1 Week Anniversary

One week ago from today Chicago shut down. Honestly, the entire city shut down. Besides working from home I was able to spend some bonding time shoveling with the hubs and capturing some of these photos. Enjoy!

The ones at the end are the hubs 6ft high 7 ft wide fort. I'm serious. He was so proud.  

Happy 1 week anniversary Snomageddon or whatever it was we were calling you back then. For Minne snow video action check out this link.



Minne and the Blizzardmania

Tuesday night was just terrible. The winds were so bad it felt like I was living in the house from Wizard of Oz. Along with things like our pilot light going out, we had a dog who refused to go outside to the bathroom. Instead, she opted to sleep all of Tuesday evening into early afternoon Wednesday.

At that point we could tell she really had to go to the bathroom. She was pacing and making some whiny noises, so we decided we had to make her go out.

Attempt 1 didn't go so well.

Attempt 2 (about an hour later) went a little better, although you can see my hand pushing her out the door. We're still not sure that she went.

Finally we got her to go out for less than 5 seconds to do her business (no video, but come on do you really want to see that?).

Storms can be very traumatic on animals

She followed it up with another 5 hours of sleep while the hubs and I shoveled. More photos to come.

Blizzardmania

Snow!

 I live in the Midwest, scratch that I live in the Chicago land area. Let's be real here, this city was made for snow, half our budgets get poured into snow and ice removal. Snow days are far and in between. 11 inches of snow, work is still on, 2 feet of snow over a 2-3 day period, work is still on.

snow in Wheaton

However, in the instance that we do get this so called "'Life-threatening’ blizzard" (you know the one where we have rapid accumulation in a short stint of time with a punch of winds) I received this email from my boss.

Lets keep an eye on the weather, if the we get what its expected overnight Tuesday, I don’t want any of you in on Wednesday. There are a few folks closer to the building that can muster in if needed.  We will most likely have an EQ* tomorrow to get people out before the weather hits hard.

*EQ is our office terminology for Early Quit

the one and only snow day from when I lived in Minnesota

Due to my early am dentist appointment tomorrow combined with tomorrow's EQ, I've been privileges with the chance to work from home. So tonight, I'm going to put together my survival kit and then prep for the best 2 snow day ever. Here's what I am thinking

• a corncob pipe, a button and some coal for the best snowman ever (I wasn't prepared in Minnesota)
• a shovel and some buckets to turn our kids playset in the yard into a winter fort (Minne's gonna be stoaked)
• Catch up on thank you cards (I'm so behind) and help Minne work on her Valentine's
• Maybe some baking
• hot cocoa, wood in the fire place me cuddled on the sofa with a good book in hand
• perhaps a sled ride with the hubs - we'll see if he gets all his shoveling done first ;)

 the one and only snow day from when I lived in Minnesota

If you were to have a snow day, what would you do?

PS I bet Minne is going to be most excited.

Random Blackberry Photos

Since my camera has been broken I've been using my Blackberry to capture everything. Figured it was time to start cleaning out the 2010 photos. Here's some 2010 randoms.

Crop out I65 and you have some pretty snowy trees. I take snowy photos and send them to my grandma in Florida since she can't experience the snow from down south. Here's another

My aunt and uncle have an ice skating rink in the back yard. The boys play hockey and the girls in my family pose for pretty photos.

Grandma and Grandpa enjoying the perks of me and my uncle's job.

Not a great pic of grandpa but a pretty cool shot of the United Center (shameless plug).

Minne waiting to move into her new house

Me and baby Buddy from January 2010

Christmas Eve: One crazy scary game of spoons

 

Moving In the Snow

Just an FYI, when you move in the middle of a snow storm, it's important that you shovel first.



This photo was taken less than 15 hours after we closed.. Note, we close at 6pm on a Friday night..