More Damn Snow

I know I've been complaining about the white stuff lately, but honest to god, it's annoying. My mom always says that I'va always been at least a month ahead of everyone else regarding the weather. I have distinct memories of going to pick up my dear friend Cupcake to walk to the bus stop and reporting to her mother how many more days there were until Halloween (if school had just started) or Christmas (if we were past Halloween). The same goes for me as an adult. I can't wait for the leaves to turn in the fall, then I wait anxiously with baited breath for the snow to come - and stick - then I bitch until the leaves start to pop and finally you don't want to be around when I'm counting how many more 90+ degree days I can stand. I'm relentless.

Winter's taken a whole new spin this year, because we've had extreme amounts of snow, and I'm not only tired of it, I've had to work from home a lot - at least one additional day per week, along with my normal Fridays of working from home - due to our daycare closing. If there was something extremely important at work, then I'd be there, and luckily there hasn't been too many of those days. I have a 40 mile commute that takes about an hour, and if the roads are bad then it takes longer.

Anyway.

I've stuck with my goal of posting every weekday, and I'm going to continue that. My next order of business wil be to attempt not complaining about the weather so much. I'm glad to live in a part of the world where we have seasons, and now I'm going to work on appreciating them while they're here.

Besides, I'm making bread for my Daring Bakers challenge for February. French bread. Should be interesting. Bread and pastry scares me... but you can look for a new post on that before Friday! So all is not bad today, despite the snow. And also: thank god we got satellite TV.... we let P melt her brain in front of the box on days like this. No wonder she hates going to school. TV is much better.