Snowier Day Than Expected

At first this snow day was supposed to be a 1-3 inch event. No big deal. Then yesterday some weather guys were upping the top number to five or six. So Russ left town late last night to fly north for an important meeting that takes place tomorrow. That should have been the sign for me that this was going to be a much bigger snow. In the almost 25 years we have lived here Russ has missed practically every big snow.

My trainer has told me if there was any snow that she would not be in. I awoke to no snow so I texted her and she said to come work out. I was one of three people at the gym. We all were kind of laughing about why no one else had come, but then the snow started half way through my work out. Consequently I was my trainers only client today as she was going to leave after I did.

I had twelve people planning on coming to my house for Mah Jongg and lunch today. The perfect thing to do in the snow, that is as long as you can get here and you are not leaving young kids at home alone. Well the 12 got down to five. One walked through the snow with an American Girl Doll umbrella. One had her son drop her off and the others came together in a Suburban. It was a better thing to do than sit around and watch the snow pour down and think that you should make hot chocolate and grilled cheese.

After everyone had won and eaten cilantro chili lime shrimp salad they departed the way they had come except now two walked home. I put Shay’s new coat on her and out we went to get the mail, frolic with her friends Harry and Winston and do an initial shoveling of the walkway and brushing off of the cars. I measured what we had gotten then and it had passed the six inch mark. I knew it was premature to do that work because when I went out an hour later there was a new inch and a half on the cars.

Trying not to succumb to snow day food I made myself another salad for dinner and sat down to watch TV. That plan was a no go as the cable and the internet were out. Russ had told me to download some shows on my IPad, but I must not have done it right because they won’t play either. My back up to my back up plan is to watch some DVD’s. Thank goodness we still have some old fashioned players, as long as I can figure out how they work. At this point I am praying the snow actually stops and I make it through one movie without hot chocolate.