Monday, February 26, 2007

Snow: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Or, Thank God It Finally Got Above Freezing)

As promised, here are the photos of our snow storm from two weeks ago.



Here's Trent coming in from the snow. In the four years we've had him, this was the first time he's seen snow too deep for him to run around in.



This is the snow coming down the evening of the blizzard. Living in a subdivision, our roads were not the main priority to be plowed. As you can see, there is already more snow on the ground than we normally see all year.



Yes, that is a snow drift up to the window of my Saturn. And this was parked next to the house. There was a higher drift right where the sidewalk should have been. Lucky for me, some good Samaritan with a bigger snow blower cleared the walk for us and the neighbor. Our snow blower was not big enough to blow the snow over the snow drifts so we were looking at doing it by shovel. Thanks again, Neighbor.





Ah. Nothing like digging out a place for the dog in the back yard. Trent was traumatized. He couldn't find any grass or figure out why all the white stuff took up all his space. And those bar things sticking up out of the snow? That's an old lawnmower DH was getting rid of.

Naturally, the temps here (finally) went back up to the 40s and 50s, so most of this is all gone. You know, you almost kind of miss it. Especially when you're left with the nasty dirty stuff.

Hmm. This last picture doesn't want to post. I'll keep tinkering with it, but I think you'll get the idea anyway.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Yes, now it is my mom's birthday. Well, actually Monday was. Yes, I actually mailed her card on time, but with President's Day, it was still late. Pffbt. Some days you can't win for losing, I guess.

I had a doctor appointment today. I've been bad. I gained weight, my blood pressure's up and my blood sugar is up. Is it any wonder I have a terrible craving for a fudge brownie sundae? Pffbt.

We were socked with a minor blizzard two days before Valentine's Day. I only say minor because we only got 17 inches, plus the four foot drifts. People in New York will have no sympathy for us here in Indiana. Still, I'll try to post some pics soon. We don't get many snow days anymore, so in some ways it was kinda fun. One of the newscasters actually said, "It looks like a lot of people's Valentine's Day will be snowed in. I wonder what people will do?" I thought the other newscasters were going to lose it. I guess he'll find out in about 9 months when he's covering the sudden baby boom.

And yes, in case you were wondering, DH and I had a nice V Day. He brought me a pair of roses and a box of candy and we did the going out for dinner thing a few days later when the roads were safer. The actual day was more like Casual Valentine's Day, Pre-Valentine's Day. Nice and relaxing. We don't go all out and since we're both kinda quiet, we try not to get too hung up on things. I mean, this is the guy who's idea of picking me up a little something is to bring me a box of my favorite Pop Tarts. He keeps me sane and grounded. *Sigh*

Let's see - what else has been going on? I gave the dog a bath and haircut, but I'm sure no one is really interested in that. Until I think of something reasonably interesting to add, that's all for now. Pics will be coming soon!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Happy Birthday, Dad!

*Sigh* In typical me fashion, I'm late. Yesterday was Dad's birthday. Don't worry. I did call - twice in fact. His card is late, his gift is late and even this post is late.

Even though he said it was fine, I feel terrible about it. Don't you hate it when you do stupid stuff to the people that mean the most to you?

So with a healthy dose of deeply ingrained Catholic guilt, Happy Birthday, Dad. Just celebrate all weekend long. You know, to include us slackers.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Movie Review: Black Dahlia, The Gridiron Gang, Invincible & The Illusionist

I had a coupon so DH and I went nuts and rent FOUR movies. Woo-hoo!

The results were 50/50. I really didn't like the Black Dahlia. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. By the time the murder was solved, I didn't care and was distracted by more than one ick factor. I'd hoped it would be better.

The Gridiron Gang is the latest with the "Rock". DH likes him and I think he's entertaining to watch. The man has some white teeth. It was ok.

Invincible was with Mark Wahlberg. Despite taking place during the '70s, it was pretty good. Two football movies - can you tell it was Super Bowl weekend? And this from two not real huge football fans. Anyway, I think I'm really getting burned out on the feel-good sports movies. And according to the previews, there are at least two more coming out. Ugh.

Finally, we saw The Illusionist with Edward Norton. This was by far my favorite of the bunch. A period piece, magic, and a twist at the end? Loved it.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Time to air out the place

New post: I'm sick of the last one being the first thing everyone reads when the come over here. I don't know about you guys, but I think it's depressing as hell.

I'm doing all right. I'm sleeping a lot more, and frankly that's better than stressing out. Stress is hell on my stomach. Hopefully the things causing the stress will be over in a few weeks and I can more or less get back to normal. And the sleep is probably a good thing, since before I was existing on about 5 hours a night and then crashing on the weekends. You know how it is. First one up, last one to bed and not enough hours in the day.

On to happier thoughts. I just picked up the the JAK novel "White Lies," which I'm dying to get into. Thing is, I'm in the middle of another novel and I hate starting one thing up when I'm in the middle of something else. I get the characters all mixed up and end up with some pretty wacky dreams. Like a historical paranormal cowboy theme.

The novel I'm reading is "For Better or Hearse" by Laura Durham. It's a light amateur sleuth mystery and I'm enjoying it. I just got to the "I know who done it!" part, and wouldn't you know it, I had to go into work. I don't think they'd appreciate my being late even if the mystery was solved on the next page. I'll have to finish it at lunch. Then I'll dig into Jayne's new novel!

And that, folks, is the extent of my plans for the weekend. Have a good one.