Snow day, part 2

This was my morning:
5:32 - alarm goes off, drag myself out of bed, go potty.
5:35 - put on slippers, bundle up in the hubs coat, take dog out to make yellow snow - it has really had just started snowing and we may have had a light dusting.
5:40 - sit down in recliner and turn on the news, watching school closings, see my schools name!!! Turn to the 3 other KC area news channels, see schools name on them too!
5:50 - receive phone call from department chair saying school was cancelled!!!!!!
5:55 - climb back in bed and sleep another 3 hours!
9:37 - wake up again.
10:01 - make orange rolls for breakfast, got them just for snow day morning!
10:07 - put pork roast in the crock-pot for dinner.
10:58 - writing this post!

Gotta love snow days!!!

It's frickin' freezing!!

When I left for school this morning my car said it was 2 degrees. TWO DEGREES!!!! That's cold!!! I had to turn on the seat warmers on high and the heater all the way to 90 and it still took 20 minutes to getg warm. I even stopped for a cappucino!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Definately wrapping paper
2. Real tree or Artificial? Has to be real
3. When do you put up the tree? We typically buy one the day after Thanksgiving and then spend the next day decoration.
4. When do you take the tree down? After New Year's, depends on when I have to go back to school
5. Do you like eggnog? LOVE IT!!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Mary Lou Retton leotard in 1984, I had just turned 5!
7. Hardest person to buy for? The hubs
8. Easiest person to buy for? My mom or the princess niece
9. Do you have a nativity scene? No, but I have one picked out, just can't afford it and my mom won't let me have the one I always put out as a kid.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Only mail.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? The ugly music box from my evil grandmother last year
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Mickey's Christmas Carol. I love most Christmas movies, the cheesier the better!
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? All year long
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not usually, but I have.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Mom's Christmas breakfast, we have the same thing every year and only on Christmas.
16. Lights on the tree? Yes and everything else!
17. Favorite Christmas song? Carol of the Bells, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (had a solo in high school!), anything TSO
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Go to mom and dad's on Christmas morning in PJ's!
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Yes.
20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Depends on whose house we are at. We only go to the MIL on Christmas Eve out of obligation. Then go to church. We spend Christmas day at my parents. We celebrate with the FIL sometime before New Year's because he get's paid too well to not work Christmas. I prefer Christmas morning.
21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? My "bah humbug" husband.
22. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love red and green trees. But I also love sentimental ornaments.
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? A baby
24. Angel on the tree top or a star? A star. The angel is too expensive to put on the tree, so it sits on a table close by.
25. Favorite Christmas dinner? Anything at my parents.

Things to do on a snow day!

1. Sleep in!
2. Watch CSI marathon on Spike
3. Take the pups out for a steaming present
4. Eat a bowl of cornflakes
5. Fill out Christmas cards, hope I got everyone!
6. Work on Brianna's sock, second sock syndrome?!
7. Blow nose 5 million times
8. Make great-grandma Margaret's homemade chicken and noodles from scratch, if only I had an old hen
9. Go to Dialog in the Dark with little brother, then out to dinner
10. Dig out a box of baby clothes that I have been collecting
11. Wind some yarn into balls
12. Mail swap box
13. Snuggle up on the couch with the pups

Hooray for snow!!!

Students and teachers alike love snow. Why, you ask? SNOW DAYS!!!! My students kept asking me yesterday if I thought that we would have a snow day today, I kept saying no, it's not going to snow enough. Well, I was wrong, as I was watching the news a 10:03 last night, my school's name showed up as being canceled for the day!!!! We only had a half day with students, so it was probably a good idea to cancel for the day! I get to stay home snuggled up on the couch with the pups and watch a CSI marathon and drool over Nick Stokes!

I'm getting sick, I have a head cold. Now it's settling into my chest. Not good. I've already had bronchitis once this fall, now I'm getting it again. I can't really afford (time and money) to go to the doctor, get the expensive antibiotic (because I'm lucky enough to be allergic to the cheap antibiotics) and cough syrup right now. I've gone through so many Kleenex's in the last 2 days!

I love the snow....

but hate stupid drivers! I don't know what it is about snow, but it brings out the stupid in people. Now, I have 4-wheel drive in my SUV and everything, but that doesn't mean I get to drive how I want to. You still have to take it slow and drive smart. I live 28 miles from my school, it's a 35 minute drive, I passed at least 12 wrecks. I drive mostly interstate, these are the first roads cleaned off.