Survived the storm

Well, I managed to travel safely too and from work. The forecaster, of course, indicated we would get 5-9 inches of snow and it would fall mostly while I was at work. I drove to work in moderate snow.

Then the storm hit. We got the 9 inches during the first four hours of the storm. And it was still snowing.

I should have just stayed home. ( I felt bad because I called out during the last storm. Apparently I forgot that I have 280 hours of PTO for a reason. Like if it snows, stay home.) Like the 5 smart people in my department who didn't come in at all. The rest of us were stuck leaving early and driving home during the worst of the storm.

I got to Mimi's house to pick up Jupiter and couldn't get the car in the driveway because the wall of snow at the end of the driveway was about as tall as the car itself. So I parked on the street with the hazard lights on and climbed through the snowbank. Snow got in my boots. Jupiter grabbed her coat and ran outside through the snow drifts. Her cough which is beginning to sound bronchitisy will undoubtedly appreciate that.

The wall of snow in front of my own driveway wasn't quite as tall as Mimi's; but it was tall enough. I sent Jupiter in the house and Elmo helped me shovel the driveway. I had to run to retreive the car from the street when the town plow came through. If we actually get the town plow and not some dinky contracted plow, you know its a real storm.

But we're home now and safe. I'm still chilled from being outdoors. But I get a chill anytime it's under 50 degrees, so I'll probably live. Jupiter is going to have a warm shower and I am going to fill up the humidifier in her room. The snow is falling less heavily know (naturally. If I had stayed at work it would still be coming down at 2 inches an hour) but the wind is picking up. I'm glad to be home before dark.

Jupiter will probably have chicken noodle soup for supper (again) and I will finish my veggie harira soup I made on Sunday to go with the sourdough baugettes. We will finish reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8, and with any luck will go to bed early.

My super extra nice terrific snowblower owning neighbor (technically he has custody of two snowblowers AND a teenage son) is widening my driveway now. I am thankful.

More snow on the way

Called out of work for the last storm, so I guess I should go to work tomorrow. I think now I wish I would have picked the last storm to work. Doesn't sound like going to work will be too bad, it'll be driving home that's the fun time. I wish it would snow on the weekend only.

Jupiter likely won't have school tomorrow and is happy about that. I'll be sitting on the cell phone waiting for the text notification that there is no school, because I have not packed her a lunch. Not that she eats it anyway when I do pack it.

Looking forward to shoveling tomorrow. Not!!

Homeade Bread

Yesterday I made sourdough baugettes.

A miracle in the fact that I managed to revive my sourdough starter from 5 solid months of negect.

Then another miracle happened.

Jupiter asked if she could try my bread.

Then she liked the bread!

As a rule, she does not eat anything I make from scratch, with the exception of pancakes.

Then she said she would only eat bread that I make from now on.

Yikes. That's a lot of baking.



sourdough baugette recipe: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/ultimate-sourdough-baguettes-recipe

Question of the Day

Is it possible to remove dried sparkly nail polish from hair?


update: sissors work. She wasn't too pleased with the hair removal. I did not cut more than I had too.

Natural consequences.

Overheard today

"Mom, when can I study history?"

(Mom)- Any time you want. What is it that you want to learn about? We'll look it up for you."

Pause.

"You know....Rudolph went down in history!"

Photopost Friday-Scenes from the Garden

alternative pay scales

Today at work, I decided I would like to get paid by the keystroke. If Charles Dickens was paid by the word, I don't see why it can't work, really. I wonder what a 1 percent raise would be in keystroke?

Three or four years ago, I remember wanting to be paid by the staple. But I don't staple anything anymore. The stapler is just a fancy desk decoration. I bought my own personal stapler because the stapler that came with my desk wouldn't actually staple anything.

Today I asked Jupiter if she had anything planned for my birthday tomorrow. Just so I would know if I had to bake myself a cake or anything like that. Jupiter said she wants to go shopping together for my birthday because the only time we get to go shopping together is to buy food. L But she doesn't actually want to buy anything for me for my birthday. She would be okay with buying things for her. She loves things. Any Things. It doesn't have to be anything in particular. Just a Thing. But before we got out of the car tonight she gave me a very nice heart picture today that she drew. :)

The moon is still a bitty crescent sliver.

It's COLD. It was about 30 degrees at 4pm this afternoon and the temperature had dropped 5 degrees before I got home. Sunny this afternoon...I found a sunny window at lunch and fortunatly today nobody came along and closed the shade on me. Because seriously, we get sunlight (if it happens to be sunny in the first place) for 6 hours a day right now. Why on earth would you want to close the shades and BLOCK the sun when it is out? I love sun.