Snow and Stew

I wish my coworkers all ate together in a lunch room regularly.  Yesterday would have been the perfect day to get the "What do you have for lunch question?"  "Oh, you know, African yam and peanut stew that my mom made for me because she loves me."  But that might have amde everyone else feel bad who DIDN'T have thier Mom pop in to do something nice for them. 

Yeah, my mom pops in now.  No big.

The folks are in town for 3 weeks.  There are rumors of furniture and so I am hoping to drop in soon.  But man, it has been a busy week.  More requests from the underwriters.  New editing contract.  Meeting with my peer mentoring (career) group.  Having a job. 

And it snowed last night.  Or coated everything in a heavy coat of sleet.  It's disgusting out, so I'm at my home office in my PJs, thank you very much.  Kinda wish I had some more African stew to eat while I am keeping cozy over here, but I'll get by.

Snowpocalypse III: Sleetmageddon

I am writing this update purely because I wanted to type that title.

We got some weather today. It's been pretty chilly, and today we actually got some sleet. It sounded really neat bouncing off the ground and all the leaves. Like a world filled with pop rocks.

We got our new, very pretty shower measured for glass. We're going with framed glass, all nice and clear, so it should look really nice. I'll put pictures up when the whole things is done.

Jess and I are hoping to vacation in Europe this year. It's looking like we'll go with a tour company, because there's a lot of places we want to see and figuring out how to navigate around so many different countries sounds pretty tricky. Anyone who thinks or knows differently should feel free to chime in.

-N

State of Emergency- We are survivors

Yesterday's recruiting weekend awkwardly coincided with a major Snow Storm. They are calling it the Snowpocalypse. We've got 18 inches on the ground, choking streets and crumbling trees. A state of emergency has been declared in our county, and the news says the National Guard has been deployed. Obviously, Matt and I are capable of handling ourselves in inclement weather, so please don't worry. On our street, we've been battling the snow and enjoying the change in scenery. We walked up the hill to see that the grocery store and not much else was open. We did have time to stop in and get some cupcakes from Dozens- which should sustain us through the worst of this.

While this put a major cramp on our recruiting plans (ie, no one was able to get TO the recruits today, as far as I know, and we many of them hand to push start cars to get back to the hotel last night), now that we don't have anything important to do we are having a lot of fun. Matt took some photos this morning, so you can also see the wonderland. If you are scanning headlines with anxiety, we are warm, we've got power and we're safe.

Here is the view of Forbes and Murray (major intersection) this morning. People were cross country skiing, and dragging kids in sleds up the middle of the street.