Tomorrow, temps will be normalish. Curl up by the fire or hotel cable with the Biscuit and SO and wait it out. Do you think it is too cold to stay in the house? Fire up lights by the plumbing and open plumbing cabinets. t / you probably already know this

God, I feel for the SW right now. It's not designed for this on a household level, and on a state level? No way. This is a century storm.

Try the dollar store?

Ah, I actually think I know where I can find these now. Thanks for the tip!

Hotel is a good move, Liese. Stay safe and try to breathe. You will be warm and it'll be okay.

Erin, both curtains are white. The short ones or long ones?

Long ones, sorry!

Ugh, Liese! That sucks, but I am glad you will be warm and safe.

Just got the call we will have no school tomorrow. I am REALLY surprised -- only a very few urban KC schools have called it so far. Like, 2. Including us. I wonder if more will call it before tomorrow morning.

I was not expecting it, so much that I worked on school stuff from 3:30 to 11. They called about 10 minutes ago.

Well. At least I am done with a HUGE chunk of stuff I needed to do, and don't have to stress about getting the rest done on my plan tomorrow. I can do it in small, easy chunks over the weekend.

Also -- dear ex-students: I certainly do not CARE that you are bitching about your weed guy not having a cell phone, so you can't score a blunt (TIP: Find a better drug dealer; I bet his weed is stank) but I wince when I see your post on a pretty public place. Keep it in the DL, dearests; shit lives forever on the intertubes. @@

Yup. It was definitely going to be too cold. We left, and the band leader`s car`s 4wd gave out. I was all, this is my fault. But then, the power came on right as we were going, so we set the heater in the far bathroom.
 
And we made it to town and the band leader bought me dinner because I was a douf and forgot I could have cooked on the propane. Or the woodstove for that matter. And we closed out the Arby`s so they gave us a bag of free turnovers.
 
So we`re at the hotel now, fed and warm. The Biscuit thinks it`s awesome. Hopefully tomorrow will ease up.

GA: Avery!

Liese, take care.

GA: There's going to be a musical episode. I don't even.

I'm glad to hear you're fed and warm, Liese. Sleep well.

I am just now getting a chance to check my gmail acct, and I notice this in an email from Groupon:

Hand-crafted goods, like giggling babies coated in a thick layer of wax, showcase what skilled fingers are capable of.

WTF?!? Who the hell dips a giggling babies in wax?

WTF?!? Who the hell dips a giggling babies in wax?

People created by Thomas Harris?

Burrell, I like Groupon for the most part (hell, I bought $60 worth of Groupons for a gluten-free bakery from them today for $30), but I think their attempts at "humor" (scare quotes intentional) are just weak and sad. They just try too hard and aren't as cool and funny as they think they are.

snerk

Ugh. Matilda has a cough that hasn't responded to two doses of cough medicine.

I'm already tensing up knowing how little sleep I'll get tonight.