Wicked Winter

Well, Amanda,

I'm enjoying the crap out of these snow days now--we had another today, and it looks like we're getting another storm on Friday-- but we'll see how I'm feeling at the end of June. We were scheduled to be out early since we don't have February vacation, so it could be okay, but it is only mid-January. And if we get that storm Friday as predicted, it will be 4 snow days in two weeks, with months of winter yet to go. But I'm not going to worry about that now. Right now, I can't help but think The board of ed tooketh away my vacation, and the good lord taketh it back for me, one day at a time. So there! Who's in control now? Ha!

I enjoyed my extra-long weekend, partly because I knew (somehow) that it would be extended by bad weather and would be four days, not three, and partly because I changed things up. I went grocery shopping Friday after school so I had more time to hang out on Saturday (with Chinese takeout--finally!), and after doing my laundry Sunday morning, I went clothes shopping (great deals at L&T and Talbots!) instead of cooking (saved that for today) before the game. Yesterday I went out for a grown up lunch with my friend M and a friend of hers, and that was a real treat:  three courses, two glasses of wine, and two and half hours of conversation. Today I made chili and did a few projects, including a freezer purge, and now I'm relaxed and ready to go back to school tomorrow for the rest of the week--be it 2 or 3 days.

Other than that I'm trying to plan a weekend in Boston with W, this weekend or next, and if my hot mess sister could make a decision about when to have my nephew's 18th birthday and keep it, well then I could make those plans. Obviously I could miss the party, but I'd rather not. However, if she keeps changing her mind every other day, I'll be forced to make a decision separate from hers.

So that's my story. What's yours?

Love you,
Barb