SUPERBOWL! SUPERBOWL! I like the superbowl because it usually means a party, but this year I am beside myself because the Pats are in it! Talk about rooting for the underdog, though. I am on a few mailing lists with people from all over the country, and people just don’t want to root for the Pats, even if they hate the Rams. How can that be?
Author: The Jody
In the great “shovel or not?” debate, I am kind of not shovelling right now. It’s raining like heck, and it’s starting to ice up on everything, so some part of me thinks it just a teeny bit safer to have a bit of snow under the ice cover.
But at least we still have heat and electricity here. I saw pictures of Oklahoma and, well, wow. Ice is forming on stuff, but it’s not too thick. I will keep an eye on our birch trees and move the van if they start bending. I heard it’s pushing 50 in Boston, but we here 35 miles away aren’t so lucky. I’m guessing it’s 30 or so right now.
We didn’t get the 7 inches of snow they were predicting, and I can’t say I’m all that sorry about it. I know some people would only be happy with two feet of snow but I’m not one of them. It’s pretty icy out. I’m not going to leave the house until it warms up a little. Mookie will just stay here with me today. He’s soooo sad about it. Poor kid, he’s running around the house just having the best time.
I know I have to leave the house today because I’m in charge of bringing the chip/dip type foods to the Superbowl party. Can’t have a party without onion dip, can you? I think I’ll also make some of that Hidden Valley Ranch dip we first had at T&D’s Christmas pah-ty. I guess that means I need to buy carrots and broccoli and stuff too. Hey, they are veggies, they count, right? I’m going to try to be good, because I’m down another two pounds. I think that puts the total at 7 pounds from just before Thanksgiving. I want to do the last 3 pounds REALLY badly, because man, losing 10 pounds just sounds SO cool.
Oh, and I fixed the links on the left. You can thank me later.
I’m still upset about the Whalom Park thing. Bastards. Man, I wish I’d had the money, I would have bought the park. I had some great ideas for it, and even shared them with Allison Bowen, who was trying to get some people together to buy it. So sad. I actually drove by it this morning, and saw that another of the rides is gone. I don’t know how fast or slow this stuff is going to happen. Poor Mookie. No more local rides for him. I’m glad we got a picture or two of him on rides there; there are some in my mother’s album of ME on a rocketship ride, and also on a ride that I think was something like little horses pulling the cart you sat in. If I can find it, maybe I’ll scan it in.
Oh, and to top it off, I also went to Learning Express because my mother just told me yesterday that the one in town is closing up. So we went there this morning and there was basically empty. I mean, nothing much worth buying. Well, there was one thing and it made it all worthwhile for me, but all the Thomas stuff was gone, and I was wondering if they just shipped it off to the other stores instead of selling it for 50% off. Apparently the sale has only been going on for 2 weeks, so to have almost nothing left seemed odd to me. I’m sure they moved a lot of the more sellable stuff to Acton or the Solomon Pond Mall.