Random Thoughts....

Today - I got nothing. I think Ten on Tuesday was 10 Favorite Children's movies and you know what - generally I hate kids movies. Even the ones that say - no there are funny, subliminal adult things in this one - you'll love it! I usually don't, in fact my most hated kids movie - Finding Nemo. I know - I must be the only person in the world who hates Nemo. Hubby thinks there is something wrong with me because my favorite type of movies are the sad, gut wrenching depressing ones. Like Leaving Las Vegas ( LOVED IT!), just watched Gone Baby Gone and I very much enjoyed it. And I am not a depressed person - I can be quite chipper so who knows what is rattling around in my head. I have been busy watching UCONN basketball - both men & women and both are ranked #1 this week which is pretty cool. It snowed again - big deal except it took me over 1.5 hours to get home - usually a 30 minute commute. It is the kind of snow that sticks to the trees so it is very pretty. But I took Carole's advice and last night bought some tulips to remind me that spring is coming...someday. This photo of tulips is Carole's as well - she does beautiful work- go check out her blog!

So enjoying the snow but looking forward to spring as well. Ok - gotta got to work....I'm getting better at blogging from home - if I can get Hubby of the dang computer...

It's gonna snow ....again....

Ok - I must admit some of the luster of 3-7 inches of new snow has worn off. That is what they are predicting for us, starting between 1:00-4:00AM and continuing on thru rush hour. The drive in won't be too fun as people in CT get totally freaked out about driving in the white stuff. As a matter of fact - someone was practicing this morning and had a big nasty wreck off the Argonne Bridge in Middletown - on the side of the bridge I was trying to cross over to. So - traffic was backed up for about 1/2 an hour. I was all zen about it - I had my knitting so I just sat there and knitted and waited and knitted. At least I got to work and I wasn't part of the wreck. I'm sure the snow part will be pretty - but then they are predicting possible freezing rain or sleet for the drive home - that will be really fun. This is the part about winter that isn't so fun - being on the road with people who get freaked out about being on the road or drive way too fast and think they will be fine because they drive 4 wheel drive. Speaking of which - Hubby almost went off the driveway coming home from the gym this morning because he was a) driving too fast and b) he didn't have his 4 wd vehicle in low. But I got to tell him what to do and he really listened, unlike this time and yes I was smug and believe I said "I told you not to drive fast down this driveway". I earned it - I grew up driving in the snow - he grew up in Florida.

This week's Ten on Tuesday is my Ten Favorite Articles of Clothing You Own. I hate to shop for clothes but - in no particular order:

1. My leather jacket - I do like this. It is big and roomy, a man's jacket & I heart it.

2. Jeans - I own one pair I really like and a couple of others I'll wear but don't love.

3. Sweat pants - have always loved them and have a nice collection from when I worked from home.

4. Sweat shirts - I like to buy them when we travel. When i was on the road for work in South Carolina I bought Hubby one from the University of South Carolina - their mascot is the Gamecock and the shirts has COCKS across the front. I loved it - he won't wear it.

5. A long sleeved Miami Dolphins t-shirt - a new fav I bought at Thanksgiving. I plan on wearing it this Sunday to Training Buddy's Super Bowl bash.

6. A teal & orange tie dye Dan Marino #13 t-shirt - it was Hubby's but I snagged it from him.

7. Hiking socks - heart the thick, wooly ones. I started knitting a pair about 5 years ago and have one almost done.

8. My Birks - shoes count for me because I love love love me the Birks.

9. A silk teal/blue jacket - it's pretty cool for work clothes but I don't wear it much because it's dry clean only & I hate taking clothes to the dry cleaner.

10. Flannel jammies - oh so comfy and warm - I have several pair.

Oh what a beautiful morning.....

It has been well established on this blog that I heart snow and last night we got about 8 inches of the stuff. What was really fun about that was, because we watched zippo local news yesterday, we woke up this morning totally shocked that it snowed at all. It snowed a little bit off and on yesterday and we knew that was going to happen but still. This is what the driveway looked like today, on my way to work.

And another awesome ever so awesome surprise awaited me thanks to Shana at So Not Zen. We didn't have the effortless hook-up of DSL over the weekend as promised by AT&T ( I could have told them it wasn't going to be easy, they are sending someone out to the house to check it out - ha! See driveway picture above, this should be interesting) so I did not have Internet access all weekend. On Friday, Shana awarded me this :

And to quote The Barefoot Contessa - How cool is that????? Really - I let out a little scream because this my very first blog award - thanks Shana for totally making my day! And I don't even care about the grammar but someone I'm going to award it to will. So now the hard part - I need to pass it on to 10 people. And then they pass it on to 10 people. When you pass it on you need to: post it to your blog and link to me, then link to the 10 blogs you're sending it to, then comment on those 10 blogs to let them know you did it. I don't read a lot of blogs but I will go ahead, at the risk of rejection, pass it on to the following blogs that I do read. These are some smart, talented, funny women and I do enjoy reading their blogs so go check them out! And Shana - if I could I'd include you on this list - thanks again!

June

Maryse

Carole

Steph

Floribunda

Frankie

DPUTiger

Chris

Tosca (her Mom helps her blog I suspect)

Melissa

A good blizzard story..

My half marathon training buddy sent me a link to this web site, Garden Rant that is having a snow blower give away contest. Instead of randomly choosing a number, they are looking for the best blizzard/heavy snow storm story. And hell ya - I got one of those! But I'm not going to tell it here - it really is too long to re-type so you'll have to go here and read it in the comments section. I will add the end of the story on my blog so go ahead and read the first part, then come back to my blog.

Funny , huh? Ya that night was a laugh a minute. Somewhere I have a disposable camera with a picture of hubby trying to dig the ditch which I remember fondly taking just so "I can show people how stupid you are trying to dig this damn ditch!". I believe those were my exact words too. So fast forward to our arrival at our apartment after the long, death defying drive home in which we did not speak to each other for over an hour. I came in the apt. and immediately called my Mom to tell her I was over it, I was going to leave my then fiance, I'd had it. I wanted a drink but in CT the liquor stores close at 8:00 and we just missed the deadline. I was so stressed. I was in our bedroom trying to decide the best way to leave and crying to my Mom, who was concerned as she was over 3,000 miles away and really could do nothing. ( I tend to do that to my poor Mom, I called her when I thought our house was burning down too but that's another story). Anyhow - the last person I wanted to see knocked on the bedroom door - but he had an apple martini in his hand. So I thought, OK maybe this will work out. I grudgingly took the drink & noticed little clouds of something floating in the drink - I tried to pick one out to discover it was..... BACON GREASE! He had washed the glasses in the dishwasher with a pan we used to fry bacon ( even though I told him a BAZILLION times not to) !!!!!!! I then started to ball, like with snorts and everything and my poor Mom was going "What's wrong?? WHAT"S WRONG??" I managed to choke out I .....have.....snort ...sniff .. snort...BACON GREASE IN MY MARTINIIIIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!! And her wonderful reply, comforting from 3,000 miles away was "Good God, drink it anyway it's not going to kill you". So I did and it didn't. And me and that wonderful martini maker got married a couple of years later because we survived that so why not try marriage.