Snowpacolypse 2011

Snowpacolypse 2011...

Way worse than last week's Snowmageddon 2011

Man! Talk about me hyper all yesterday morning. I was so excited I forgot to start my coffee for the first 30 minutes I was awake. I was too busy running around the living room, going outside to video, coming back inside to video, going back outside, eating the snow, spitting out the snow all the while, making the poor dogs a nervous wreck.

Oh poor dogs...

Can you even imagine trying to pee

Later in the day, my husband and I ventured out with a failed attempt to sled... in nearly 2 feet of snow. Hmph. Who would have known. On our way back home, a nice young gentleman on a four-wheeler offered to pull me on the sled behind his killing-machine (per my husband). I'm guessing he saw me starting to squirm and dance with excitement as he was driving by. Somehow he must have known that I've been wanting to be pulled behind a four wheeler or truck since the last snow, despite news segments on deaths while doing such things.

Bo and I responded to his offer at the same time. "Yes! Awesome! I'd love too!", "Aw, no thanks man." Then we looked at each other. Poor guy on the four-wheeler... must been cold as Bo and I silently battled it out. I tried the ever-girly batting-of-the-eyelashes and head tilt. Note to self:  ice-crusted eyelashes and a snot-spit covered face mask lack a cuteness factor. I think my looks would have won if it had been... warmer. Then, he telepathically reminded me, "What about our 5 hour visit to the hospital last January?"

                                                                      Oh yeah.

Seeing how I'm not the most graceful creature and being adventurous on a sled last year landed me in the ER (thanks to a big metal hand rail)...



Pre-concussion + 4 stitches
Winter 2010

 ...I politely declined the four-wheeler-man-'s offer. Ugh. I hate when common sense wins.

Eek. Hopsital smell memory overload.

So, I resorted to more modest options when we returned home:

1. Snow-day photography

2. Drinking hot chocolate

3. Staring out the window

And the snow-day photography continues today...

with flying objects involved

The Harry Potter method of taking out icicles



Welp, just got word that our school is closed tomorrow for the 3rd day in a row. Looks like I should save my blogging excitment for tomorrow.

Coffee shop here I come!

"Imminent Death Eve" A.K.A "It's going to snow again tomorrow"

Beautiful sunrise... hot coffee... garbage trucks...

...the perfect morning.

No, really, we haven't had our dang trash picked up in about a week. Because, you know, of the SNOW. The non-picking up of the trash even landed a segment in the local news.

Can you imagine the intern... "You want me to cover... what?"

And due to the 4 days of no school, I've managed to create an exponential amount of garbage at home. The less-than-extra-strength trash bags are poking through with coffee grounds, cat poop (because stir-crazy-ness results in litter box cleaning twice a day apparently), vacuum...stuff (again, twice a day), and loads of thread, paper and fabric. Which reminds me, we're actually out of trash bags. Hm, looks like I'll be braving Walmart once again in preparation of... you guessed it...

Imminent Death!

 (be sure to really annunciate the "th" to get the full effect)

A.K.A. snow tomorrow

But as you can see, by Monday it looks like I'll be lounging in my bikini (ok, not really).

So here I sit, enjoying my pumpkin spice latte (half-caff, mind you, because I'll not be sleeping well... the mere sound of snow keeps me up), awaiting those wonderful frozen flakes to fall from the sky to send the town into a tizzy, me into art mode and make the last day of school (for good or bad)... oh, June 13th.

It's Starting to Melt!

Good morning (well... afternoon but I just finished my coffee) my friends,
    I would first like to give a big blog shout out to my husband for being my first follower! (Does it count that I lead him to my page and tickled him until he clicked "Followers"?)
    The snow is beginning to melt which means we will (most likely...) have our first day back to school tomorrow since last Monday. HOWEVER! There is another storm system moving in Wednesday that is predicting 5 - 10" of snow.

It looks like more insanity is imminent in my house due to my unwillingness (or inability) to drive on the snow. Which, lucky for you, means more crafts and blogging!

    Even though we will be making up snow days until the middle of June, I do indeed love the snow. I spend snow days alternating between crafts and joining my dogs as we all stare out the window.  I do have "Snow Day = Craft Day" fellow teacher buddies that, I'm assuming, still love me despite my overly excitable personality because they continue to come to my humble abode. To see a glimpse of what my friends endure on snow day-craft days... check out the video below!

     Now, please excuse me while I prepare my snow dance for this week.

Snow Day - Day 5 (Help Me)

Due to "Arkansas Snowmageddon 2011" or better known as "OMG-it's-still-snowing-and-we're-out-of-coffee", "I'm going to be teaching till the 4th of July", and "I'm so bored I've decided to submit my husbands "Prey Application" to Man Tracker" ( Man Tracker Casting Call Season 6) ...

 I have decided to create a blog.

If you are reading this (which who knows how long that will be before someone finds my post) please keep in mind that I have no clue what I'm doing or even how to structure a blog. I'm so lame, I even chose a pre-made background for this thing which is pretty embarrassing for an art teacher in the 21st century or a "crafty artist". Which, by the way, is a complete oxymoron... A title for which my college art professors might be slightly disappointed.
     The term "blog" has always reminded me of a friendly ameba. While I do not wish for my blog to resemble a grayish blob under a microscope, I do anticipate it will constantly change as time moves along or better yet, will stop all together when our district runs out of snow days (or I run out of coffee). However! I do hope you will tag along with me on this adventure.