The Legendary Second Snow Day!

Not exactly...it's only the first but I AM hopeful.  It's supposed to get icy and while I will brave snow, I never brave ice so I decided that since school is closed in J-town as well as Evan's school, I am taking a snow day.

And what will I do???  

Laundry.  More laundry.  TONS OF LAUNDRY.  

I told Ev we'd play a game too.  We have a new DaVinci Code game for the PS2 and he's still battling Luigi's Mansion so we will do that and fold laundry and have a nice, cozy day inside.

Maybe I can talk him into watching "Snow Day" too!!!

About That Second Snow Day...

When I titled the last post "The Legendary Second Snow Day", I really WAS kidding.

It was a not-so-obtuse reference to the movie "Snow Day" which details the arrival of snow in a snowless winter for a bunch of kids and how they finnagled the "legendary" second snow day by hijacking the Snowplow Guy and un-plowing the roads.  

Sorry if I ruined it for you.

Anyway, over the past weekend they threatened us with it but so far this winter we have been practically snowless and every other time they threatened us, the storm would skirt us to the south and we ended up with nothing.  Of course, when they started on FRIDAY with the "we're in line for a really potent storm!" we all figured it would miss us once again...and I really think that even up to this morning people STILL thought it would drive right by to our south and leave us with nothing more than clouds and cold.

Well, hush my mouth and make me eat chitlins' but didn't it just camp on our doorstep today?  

I just saw that our county got 6.5" so far and they're expecting another 1-3" by tomorrow.  The local airport is reporting just 2" but I think someone may be delusional out there.  There's just no way, especially since the airport is at the foot of the mountains and usually gets a lot more than we do here in J-Town.

The college where I work closed at 2pm.  I had taken a day so I'll be charged for the entire day which is fine...I just couldn't bring myself to white-knuckle it to work today and then sit there and worry about white-knuckling it home as the sun set.  I haven't heard from Mother since 1pm so I am figuring they all left.  

M's office closed at 4 instead of 6 and the closings on tv indicate that no one is going anywhere tonight and most likely tomorrow.

Which brings us to the topic of the legendary second snow day for real.

If I stay home tomorrow, that will be 2 of my coveted and saved 10 PTO days to date leaving me with 8.  And since I like to carry over 5, that leaves me with 3 to be spent between now and Memorial Day weekend when I had been planning on taking 5 to head for the beach.  I guess that won't happen.  At least not 5 anyway.  I just have to get into the mindset that it's better to spend a day and not end up dead on the side of the road than to save it just to drive 6 hours to the beach for a few days right?