I grabbed a tape measure and stepped out into the back yard and measured approximately 8" of snow on the concrete slab and almost 9" of snow on the grass. I wanted to share some of the pictures that I have taken over the last few days!
Sunday the 15th
Tuesday the 17th
Wednesday the 18th
Thursday the 19th
I've had the news on just about all day long and it's been steadily snowing and they had originally said that we can expect about another 6 inches of snow! Snow is getting on my nerves...this is also the 4th day in a row that I have not worked!
Today is Wednesday. It's the middle of the week. It is supposed to be my third day of work this week. Sad to say I am home yet again! Here's how it has all gone down.
Monday 6am - Alarm clocks (yes...plural because I am so worried that one won't go off) go off. 6:30am - I am out of bed, putting on my make up and getting dressed to work in the office. 7:30am - I am informed to call a coworker to see if they even want me to come in...and this is after I have just left my house by getting a ride from someone else. 7:35am - Back at home 7:40am - Back in my PJs, curled up on the couch with a hot cup of coffee and start catching up on all the shows that I have missed lately. 3:30pm - Phone call comes in telling me not to come in the next day.
Tuesday 7:15am - Wake up...not to an alarm...and force myself to go back to sleep. 9:15am - Give up on trying to sleep 9:16am - Curled up on the couch in my blanket with coffee and watch MORE television. 3pm-ish - Phone call comes in telling me to come to work the next day in snow gear...only to be laughed at when I inform my coworker that I do not own snow gear. Why do I NOT own snow gear? Because I lived in New Orleans and the southern Oregon Coast for a combined total of 8 years or so...why would I have snow gear?!? 4:30pm - All bundled up, I proceed to "dig" my car out from under the eight inches of snow.
Wednesday (Today) 6:30am - Alarm goes off 7am - Second alarm goes off and I get up and add layers and layers of clothing. Socks, long johns pants, wool socks over the top of the socks and long johns, top off the bottom half of my body my one size too big jeans that fit just right. Tank top under long johns shirt under long sleeve shirt under work t-shirt, add scarf wrapped around neck then top off with sweatshirt and Columbia coat. 7:15am - All bundled up, I go outside to dig out my car AGAIN and start it to let it heat up. 7:35am - I give up on the idea of driving to work and get a ride in the jeep by my mom's boyfriend. 7:50am - Walk into work only to have my boss tell me that he was going to call me and have me come in later or maybe not even at all. 8am - Chugged a cup of coffee, smoked a cigarette with my boss and one of the mechanics, and dropped some Ice Melt on the pavement in front of the shop after my boss shoveled some snow. 8:15am - Boss gives me a ride home and I shed almost all of my layers.
Now I just sit here and wait to see if my boss wants me to come back in...not that I'm going anywhere because it has been snowing since I woke up this morning. I am not sure if I'll be going back to work today but if I do, I know that I won't be driving there!!! If I can ever get my pictures to show up in my email I'll post some pics of all this dang snow!
I am not a huge fan of snow and I have made it pretty damn clear that I do not like snow. I have no love for snow. My love affair with snow is non-existent! Here is a video clip of a crazy woman that has an entirely to friendly relationship with snow!
"Gilmore Girls" Lorelai's I Smell Snow!
Now this is how I normally feel about snow!
"Gilmore Girls" Lorelai's I Hate Snow!
But here I sit in my living room with a cup of coffee, curled up in a blanket on the couch, watching the snow flurries turn into a steady fall of larger flakes that turn back into flurries and then back into flakes. I do not have many memories of snow. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it may snow during the winter but it very rarely ever stuck around for any length of time.
The first memory of snow I have is around Christmas time when I was really little. We went to my great grandparent's house, snow was all over the ground and I had a horrible ear infection. Not that having ear infections was an uncommon occurrence in my childhood. The next memory I have of the snow is slipping on snow and ice on the small hill next to the garage behind our house. Bruised my tail bone and it hurt like hell for days!
My first time driving in the snow was in high school. I had to drive down a steep hill either direction I went with a stop at the bottom of one of the hills. Had I taken that hill there was a good chance that my little 1990 Oldsmobile would have slid through the stop, across the street, and stopped in the middle of someone's living room. Okay so the roads probably weren't that bad but I really did not enjoy driving in it. A five minute drive to school turned into like a 20 minute drive. I ended up calling into work and not going because not only would I have had to drive up a hill to get home but then drive down a hill that was winding all the way to the hospital but then had to take the same winding hill in the dark after I got off work and risk ice.
