Wow, lots of snow back there! None here, thank goodness.
Two my daughter’s friends stayed the night last night and are sleeping in our great room. This means I can’t make any coffee because the noise of the bean grinder will wake them up.
WANT COFFEE!
I say wake 'em up anyway, Taters! Coffee is more importatn!
Wake 'em up!
I have been a slug today. A total slug. Just feeling exhausted.
Big plans for tomorrow may involve going to the movies but they may not…
Just rain here in StupidParis…lots of but no snow = gooooooood!
Mr. Taters ended up making the coffee, so I now have a lovely cup of joe.
My daughter’s friends are still crashed.
Thank God for enterprising young men with snow plow trucks! Yes, it cost me a few dollars, but it was much better than having to shovel the rest of the driveway myself. 
Now I just have to worry about home where my mom’s car is stuck in the usual place about midway up the drive. Supposedly my dad is going to remedy the situation later on today. Unfortunately, it will probably be before that when I have to take my puppy home so I’ll probably have to park on the street and wade through the snow. Hopefully Bubba will either grow longer legs or learn how to snowsurf before then.
Well, since I last shoveled, less than 90 minutes ago, another inch has fallen. While Scruffy was just out peeing, I heard what sounded like a plow. Either that, or some idiot was trying to drive down the road and got stuck.
Second load is in the washer. Sloppy joes are all simmery and smellin’ yum. Lasagna is built and in the fridge, awaiting the oven tomorrow. I’m taking a break before attacking the slab roller assembly.
Taters, you’re nicer than I regarding kids sleeping. I don’t force them to stay up all night, they can’t force me to be quiet all morning. 
I forgot to mention - last night on the news, they were at a Home Depot that had sold out of snow shovels, so they were screwing a piece of plywood to a 2X2 and selling them for $5 each as “Better than nothing”!! Only in America!! 
I still hate snow.
Evening, Mumpers! How are you coping with all this snow? I just watched the news and they were reporting on the huge amount of white stuff you’ve got over there. I think we’re supposed to get some next week but not until Tuesday. Today was just cold, damp and miserable.
I have been productive though, I went into town to do errands this morning - went to the butcher’s to get some fresh meat, got my boots mended, bought a book, bought some oddments of wool and some needles so I can start teaching myself to knit, got a card and wrapping paper for ‘im indoors’ v-day present, bought something for one of our friends in Hungary for her husband’s birthday, got myself some plain hoop earrings because I need some to wear all the time after having to re-pierce one of my ears the other week…and I looked for a mandolin grater/chopper thing because he wants one but couldn’t find one anywhere. T’interwebz will be my friend for that one.
This afternoon I wrote letters to my penpals in Germany and Norway, and I have just done 40mins aerobics and yoga on the Wii. My reward will be a soak in a bath scented with some fancy fig and grape gel my Shiny Boss Lady gave me for hexmas.
After that, I am going to make Hunter’s Chicken á la Fat Club for dinner, and then watch The Hurt Locker 'cos it’s the rental DVD that came through the post the other day. I might even see if I have enough syns left for a glass of vino collapso. Well, it can’t hurt, can it?
By my reckoning, it’s falling about an inch an hour. I just shoveled for the dogs again. We’re under a blizzard warning for 8 more hours.
Stoopit storm.
Continuing with the exciting Saturday program: more shoveling, more buttons, more photo uploads (last round of back-up stuff, I think), lasagna and mandarin oranges for lunch (not mixed together thankyewverymuch), knitting. Some kind neighbor shoveled the very end of my driveway where the plow from the apartments across the street ever so kindly deposited a bit of extra snow last night (:mad::mad::mad:).
Mercifully, it appears that the snow has stopped. It’s actually pretty nice out.
Back later.
GT
I’m sorry for all y’all’s snow! When your enjoying lovely cool summers during our 100° Augusts, remember when Rebo was enjoying 65° and sunny on a Saturday in February. It finally quit raining! I took the pups out for a walk down the bayou. It has a nice gravel path, and we saw egrets and stuff. Very lovely!
Remember back when I got a $50 gift card because I complained about our food at Pappadeaux’s? Last night we decided to try again. It was a disaster. Service was very slow, as the place was packed. That was to be expected, since it was 6:30 on a Friday night. But, Jeez! We ordered a dozen oysters on the halfshell, as well as placing our order. The guy warned us “they only have one oyster shucker back there - it might be a while.” Ok, we said.
We had our salads, and proceeded to wait. In the meantime, it seems Dad got a little drunk on the wine, and knocked over his glass - which shattered all over the table. :eek: Then Tom and I proceeded to lose it because no one was coming to clean it up! Dad kept picking up shards of glass, and he’s almost deaf, and we were having to holler at him to leave it alone so he wouldn’t cut himself. I swear, it took almost fifteen minutes - with us yelling at various people, including the manager - to get it cleaned up! There was a wine spill on the vinyl floor and new customers being taken to their seats were in danger of slipping. Before it was cleaned up, the waiter brought our freakin’ oysters, and set it down on the glass littered table. Arrrggh! And Dad was all embarassed, and mad, because we were making a scene.
By this time we’re starving and we’ve been there for almost an hour (including waiting for our table.) I calmed down Mr Rebo and we ate the oysters. Pretty soon our food came out. They brought the wrong food for Mr Rebo and for me! Unbelievable!!! Dad’s was right, thank goodness. The waiter also brought Dad a new glass of wine. So we got the manager over there, and calmly told him that our orders were wrong.
He just about ran to the kitchen, and brought back what we did order. (I suspect it was sitting under the heat lamps.) Fortunately, it was very good. Or maybe it was flavored with hunger! 
