A Disappointing Start

I opened my eyes this morning and turned on the TV and immediately saw that the list of schools closed due to the weather was scrolling along the bottom of the screen. Listen, if schools are going to be closed due to weather, and one of them isn't mine, I'm not interested. And none of them today were mine.

It's icky out, a heavy dusting of snow -- if a dusting can be heavy -- followed by a pouring, heavy, cold rain. I left the house this morning to walk out into several inches of deep, heavy slush. Eeuuw. And of course, today was a day I had something big in my car that I had to bring into school. I made two trips.

Now I just feel like I must have overdosed on muscle relaxer, all heavy-headed and not to concerned about anything, but all I took today other than my regular pills was one advil, and that was at 6:30 this morning. I could just curl right up on my desk, or maybe under it, a la George Costanza, and go to sleep.

The Empress suggested SnL as the designation for my future son-in-law, and I like it. I'll worry about a second one when I see one. So for now, SnL he is. I've been doing the holiday shopping for him, from us and from the ILs, and it's interesting to shop in a new way, or rather, for a new person, someone whose tastes I don't know yet as well as I know everyone else's on my list. He was reluctant to give suggestions to R for stuff we could get, which I understand. But I did get him a nice robe and slippers at Old Navy -- it's what he wanted -- and I'll order something I saw from L.L. Bean for the ILs to give him. Then, this weekend, I shall complete all the Amazon shopping for the girls. I never know what to get the Hubs, but I realized that he has cut back on his wine shopping severely due to the family budget crunch, so I can get him a few bottles. (I told him no gifts for me, since I had gotten the Beatles game for the Wii just before the big crunch hit us.) As for the MIL, I have absolutely no idea this year, and I'm usually pretty good with her. You know what would be nice? A Kindle or a Nook, but that's out of our price range for now, as in she would kill us if we got her something that expensive. Another year, perhaps. As for this year .... hmmm. Maybe some nice restaurant gift-cards, so she could get take-out, like from Houlihans or something, it's very close to her, and cook less.

Jeez, a bathrobe. That's big, a big thing to wrap. Now I have to start thinking about wrapping, too.

I am briefly bookless. This needs attention.


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