Anatomy of a Snow Day

Warning: Sometimes I'm just an overgrown child.

Well, all my careful snow prep did not pay off immediately, but Wednesday, I enjoyed a true rarity: a snow day. There are two times in life when I regret my decision to not become a teacher. One is during the summer and the other is on a snow day. My work never closes. I shouldn't say never. Since I showed up in 1996, they've closed once. I think it was four or five years ago - on Valentine's Day, actually. And then...this week. Since it's so rare to get a snow day, I decided to document the occasion. Enjoy.

12:35 a.m. - Received text that campus would be shut down for classes and business. Praise the Lord. (Not kidding. Praise fest IN BED.)

5:30 a.m. - Woke up, turned off the alarm so as not to be bothered by it later. Also wandered into the kitchen to turn off the auto-start on the coffee pot. No need for coffee until MUCH later.

9:30 a.m. - Awakened by phone call from the place I was supposed to be that night to take a cupcake class. No class. Good. Can't get there anyway. Decided I should probably think about getting up. But first...morning chat with Braeya...

...and then Kaegan took his turn.


10:30 a.m. - Finally got up. (It's a process, people. Don't judge me.) Restarted the coffee pot and fixed breakfast. Warm pumpkin bread with butter and a fabulous mug of coffee. Life is good.
11:00 a.m. - Devos!! It seems I've been writing in my prayer journal every day that I wish I could stay home and enjoy extended moments with the Lord. So I figured since He gave me a day off, I should do just that. Instead of reading my Bible and devos in my normal spot, I relocated to the fireplace. (The coffee is on top of the fireplace because a furry little someone would stick her face in it if it happened to be on the floor...but I won't mention names, Braeya!)


12:00 p.m. - Cuddled up on the couch to read...determined to finish one of the books on my reading list!! And no, that's not a Snuggie. It's a regular old blanket.

12:45 p.m. - Decided to be a responsible adult and go outside to start shoveling. After this much work, learned that shoveling snow is one thing. Shoveling a multi-layered cake of ice and snow is - NOT WORTH IT.
1:00 p.m. - Decided, instead, to take pictures. Much less strenuous. Ohh...for the warmer days...

...and the dreams of planting flowers....

1:30 p.m. - Got kind of hungry - so I warmed up some lunch and popped in a movie someone at work had loaned me. Not at ALL a Renee Zellweger fan, but was peer pressured into giving the movie a shot.


3:00 p.m. - Paused the movie long enough to go out and salt the snow. That's a new one for me. But someone on Facebook suggested it as a possibility to chop through the snow and make it shovel-able. (Feel free to use that word.)
3:30 p.m. - Went back outside (after finishing the movie) to check on the salt's progress. Not as helpful as I'd hoped, but I did discover that if I pounded at the snow with my shovel to break it up, I could at least move it. Of course, after about 20 minutes of that, my arms were aching and I couldn't feel my fingers, so I gave up.
4:00 p.m. - Made my own frappe and watched Oprah - because I could.
4:45 p.m. - Lost interest in Oprah's last guest and abandoned the show in favor of more reading. Finished the book!!
5:15 p.m. - Another round of chopping snow so it could be shoveled off the walk. Put out another round of salt over the parts too frozen to even be chopped. Declared this the worst shoveling EVER. Even worse than the year it was way over a foot deep.
6:00 p.m. - Dinner and two episodes of Dharma and Greg (one of my favorite sitcoms of all time). Also gave in and called a plow to do my driveway. Dinner, by the way, concluded with: 7:00 p.m. - Guilt gut won out over the desire to be lazy, and I went back out to finish chopping snow so I could subsequently shovel it. My thoughts on that: 8:00 p.m. - Snuggled in on the couch to watch Airline (love that show!) and check my email. I just want you all to know how much I love you to post the worst ever pictures of myself! LOL!!! See how Braeya likes to watch Airline with me too? (Kaegan spends most of his day in my bed...that's why he's not in these pictures.) 9:00 p.m. - Put in the other movie loaned to me (A Good Year...Russell Crowe...didn't get into it) and did some hunting online for future vacation ideas.
10:30 p.m. - Gave up on the movie and got on the mini-stepper to make up for the snack I ate. :) The workout music of choice? Let Freedom Ring Homecoming. I know. I'm weird.
10:45 p.m. - Snowplow showed up! I can get out now! THANK YOU MR. SNOWPLOW MAN!!
11:15 p.m. - Final activity of my snow day? Scrapbook page to chronicle it.