We ate about half, and were stuffed. And then Dad knocked over the second glass of wine, and it shattered on the table. Oh. My. God. Fortunately, our waiter was very close this time. He got our plates and boxed them up, cleaned up the majority of the glass and mess.
By this time, we’re about forcing Dad to go outside and smoke, which is his usual habit. Tom went out with him, and to get the car, so we could get the hell out of there. I waited for the check to come back. Tom told me later that he tried to light his cigarette in the little closed in entryway, where people were coming in! (He knows you can only smoke outside.) Damn, he had a buzz.
I tipped the waiter $25 on a $100 tab, $50 of which we had a gift card for. I apologized profusely, and he seemed to be ok with it.
All in all, that might have been my worst restaurant experience EVER. Dad apologized to both of us this morning, and promised never to embarrass us like that again.
OK - rant over. <deep breath>
Seriously - all of you guys with blizzard warnings - stay warm and safe! Sounds like a three dog night for you. Be careful, and here’s hoping the power stays on!
Mwah!
:(:(:(My daughter is officially moved out. She just left with all her boxes. I didn’t think it would hit me this hard. It’s not like she’s moving across the country, but all the same, she’s still moving a distance away. I think it would have been easier if she was just moving across town or something.
Intellectually, I know this has to happen. Emotionally, I want her here. She was such a tiny thing when she was born. Hell, she still is. In my eyes, she’s still my little girl who loved the color purple and cats. My goodness, did she love cats!
She was going to make her bed before she left, but I told her not to, because I was going to wash all her bedding. I’m not in a big rush. Maybe I’ll get to it tomorrow.
Gnat does not have an Off button, Nava. Just warning you.
It’s been a nice lazy day. Tomorrow we’re going to and Argumentative Friend’s house for late lunch sans toddler, and I didn’t have to get up until eight. Good day.
Howdy Y’all! It’s my weekstart!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Hope the snow has slowed down MOOOOOOOM, gt etal. It’s just cool and dreary here. That’s February however.
Rebo yikes. I take it Pappadeaux’s is on the do not eat at list? Poor dad. Hope he’s over his embarrassment. I have a good friend whose mother knocks glasses over and spills drinks a lot. It’s not an intentional thing. I believe she has some form of dementia and also just cannot judge distances. She’s such a sweet lady too!
{{{Taters}}} I’m sure it’s tough seein’ the first Tot leave the nest but remember, y’all raised her right and she’ll be fine. So will you. Eventually.
Ok, off to, ummm… I dunno… find some chawklit, have an adult beverage, give OYKW a noogie? One of those things.
Oh, I know she’ll be fine, Swampy. I know I did the best I could by her and I’ve raised a fine, smart young woman. Doesn’t change the fact that I’m her Momma and it’s a little hard to let go.
Sheesh, I wouldn’t have thought I’d feel this strongly about it. Trust me, I was not a “helicopter” parent. I exposed her to stuff I felt she should know about in order to function in this world. I let her watch the news when she was little and explained the stories to her.
I had to let her learn a few hard lessons, when all I wanted to do was sweep everything under the rug and make it all better for her.
I know I’ll live. I’m not the only person who has ever gone through this, and there will be millions more after me.
It’s just another milestone in my life and hers.
We shoveled about 30’ x 6’ down the driveway. Took about half an hour. If we pace ourselves tomorrow, we should be able to get it done if we don’t see a guy with a plow.
I won’t be surprised if we’re off work on Monday. The snow is just about done now. Just saw a story on the news about a Catholic school near us - the roof of one section collapsed - 6 classrooms, a library, a computer lab, and some offices. A hangar at Dulles had its roof collapse, too. I expect more roofs will collapes before the thaw arrives.
Did I mention we’re supposed to get more snow on Tues and Weds? Oh yeah, that makes me happy…
Leftover pizza for supper. Knitting for the evening. Laundry is all done. Maybe we’ll get my table put together tomorrow??
Stoopit snow.
Wow, FCM. You guys are just getting slammed. Unbelievable.
Dayum. I guess I should call my mother, seeing as how she’s in DC and all… :eek:
I have been cold all day and am about to just give up trying to get warm, take a HOT bath and get into my polar fleece jammies. I haven’t been cold like this in months. Stupid “change of life” (menopause for those who don’t get out much). I was loving menopause because I was always warm (in fact I was hot, which I hate, so I hated menopause. Confusing? Not at all). But apparently I’m not in menopause today and am back to my old freezing self. :rolleyes:
I’m going to see Avatar tomorrow with #2 son whilst some much ballyhooed event occurs on TV. (I’m cheering on the Saints because if any team/city needed a victory, it’s New Orleans).
I had garlic cheese melts and a cookie for dinner. Such a role model I am!
rigs the way I see it, the garlic cheese melts will ward off vampires and the cookie was needed because of, well, garlic breath. See, there’s a way to rationalize it if you just look hard enough!
Oh and I’m cold too. However, there is a warm and furry human bein’ in da cave to help me get over that.
Taters I am a non-parent but I get what you mean. It’s hard to watch 'em get all grown up and gone.
I decided on some Hershey’s Kisses instead of an adult beverage or givin’ ol’ y’all know who a noogie. So, the Kisses were a good thing cause now I don’t have alcohol breath and OYKW is without pain. See? It’s a good thing!
They don’t have lovely cool summers where this storm has it, Rebo. Gaaaah, no. Now, I do. And I wish I’d gotten the snow instead. I guess I’m all backwards as far as weather goes.
Tomorrow I figure on being lazy. I’ll go into town to check on my aunt’s pups (I’m sharing dogsitting duty) but otherwise, I plan on doing nothing much.
we got nothing more than a coating - go figure - we ended up on the north end of the storm as it went out to see - so New England got nuthin’.
Today was my lazy day - I went for nappage around 11am and just woke up twenty minutes ago.