Tonight we're going to get our first major snowstorm of the season. They say totals are going to be any where from 4 to 10+ inches. The "future forecast" shows that in my neck of the woods will be around six inches. Oh goodie.
I used my snowblower for the first time today. In preparation for this huge snowfall I figured I better know how to start and operate it so I can get out of my driveway and go to work (though I would much rather just stay in my house and read blogs, watch television and play games all day). I figured it out and effectively cleared my driveway (with it's less than two inches of snow pile up) in 15 minutes or less. God bless modern machinery.
I shoveled around 2.5 inches the other day and it took me around 30 minutes. Add this to my sustaining memories of HOURS of raking and bagging leaves. And the really horrible part is that leaves should only be raked one time (that is when your neighbor's tree doesn't dump all it's leaves until after your beautiful clean yard is cleared) tangent aside ... leaves need to be raked once or twice. Snow can be every damn day!
I think we've gotten around a half inch. I don't know when it happened, because I've been sitting by the window the whole time.
I Love the new Peyton Manning commericial for World MasterCard. The people around him are telling him to take a hike, choke on it, you're going down. And he says "Yeah, I'll cut it up into little pieces and put it in a fruit salad" (and the like).
Brilliant.
Peyton has come a long way since his first two years in the NFL. I remember watching an interview and he was saying what his routine was, studying, living with a legendary father. And part of the interview he showed his closet, organized by his wife so he can pick out something suitable to wear when she's not home.
I remember thinking to myself that this man is a very clever man, a football genius, but didn't have the ability to match a pair of pants with a shirt. The whole interview was very awkward.
And now that awkward man is a funny, personable, clever man.
I have a cramp in my left leg. It's really annoying.
Snow update: none has arrived since that half inch that mysteriously fell earlier.
I have a couple of blogs cooking up in my head. And if I ever put pen to paper they're going to be really good. Really Good.
But ... well ... I've been reading dooce.com. A lot. It has me transfixed. I found it through a Copyblogger newsletter and the post I read had me laughing out loud. I had to share it was Sarah and she loved it too. Dooce is famous for losing her job because she wrote about it on her blog. She started writing in 2001.
And I'm in 2004. I didn't read it all weekend ... and I missed it.
Goals for this week: 1. Sweep the house. 2. Finish the online Christmas shopping (for the love of god stop procrastinating!) 3. Start wrapping presents and write some cards out.
I think that's about enough. If I can pull myself away from the old adventures of dooce, the bearded husband, chuck and baby Leta ... I might get something done!
(oooh and the Advent for Adventurers Season Started .... mutated elves and penguins glore in Crimbo Town, WHoohoo!)
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