Checking in from the Ice State. It's crappy here, but not so bad as it is south of us, where they have already gotten slammed. I can hear the icy rain hitting my windows. I know already that Tuesday and maybe Wednesday will be Snow Days (yeah!) but I'm not sure about tomorrow. We're supposed to have a let-up this afternoon and Monday, so it just depends on (a) how cold it is and (b) how cleaned up things get before tomorrow morning.

ION, I rearranged my kitchen cabinets yesterday. Yeah, space.

IOON, my office is like a goddamned meat locker.

So Erin, will you be making up take home assignments so your kiddos won't get bored on their Snow Days? That's what Evil Erin would do.

I'm pissed off at my son. Must be nice to sit on your ass all day and night while your parents work so hard. Grrrrrrrrrrr

when I worked at a restaurant in Naperville IL, on bitter winter nights, the first waiter to get done for the evening would gather up everyone's car keys and start all the cars warming up.

Erin, you might have to go to school tomorrow, but Tuesday and Wednesdday will be WORSE? That's so weird.

It's chilly here in Seattle too. I'm jealous of the dunkin donuts. Mostly because I want coffee, but am too lazy to get dressed and go get some. I just ate a leftover doughnut from yesterday.

Walking out of work last night I mentioned to a cowworker that it was, "bitter cold". It couldn't have been below 50 degrees. I think I just lost my midwesterner membership card.

I love it when folks the SF Bay area try to justify their cold-weather wussiness. (The folks who wear winter coats when it's 50 F out.) They'd say things like, "Yeah, but here it's a 'chilled to the bones' cold," or 'Here it's a damp cold." Whatever.

Oh, and when I was in HS we had an exchange student from Finland. She arrived in August when it was 95 F out. Poor thing just hid in her host family's air-conditioned house....

Walking out of work last night I mentioned to a cowworker that it was, "bitter cold". It couldn't have been below 50 degrees. I think I just lost my midwesterner membership card.

Heh. I had this same experience last night, but I lost my New Englander membership card.

it could have been as low as 45 yesterday but still. In Chicago if it was 45 degrees in December we'd put the tops down on the carriages.

Seriously. I felt so ashamed! (Yet, sadly, still cold.)

I just met Emmett! He's real!