The last time I drove in the snow like this was in December 2004. The day after Christmas to be exact. One of my closest friends called me up and asked if I wanted to go to the movies. Well the nearest movie theater was an hour away so I said sure and lets grab lunch while we were there too. I got ready, ran into another friend in the hallway and asked if he wanted to go with us and he said sure! I finished getting dressed and looked out the window and it looked like I was looking into a snow globe. It was insane!
It took two hours to make that one hour drive because apparently they do not know what or believe in snow plows in North Carolina but dang as soon as we crossed into Virginia you knew it...because the highway was clear! Anyway on the way home I drove on an overpass on the freeway and hit a patch of black ice and spun my car. I did a 270 spin in the middle of the freeway. Managed to not hit the cement barrier or any other vehicles but I was pretty shaken. When we got onto the highway back to North Carolina, I said that we were going to stop at the Circle K and I was going to drink a large cup of coffee, eat a Hershey's bar and smoke a pack of cigarettes and then we'd be on our way. I did get coffee and chocolate but I did NOT smoke a pack of cigarettes...even though I wanted to!
Back in the here and now. I must say that I am truly hypnotized by the snow. I am not looking forward to work tomorrow since I got a phone call saying that I needed to bring snow gear...which I do not own. However the coolest snow memory that I could ever have would be getting a "first" kiss in the snow. There's this super cute and sweet guy that I have gone out with a couple of times and he lives about a half hour away and text me last night that he hasn't seen any snow. I told him to come up here and visit with me and he can see all the snow he wants! Should he show up then I am so hoping to at least get a kiss this time! I just want to know what if feels like to kiss him and if it could happen in the snow I would be okay with that! I hate being cold and I hate the snow but I would deal with it!
Okay now that I have completely taken this post in a direction that I did not plan or see coming I'm going to make some lunch, do a bit of cleaning and continue to marvel at the snow! Maybe I'll take a shower and make myself look pretty again just in case this super cute guy does come up here to visit me tonight! :D
I am a certified Zumba Fitness Instructor. I only have my certification in Basic 1. The gym that I work at has 4 (soon to be 5) Basic 1 instructors and 2 Zumba Gold instructors. Our Gold instructors have conflicting schedules so when one cannot make it to their class, the other cannot cover. That is where I come in. Even though I do not have my Gold certification, my gym asked me to cover if I can. Since I do not have the training, I just talked to the two who do and have come up with amazing workouts that everyone enjoys and is escentially Zumba Gold. I have been covering the Gold classes all month for one instructor who had to have ankle surgery.
Now normally I get slightly upset when I have to cancel a class due to no one showing up but today was different. It is because of the snow! It snowed ALL MORNING! When I woke up this morning I could not see the snow because my hubby has installed our new curtains. After he let the dogs out, he came into the bedroom and opened the blinds and told me that it had snowed just a little bit in the night. It was a very light dusting...and by light I mean there were just little spots that you could visibly see that wet, white stuff.
I got up, made some coffee and ate one of my yummy muffins for breakfast. While sitting on the couch and enjoying one of my shows on the DVR I just happened to look up and out the living room window. It looked like a snow globe outside! Big, chunky flakes were falling slowly to the ground. It was beautiful. I don't normally like it to snow around here. I like the snow and think that it is beautiful but I hate that it has to get that cold to snow.
It would shift from big flakes to some snow flurries to barely there snow flurries all morning until about 11:30am. We had a nice white blanket all over the yard and the street! I actually wanted to go outside and build a snowman but wasn't sure when my hubby had last cleared the dogs "land mines" from the yard. It wasn't until tonight that I thought I might have made one on the deck since there was enough snow to make a small one!
Look at that...I started off talking about Zumba (one of my most FAVORITE activities ever) and how no one showed up and that I think it had to do with the snow and the coming holiday but the snow side tracked me! It is not time for me to try and go to bed and get some sleep because I am just exhausted and have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Even though I have my class to teach tomorrow afternoon, I almost wish no one would come but on the other hand I want to stay afterwards for Group Power.
