Various Items of Interest (to me)

We finally had a fairly big snow in my part of New York on Friday. It snowed a minimum of 6 inches...which is fabulous. There was a enough snow so that Rascal, Reuben's new best friend, had to hop around in the snow. But what can he expect? He's a mini daschund. Very cute to watch. Unfortunately, no pics of that.









Here is my car all covered in snow. A little advice for those of you who don't do so already...if you put your wipers up before it snows the windshield is easier to clean off...and the added benefit is that if there is ice under that snow, you won't tear the delicate rubber off of the blades. Learned that trick from my dad.











Handsome Reuben in a snowy close-up.













Another beautiful Reu pic.



I might have more to share in the next few days...keep your fingers crossed!

First Snow!

I am happy as a proverbial clam...we had our first snowfall this morning! snow is one of my favorite things. It's crisp and white and puts a nice chill into the air. And it's right in time to make it feel like the holidays are actually on their way!

The unfortunate side is that later on we're supposed to get sleet and rain...nothing good can come of that...perhaps a 2 hour delay for school tomorrow morning, but not much else.

In personal news: I still have no voice...in fact it's gotten worse. I'm working at the library as I type this and I've had a number of people grin when I've tried to speak to them. Great.

Snow Day!

It's official! I got the automated phone call this morning at 5:33...I made Chris listen to it, too, just to be sure (and to rub it in a little bit). I am still in my pajamas as I write this. There is no chance I'm going anywhere today because I don't have to! Ha!

It's really more of an ice storm at this point. All that white you see isn't snow, it's slushy hail stuff that has been beaning me in the head when I

walk Reuben. He wants no part of this storm. He's all about snow, but freezing rain? Forget it.

FYI: I took these pics from my porch...I live on the second floor of a two family home and I have my own porch...pretty cool!

High Fiiiiiive-uh!

175.4...beautiful numbers compared to yesterday. I'm heading in the right direction and I'm thankful for that. I brought lunch again, I still have emergency oatmeal in my drawer, and everyone on my campus has their fingers and toes crossed for a snow day tomorrow. There has been conflicting forcasts, but they all agree on 1 thing: at least 3-5 inches of snow. We could use a snow day around here. The kids could use a day off, we could use day off, the school buildings could use a day off, the parking lot could use a day off...we're all hurting. It doesn't matter that we have all of next week off....we're snow day greedy.

There is just something nice about having a surprise holiday. It soothes the mind.

Where did the time go?

I have no idea how it got to be Thursday already and I haven't posted. Unbelievable. I guess I"ve got to catch all of you up on my goings-ons. This calls for bullets...again.

• Some of my co-workers are making me crazy. Especially the extra crazy one. The other co-workers probably wouldn't be so irritating if Looney Tunes was not so annoying...but oh well.
• I'm eating better than I did last week, but I'm still not completely on program. I just can't find my mojo. I have no motivation. I can't find an ounce of motivation in me, to be honest. I think I have to do some meditation this weekend to try and find it.
• The snow that everyone was talking about has been demoted from "storm" to "wet weather". I don't think we'll ever, ever have a snow day this school year. I've still got my fingers crossed for a 2 hour delay. I could use the sleep.

I think I'll be back later....only time will tell.