Used and manipulated!!!!

The fab new gig came with a couple of strings attached. The largest string being the 45 minute commute I must endure each day to and from work. It was fine at first - absolutely NO traffic in either direction. But as some of you may know, I will fall asleep in any moving vehicle almost immediately - wether i'm driving or not. After two horrendous drives fighting sleep almost the entire way, I figured out that maybe if I get some audio books, that would keep me alert and awake. Well, it worked. I've been happily commuting and catching up on books that I've wanted to read for a very long time.
Last week, I finally finished a particularly long book and found myself in need of something new. With the weather the way it's been of late, it's been pretty hard for me to motivate to get to the local Borders. So, I'm stuck listening to lackluster local radio stations. I'm not much for music in the morning - Alice in SF broke me from that addiction... I love a good morning talk radio station... kinda' light, kinda' silly. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything to my liking. Ergo, lackluster local radio. Yesterday I'm minding my own business, cruising along on thankfully snow-free roads when the strains of what was sure to be a cheezy christmas song come floating through the airwaves. Having NOTHING else to do, I begin to let myself be lulled into the christmas spirit and actually start paying attention to the song. Here it is: (I'd recommend NOT watching the video and just listening so you can appreciate the hellish manipulation that I went through)



GODDAMNIT if I didn't mist up. For crissakes, what has beCOME of me???
"I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets jesus tonight"?????
Are you fucking kidding me???? I know no one who could resist that.
Happy fucking holidays!!!!

Weather Issues...

We are currently "snowed in". Okay, it's a self induced "snow in" mostly because we're too paranoid to try driving in all that stuff out there. While I have only ventured out once (pics to follow), apparently the road conditions are supposed to be "treacherous" due to the fact that it snowed THEN it sleeted (still not sure what that means), THEN it rained. This combination of weather conditions leads to something called "Black Ice". While that SOUNDS like it's uber-cool, apparently it spells certain death for anyone foolish enough to get in their cars and drive. (okay, 'certain death' may be a bit strong... how 'bout 'certain ditch' or 'certain dent' or 'sho-nuff crash'?)
Anyhow, we haven't yet grown the "snow balls" to get behind the wheel of our cars so that means we're just hanging out in the house all weekend. I got a bit stir-crazy yesterday afternoon and decided that we should at least TRY to experience the loveliness that was covering our abode, so we piled on layers and layers of clothes, ran up to the second floor and out onto the deck. Mon Petit Cousin suggested "snow angels"...
I had a rough start...

but ended up pretty good...

his was good all the way around...

except when it came to the dismount...

points off for catching wind in the hood

here are some additional pics of what we're seeing from the toasty warm insides of our snow prison:







Gettit?
Today is day two of our self induced snow in... wonder what will happen when I get stir crazy again...