In This Crazy Life...

As a teacher I love a good snow day. There's something about waking up and finding out you can go back to bed. So far I think we only have three days to make up, so that's not too bad. I'm sure I will be hating these days come June when I want to be outside enjoying the pool. Anyways,  I have done nothing all day but work my puzzle and watch TV. I did step out on the front and back porch and snap a few pictures of the trees. I also love that I can step out on the porch with just a tank top on and nobody can see. I loath wearing lots of clothes around the house.

This weekend was supposed to be the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis. I signed up back in June and reserved my hotel. However, mother nature had other plans. We had a round of bad winter weather that left roads iced over for several days, so they ended up canceling the race. I checked and luckily my hotel will refund me my money, while others are not. Now, I was going to complete this race, but had I trained for it? No. I've been way too busy the past few months to take hours out of my dad and weekend to run. I had a house to finish and move into and a wedding to plan and attend. Anyways. I'm thinking about running the Nashville one in April. We will see. On another note the winter weather had us trapped on our hill for four days, before the temperatures reached 32 and the ice could melt some. Kev and I definitely enjoyed spending some quality time together and had a blast sledding.

I Finally got a new internet modem! The power outage killed mine. Even though the winter storm of 2012 left me without power for almost a week, it was beautiful to look at.  Kev and I woke up early the morning after Christmas and went outside to enjoy the snow.  The dogs absolutely loved playing in it!

Day five in the dark! 111 hours. I really hope they get it on soon. I'm so glad I have a warm place to stay that my animals can stay too, but I want to be at my house. The dogs want to be able to run and not be confined to a small space on a tie out. I don't want to spend my Christmas break like this!!!! I did this puzzle last night. Even though Kev has power he doesn't get cable or Internet service. You may get two bars on your phone if you stand close enough to the right window. So we are having an Entourage marathon.

Christmas Day we had lots of ice topped off with snow. Our power went out about 4:00 that afternoon. Luckily, I had already made a huge pot of chili. About two hours later, it came back on just long enough for us to eat dinner and shower (since I have a well, I don't get water when there's not electricity). By 10:00 it was out again and that's the last time we had power. I have a fireplace so keeping warm wasn't a problem. Kev split some wood and we were good to go. I pulled the camping cookware down from the attic. I cooked sausage, eggs, and toast for breakfast.  Warmed chili up for lunch. And made grilled chicken and cheese sandwiches for dinner.  I even pulled some cookie dough from the freezer and grilled cookie dough. We had to flip them like pancakes to cook them thoroughly, but they we delicious.  After sleeping on the mattress in front if the fireplace and still no power, we got the ok from his dad to bring all the animals out to his land....