The Crystal Caves

i am only just sitting here. i maintain quite firmly that hair should not hurt unless it's been up in some elaborate hair style all day. i can't do that with mine, i get headaches so i wear it loose all the time. i don't know how big of a weather system we have covering us right now, but i can barely move. jason came in early on his own to get me out of there. i was just hanging on because i need the hours. but now i can take a bath and go to bed.

i ran errands before work, which added to the problems, but they needed to be done. though if i had known how sick i was going to get, i wouldn't have bought snacks for work until later in the week. i can't eat at the moment. just the thought of food. *shudders*

one more day of work, and then i can spend the day in bed being sick. i see my PT on thursday, which can only help. right now, movie night is up in the air. which sucks, because i love this one. :(

These aren't the best in the world because a) it's dark out and b) I used my cell phone. But it shows how much snow we have on the ground and in the trees. I'm guessing about two feet total, with a foot or so of new snow today alone.














And yes, it is still falling and likely will be all night. This must be our revenge for getting no snow for most of the winter. And it's supposed to start raining on us in a couple of days. Can anyone say flooding??

someone screwed up somewhere. we had a foot of snow dump on us overnight and now it's down around 20F and not supposed to get much warmer for like three days. then it's supposed to snow again. it just makes no sense. not to mention it's dangerous as hell out there.

The next time my mum has the idea to fly out of Lewiston (35-45 minutes away) rather than out of Spokane (an hour and a halfish) I'm going to remind her of this morning. It just took me two and a half hours to make the round trip down and back to drop them off at the airport because of the snow/sleet and fog. Not to mention my dad almost fell over at the airport, which would have ruined their whole trip anyway. *sighs* This might be the last time they make the trip just by themselves. Yeah, they're on their way to Mexico for 11 days. I get to stay home and work. There's something wrong with this picture. ;)

Oh, and I was tailgated by a state patrol officer. Nice, huh.

At times like these I like to quote Muppet Treasure Island.
"I hate my life" - Jim
"I hate your life too" - Gonzo
"If I had a life I'd hate it" - Rizzo


It snowed last night. Like blizzard force winds and blinding snow. I have frost nip and its almost April!!!! Not to mention I found out I don't work with any gentlemen, not to mention decent human beings. Yeah, its back to barely able to stand up, let alone sit or walk and they all left me in the parking lot struggling with horizontal snow and winds to scrape off my damn car. Makes me want to beat them all senseless with my cane.

So, obviously, everything is on hold. If you're awaiting an email (or beta, Jess) I will get to it as soon as I possibly can. It just hurts to sit right now. Or think.

But I did find out why the fan fic bunnies have all run away and hidden. The novel bunnies are out with guns demanding that I finish the story and start the sequel now. *sigh* On the plus side, it does mean it'll go to New York that much faster.


My folks are starting to talk about moving south for all of our health. I told them to find me a place where the weather isn't crazy like it is here, no hotter than about 85F in the summer and a good doctor who believes in and will treat fibromyalgia and I'll go. They're thinking the highlands of Arizona in a couple of years when Mum retires. Maybe sooner if I keep getting so sick.

I think that's it. Oh, wait, nope its not. I had a really good Naruto joke the other night - even if Ro didn't think it was funny. We've started watching Shippuden and I had her roommate's kitten asleep on my tummy. I came up with the idea for the kitten - Callie - to be a ninja kitty and fight with the gentle paw. So I told Ro "eight tri-grams, sixty-four paws!" Yeah, she wasn't amused. Neji probably wouldn't be either.

I'm not big on the holidays when I'm home alone with only the TV and my DVD collection for company. *sigh* My folks are - hopefully - already in Mexico where I'll be joining them on Sunday, and my kid brother (who finally made it home) is at a high school friend's house for supper. That's actually a good thing as there's no food in the house at the moment.
But I did go out and take some pictures of the snow for our family in Mississippi. I maintain that we need to invite my aunt and uncle up for a couple of weeks in December or January so they can experience winter. And I thought I'd share the pics here as well.

The icicles on the house







Snow rift on the tree in the driveway






The street



The backyard

I went out a took a couple of pics of my street and driveway because, as I said, we haven't had snow like this since 1996. Of course we had floods then too when it all melted. That was not a fun year.

I don't swear, much, and there are certain words I avoid at all costs. Shut up, Ro, and I never said it. *grin* But there is one four letter word I am definately putting in the totally foul category.
SNOW.
I hate it. We had our first snow storm today, just a light dusting but when I just glanced out into the darkness I could see it is still falling by the light of the street lamp on the corner. My mum told me the schools are already talking about closing down. And they made my class go regardless of what the weather was doing. I remember wading through at least three feet of snow most winters and even being dragged out in our PE uniforms to run around the track. Evil phys. ed teachers here. :)
So only seven months to go until we get nice weather again.