Snow Days

Seriously people, I live in Texas, where it's supposed to be summer ten months of the year and a balmy cool the other two months. I don't think God got the memo, because it is freaking cold here. I had a friend who live in Helsinki send me a message this morning that it is actually colder in Dallas right now than it is in Finland. That is unacceptable, my friends.

We have solid ice coating every street in North Texas and temperatures in the single digits. The wind chill is supposed to be below zero. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with temperatures that low. Am I supposed to do something with my water pipes? Should I be sealing doors and windows with plastic and Duct Tape? (Hmm, maybe that's the response for biological warfare). Anyway, my point is I just don't know.

I do know that everyone has holed up in their homes like it's Armageddon outside, and there's is no available toilet paper left in the state. Everyone is staying off the roads (thank God) because none of us know how to drive in this nonsense. School has been closed for 2 WHOLE DAYS. Yes, that's right. TWO. I can only watch the NEVERENDING STORY so many times before things get crazy (though I'm particularly fond of Atreyu, the luck dragon and the terrible special effects).

On the upside: my husband has become a regular Eagle Scout at starting a fire. I won't lie. His fire-starting ability is the thing legends are made of. The way he stacks the kindling. The way he places each piece of newspaper in just the right spot. The way he wields a match as if it were a claymore. It's pretty sexy.

I hope everyone is braving the weather as stoically as I am.
Stay warm!