It’s getting bad in here. School was dismissed early on Monday due to the oncoming ice storm, and we’ve been largely trapped at home since then.
Thank goodness, we can actually drive around now, but the kids being out of school and the roads a little questionable has led to
TOO
MUCH
TOGETHERNESS.
Also, I’m now pretty much bald due to chemo, and I resent the hell out of fact that I had to lose my nice warm mane when the temps are dipping into the single digits. Not fair!
Someone needs to do something to make it warm and ice-free and make my kids not be buttholes! Everyone give me a harrumph!
We’re getting a bunch of days off here, too. On the one hand, I’m a teacher, so I’m getting to sleep in… but on the other hand, I’m specifically a substitute teacher, so I’m not getting paid, either.
I seem to recall that you live in the same general area that I do and I feel your pain (minus the baldness). I have been home with my 9 month old son the past few weeks while in between jobs. I thought having my daughter home too would make it a little easier as she could watch him for short stretches, but she has mainly been bored and surly to the point of negating any helpfulness. Yesterday I started texting my wife lines from The Shining. She left work as soon as she could.
My dogs are fighting over sleeping on top of and standing on top of me. I am fighting to be free of dog butts. My one dog can’t go out alone because he learned how to climb fences, and the other one is a total freeze baby, so I have to escort the boy outside and stand there and call the girl until she comes out to do her business.
My husband is a teacher who came down with a bad cold right when the crappy weather kicked in. So his grumpy-ass self has been home all week as well, and probably would have been even without the weather complications. Plus the dog is bored and whiny.
Really glad I had work to escape to again these last couple days.
So sorry about the hair! My cut/color appointment was cancelled this week and so while my hair is still on my head, it looks like hell and all the cold dry air is making it static-y and wanting to stick to my face, which is annoying. (BTW, a friend of mine finished up her chemo awhile back and her hair is growing back now. Her stylist has given her a very chic new 'do and she looks absolutely terrific. Something to look forward to for later.)
We’re not home, but I kind of wish we were. Today the temperature is zero F and with windchill it “feels like” -15. And it is windy. I know, I know people in MN or wherever would love this! I don’t care, that’s why I don’t live there. It be coooooold.
“bored and surly” is the perfect description of my kids, especially the 11yo! I love that your wife hopped to it before you went looking for a croquet mallet.
I appreciate the sympathetic comments about the chemo/hair from everyone. I’m glad it’s just temporary, even if the timing sucks. Also grateful that a friend made me a fleece hat that snugs down around my ears and is nice and toasty, I have another fleece hat styled like R2D2, and I knit myself a Jayne hat last month, with plenty of wool content.
Today my mother took the kids and will keep them all day, and I got to go to work, which on the whole has been wonderful, even if I had to be outside briefly.
I for one have lived in Minnesota and upstate NY, and have had enough of weather where your tear film freezes as soon as you step outdoors to last a lifetime. I understand why some people tolerate it, but loving it seems a bit much!
Harrumph for the school district which has had a 2 hour delay I think every morning for the past 2 weeks. It’s hard enough getting teens to bed/rousting teens out of bed on time as is and I do not need nightly “yes I can stay up extra late because they’re just gonna delay school again tomorrow!” We are officially the meanest parents EVER because we make them get up and go to bed at normal times.
Harrumph on my darling sweet daughter (age 14) who already thought I was the meanest parent ever because I wouldn’t let her go see 50 Shades of Grey because “but Mom it’s based on Twilight and you let me see those movies!” Also you’re the one who decided to wear thin leggings and just a jean jacket instead of your winter coat and jeans which is why you’re literally dying of frostbite. You told me to quit telling you what to wear, so you reap what you sow.
Harrumph on my beloved son, who called off his part-time job 3 days in a row because it’s cold and he’d rather become one with his Xbox, and lied to us and said his hours got cut. It was very nice of your boss to call and ask if you were feeling better, wasn’t it?
