When I went to bed last night, there were two inches of snow on the ground even though it had been snowing for seven hours. Imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning and 25 more inches had fallen overnight! At 5:21 PM EST, there are 31 inches of snow on my deck. This is outrageous! (Oh, and the sun came out as soon as it stopped snowing! When does that happen?)
27 inches of snow when I woke up.
The snow was above my bedroom window. Granted, my bedroom is in the basement but the snow rarely comes up to the window.
I got snow on my ankles on the very first step outside. I thought they were bundled up nicely but the snow still got through (the snow was up to my thighs!).
A winter wonderland? That phrase doesn’t work so well after Christmas.
There was enough snow to make an igloo! It was a lot of fun.
You couldn’t even see most of the younger kids over the piles of snow.
First time I’ve ever seen those trees bent that far over. You can also see in this picture how windy it was – there was snow blowing all over the place.
Final count: 31 inches. We haven’t seen a plow since yesterday, I doubt I’ll be going anywhere any time soon.
What a convenient place to park your 18-wheeler! Never mind the fact that it’s hanging out into the road!
Miracle of miracles, look what the night dragged in,
It’s a pocket full of misery and trouble on the wind.
You spoiled the best years of your life, you took them all in vain,
Now you think that you’re forgiven but you can’t be born again.
And you say, “Why?”, you say, “Why?”, you say, “Why?”, don’t ask me why.
I don’t love you anymore, I don’t think I ever did,
And if you ever had any kind of love for me, you kept it all so well hid.
Promises, sweet promises, you kept them from your mind
Like all the lost forgotten things you never seemed to find,
Like all the disappointments you displayed upon your shelf.
Now you’ve got no-one to turn to, you’ve got no-one but yourself
And you say, “Why?” (Why, why, why, why?), you say, “Why?” (Why, why, why, why?)
You say, “Why?” (Why, why, why, why?), don’t ask me why.
Ashley and I made our “The Secret” boards tonight. I sort of made one last year when I hung a picture of an iPhone on my wall but I decided to update it for this summer. Here is my new board:
The contents of my board, in no particular order: 2009 Jeep Compass (driving my parents’ 2004 Liberty right now, need my own wheels!), MacBook Pro (my mother just got one for work – it is amazing!), the Eiffel tower as a symbol for a European vacation and learning French, and money…it makes the world go ’round! Also pictured is an iPhone 3G (put it on the board last July and guess what I got on August 21, 2008!), my Kathy Griffin shrine to the left, and a coupon to California Tortilla.
By Judy Stroud at Threadcakes.
The next two weeks are going to be so busy.
I’m (finally) taking my Driver’s Ed. course in the mornings from 8:45 – 12:00. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not mentally taxing (the teacher even said that you only need 20% of your brain to pass…), but it’s awfully early compared to when I’ve been waking up this summer and three hours is a pretty long time to just sit there.
Then, I have rehearsals from 7 PM – 11 PM. Granted, I have a 6-hour gap (allowing for travel time, etc.) between Driver’s Ed. and rehearsal, but it’s not a lot of time when you consider that I usually take a nap during that time and I have to work on my French and this and that and blah blah blah. When will I be able to loaf around and do nothing?!
And the worst part is that I only have seven hours to sleep between rehearsal and Driver’s Ed. the next morning (I doubt I’ll be able to come home from rehearsal and go straight to bed and I have to be up at 7 AM the next morning). I need my sleep!
Of course, it will all work out eventually. And I do enjoy being busy, so it’s really not that bad. Driver’s Ed. is only this week and next week and we go into tech next week for my show, so come next Saturday morning I’ll probably be bored out of my mind (until our evening shows, of course)!
Last night, I had my moment of validity, a.k.a. my “So Much Better” moment (if we can speak in Legally Blonde terminology)! I had been totally nervous and scared of messing up majorly for the show that I’m working on right now, but evidently I am doing a great job and not messing up majorly and burning the show down to the ground! I love moments like this (some people wait a lifetime! was that a bad music joke?). :]
I went out to lunch with Cara today and we had the best time. It was awesome for us to catch up on what was going on with each other and to spill the beans on some stuff that we had been holding in for way too long. I feel so much better about a ton of stuff now. We literally sat at Panera for four hours and just dished it to eachother and it was fantastic.
