Author: The Jody

Jeebus, what’s with all the white stuff? Is it too much to ask that we not get more than 4-5 inches of snow at a time, and make it that fluffy stuff please? Got up this morning and had to get rid of a driveway full of snow. It’s dambed windy out there so you get the joy of some of the snow blowing back into your face as you snowblow and/or shovel. I hate when that happens.

I can’t tell you exactly how much we got because it drifted all night. Some spots were up to my knees, and there was one area where you could almost see grass. Very odd. According to the only reports I could find, we got about a foot. That seems about right. And most of it dropped in a single hour.

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope the snow doesn’t screw up anyone’s happy holiday. We’re expecting 10-20 inches. I’m not a happy girl, but what are you going to do?

Off to mom’s for ravioli…

Santa has only three more gifts to wrap. I think everything else is all set. Now we just sit and wait. Actually, we decide if we’re going to the 4pm mass with my family (will The Boy and I burst into flames if we set foot in the Church?) and then do Christmas Eve at my parents’ house. And then wonder if we’ll make it out of the house tomorrow because apparently as a laugh, God is dumping a foot + of snow around here, starting at daybreak. Yea. That’s JUST what I wanted. Forget having lunch with my whole family, I’d rather stay here and try to figure out what to eat.

Do I risk going to the grocery store? No freaking way. It would have been busy enough with just the people buying last minute Christmas food. Now they’ll be buying storm food too. Oy, what a nightmare. Well, I have the staples here already, so if it’s horrible, we can have the traditional grilled cheese dinner. Mmmmmmmm. (NOT)

We started delivering the presents wrapped in the wrinkled up paper, and so far nobody has said anything about it. Then again, who is going to complain when they are getting a free gift? I wouldn’t, that’s for sure.

I’m very angry with the unemployment office today. I made my weekly call (or tried to) first thing this morning, thinking that if I got in early, I might get the check by noon on Tuesday. Got through the whole routine (and let me tell you, it’s a total pain in the arse, and take about 5 minutes of button pushing every week) and right when I was supposed to get my confirmation that I entered everything I needed to, I got a message that there was a problem with the system and I’d have to try again later. GRRRR. So I did…same thing happened. I’m SO done with that. I’m NOT calling again and going through everything to get an error message. Why not have that come up FIRST? Sheesh. So my weekly claim may be in, but I doubt it is. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.

Oh, ya, I forgot to mention, that wrapping paper is my internet wrapping paper. It has pictures of Santa’s computer, Santa on a cell phone, Santa taking pictures of Rudolph with a video camera. Text on the paper says “Click Here” “Boot Up” “Cyber Santa” and lists a couple of web addresses that seem to be owned by people trying to sell me things via pop-up, so I won’t include them here. It’s cute enough in person, but in that photo below it looks positively quaint!