little more crowded than usual). I know Marcus was really looking forward to getting dumped on, but I just wasn't in the mood for it. Thank you for tracking to the South, April Snowstorm, it is much appreciated!

I've had it with snow. I don't want to drive in it anymore. I'm tired of weather people making stuff up. Where are you Spring? How cruel that you tempted me with warm temperatures and melting snow just a few days ago and then make me scrape windows and take over an hour to get to and from work today. I'm tired of how stupid it makes other drivers. The snow is still here from mid-December. It's Denver...that is so rare here. I want to get my Christmas lights down. Is that all so wrong?

OK, as promised...there are photos from this morning over in the Holiday Blizzard 2006 gallery. Dave came over and he and Marcus are out traipsing around town to see what's going on. My cramps are yucky today (they always get worse when it gets cold), so I may spend the afternoon on the couch curled up with a heating pad.