And a million harrumphs on my husband because he’s a contractor who does mostly roofing and windows which no one wants when it’s 0 degrees outside, so he’s loafing around on the couch with a blanket and cup of hot coffee every morning when I’m headed outside to my freezing car to drive 45 minutes to work :mad: Also shave off that damn scraggly beard already and put your coffee cup in the sink, instead of leaving it on the kitchen table a whole 3 feet away from the sink.
PS to Cinnamon, I hope you are well again soon and by next winter (cringe) you have your full head of nice warm hair back.
We don’t have kids but just going to work and back home is playing thin. Neither of us has been able to really go shopping or see someone else or anything. We aren’t at that axe through the door “Here’s Johnny” stage yet ------ but give it another week or so and all bets are off.
School started for the semester on January 21. Since that first day, I have had my Tuesday classes ONCE! The joke going around facebook now is a welcome to Massachusetts sign that says “Closed Mondays”. It’s not just friggen Mondays. I’ve probably made close to 100 phone calls just letting people know that Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday dog training is cancelled. I have two clinical days that I have to make up. My internship started a week late. We were supposed to just have a test yesterday but instead we had a lecture to make up for one missed Tuesday class and THEN we had a test and then I had my internship so my brain is still trying to recover now. I almost got taken out by an 18-wheeler because I didn’t see him coming due to a snow bank at the Taco Bell exit. I had to pull out so far to see if he was there that I had about 2 seconds to get out of the way once I did see him. I’m averaging about 2 gallons of water per day dripping into my spare bedroom from the icicles plastered to the side of my house and I have about 10 tons of snow and ice on my roof. When it’s not warm enough to snow, it’s -20 without the windchill. My sister in Virginia got 3" of snow and the whole state shut down. She sent me pictures of their “blizzard”, specifically because it would annoy me. I lost my keys right before the first snowstorm. I suspect I’ll find them in July. I can’t open my tailgate because my dashboard button is broken and my fob is under about 7’ of snow.
I love New England. I love winter. I hate the heat. I am ready to move to Florida. I have had enough.
At least I don’t have kids. If I had kids, I’d probably be in a mental hospital by now.
Despite the heaps of negativity in my last post, I am actually a very happy person. Know why? Because my new bed is being delivered tomorrow!!! I’m going from a horrible pillow top queen that I have hated for 16 years to a king size memory foam. My fiance didn’t even touch a mattress until I gave it the ok - as a way of apologizing for buying the current mattress without my input (granted we had only been dating a month when he bought it but he still could have asked how I felt about soft beds). Best of all is that there will be enough for all 5 of us (3 dogs, 2 humans). Oh and my Sweetie is a genius so when we bought our new bed frame 5 years ago, he made sure it was adjustable so a quick move of the side rails made our queen frame a king!!
Meh, up here in Maine, we have, on average, 4-7 feet of snow, lower on the flats, but higher due to drifting, and as far as snowdrifts from plows? 7 feet is small
Yes but are you talking over the course of a whole winter or 2.5 weeks? We had no snow at all before January 25 and have had no real accumulation in at least 5 or 6 days. I don’t mind a winter with lots of snow. I mind when it all comes at once, to the tune of over 100" accumulation (not drifts or from plows) and shuts my whole life down.
I refuse to harrumph. I’m only 35. I’d rather use some colorful metaphors.
Oh my gawd it has been insane. We have a manual treadmill (the one that isn’t electric, just powered by your own movement) and the other day I put my three year old on it and used one foot to move the belt so she could friggen run around for a bit and stop her from being a jerk. She has been stuck inside for so long she is losing her mind and it makes her super cranky. Today she looked out the window at the 9 feet of snow (we are just outside of Boston) and said, “Mama, can we go on a campout? Or a picnic? Or just something outside, pweese?” Poor kid.
“bored and surly” is the perfect description of my kids, especially the 11yo! I love that your wife hopped to it before you went looking for a croquet mallet.
