NOW i get it.

yesterday i went grocery shopping around 1:15pm. the parking lot was PACKED when i arrived, and the store was full of angry, frustrated people bumping their carts into each other with no manners whatsoever. i couldn't figure out what was going on -- a big sale, perhaps? i mean, entire sections of shelves were wiped out. then it hit me that 1:15pm is the time when every church in the area lets out their noon service. a-HA. note to self: do not shop between 1 and 2pm on sundays.

but of course, now i know that yesterday's crowd was also because of impending snow. double a-ha. no wonder all the milk and bread supplies were decimated. i have to say though, i'm glad i made all that taco soup... that's going to be soooooo good for lunch after i spend a couple of hours shoveling my driveway. yes, today will be a work-from-home day... maybe i'll be able to try sledding in my yard after calling in to my last meeting of the day.

oh, btw -- one of the things i got at the store yesterday was a package of frozen taquitos for dinner... since i was starting up on WW again this morning, i figured i'd have a few of them as one last "splurge" meal. when dinnertime came, i read the heating directions on the box, and then turned the box to its side to open it... and noticed the expiration date. august 2007. not 2008... 2007. the damn taquitos expired a year and a half ago, and were still in the freezer section of the supermarket. grrrrrrrrr.

sigh.

too antsy to enjoy the snow day today. i'd really really like to go out and shovel the driveway, but it's still snowing pretty hard... anything i clear out will just get covered and require another round. bummer is that i have meetings straight through from 1-5pm that i have to call in for... so i can't start shoveling until the end of the day. i think i'm going to be hauling snow in the dark... it's getting pretty deep out there.

just saw a guy in a ski mask walking his dog out in the snow. does anyone really wear a ski mask in the cold? he looked like a bank robber walking this little white poofy poodle thing. the dog was a hoot -- every few feet it would plunge its face in the snow, *poomph* and then come up grinning, its curly face completely covered in white powder. a few feet later, *poomph* again. i laughed out loud, it was so cute.

angus is thrilled i'm home. he has me all to himself, and gets the other half of the couch. (he doesn't get the other half of the couch when uncle jack is over.) he's snoring away right next to me, every once in a while he rolls over onto his back and offers me his big floofy belly to rub. which is good, because i'm easily distracted this morning... i'm getting work stuff done, but i really want to get the shoveling over with. meh.

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i just spent over an hour freezing my hiney off shoveling the driveway.

my back is not happy, even though i made sure to lift with my legs.

just now i shed my snowy clothes, threw on some sweats, and made a cup of cocoa to warm up.

i sat down on my couch to drink it, and looked out the window...

...to see my neighbor across the street pull in with a plow attached to his truck, and plow his own driveway out in less than 2 minutes.

*headdesk* why did i forget that my neighbor has a plow...