Whoa, am I glad I didn't post this morning

Looks like it would have vanished in LJ land. As it is "new" posts keep popping up. *grins* It's at least keeping me occupied.

So I get a call about 8:45, I should have been long up, but, as usual, I was lounging. It's my Cape boss, saying "Um it's snowing here, you won't make it down let alone home. Can you switch days?" of course.
Except not, My other boss's office has a full house, and I think I'm just going to work On Sunday instead, and take today as my day off. Big suck. If I'd known this I wouldn't have rushed my laundry last night, but I night run another load today, I dunno, I have to look around and see if there's anything I didn't wash last night, there's some things that might need to be, but wasn't in the "really dirty" pile. My work clothes don't actually get worn all that much, sometimes when I work a half day this first thing I do is come home and change.

I'm bloody well hungry. I need a reference book I hope is in the car, and I want a pizza anyway, so I think I'm going to kill two big ole birds with one stone. Besides, I should be moving my car so the plow can get in.

On tap for today, moving some work files from the laptop to my computer, filing stuff, maybe some cleaning, perhaps some shopping, I still need conditioner, and new tights, oh and before that some work on my finances.

I like what I do, since I can do things like this. I have to poke tobi about elvendoll see if there's anything I can do, since I won't be able to keep my promise about looking in on her on Saturday. I hope things are going OK.

jeez!

Unless you have a honkin big truck like bunicula, do NOT go outside!
And if you have an auto like gothboy's you should run and HIDE.
I just saw a car like his in my parking lot, slipping and sliding, with NO control.

Let me explain.
There's a metric buttload of snow out there. I drove down to a main corner to go to my new favorite pizza place for a pizza. It took me twenty minutes to clean off my car, it's all light fluffy snow, which means taking a big sweep with a brush puts half of it back onto the car. I got to the place and found a spot. Got my pizza, which I hadn't bothered to order in advance. In TEN minutes, my car is covered again. Then I can't get out of the spot, there's snow everywhere any my tires can't find purchase. Some numbnuts actually STOPPED and waved me into traffic. I turned around and looked her in the eyes and said "I'm Stuck you stupid bitch. Just get out of the way." I mean, who stops in the MIDDLE of traffic, when it's obvious that I'm stuck.

THEN I make it to the side street leaning to my house. At the end is an incline, I was building up momentum to get up it. Except stopped in the MIDDLE of the road is a Toyota, who kept backing up and moving forward. OK say I, it's slippery. Except it's NOT,she's trying to get into a driveway. SO I go around her, but since I went from a stop, and it IS slippery I can't make it. I have to turn around, and go back around the car, where I very satisfactorily told the woman driver and her husband digging out the driveway how much they sucked. My window was open. *evil grin* They both glared at me, thus proving the "I no speak Engrish." can be SO faked, I know this particular couple has played that card before. Or maybe they just have heard the word "Asshole" enough that they know what it means.

I make it home without anymore undue problems, expect for the moron in my driveway who seems to think I can float my car over him while he's pulling out and I'm pulling in, as evidenced by his "come on" gestures. Um, buddy, you're in the MIDDLE of the driveway. Move your ass.

So the moral of that story is told by how much I slid around. My car doesn't slide. My car has traction control, we don't slide, we don't get stuck. Since we did, it can be assumed that the weather and conditions are VERY Crappy.

Stay in til it stops. Stay at work, stay home, stay where you are. You'll be happier for it, believe me.

You know what annoys me the most

I really wanted to not go to work today and be able to go to WalMart and buy myself a new desk chair. I have the not going to work, but I also have the going nowhere. I love my chair, but I like to tuck my legs up underneath me while I work, and I can't get quite comfy here in this chair.

Add insult to injury - I'm hungry again. This time I have to cook, unless I'm going to go out and dig out my car.Which I should do eventually.

I'm almost bored enough to actually work!

I just had the oddest argument

well, sort of a group thing.
Between my car and me
and the pile of snow in back of him (my car)

I decided to go clean off my car in preparation of rolling outta bed in the morning, and hightailing it to the Cape for my Day Of Hell. The earlier I get there, the earlier I will get home. Could make the difference between 9 and 10. I'm hoping to be there by 9:30, if I can get moving by 8:30, maybe by 10 with stopping for coffee and donuts. Anyway.

So, I'm plowed in, sort of. See my sister's space is next to my mother's space, and since her boyfriend is a dickhead, of course it's HIS space. He has a big ass Jeep, and he hasn't pulled forward enough, so the plow went by, didn't cut in any further, so I have a HUGE mound of snow, about 2 feet wide. OK, no prob. I start to clean off my car. I thought I should pull out of the space a bit, to give the engine room to warm up, and not go wonky. This was my mistake,

I couldn't get the friggin car back in the space for about 10 minutes. The mound of snow got packed down, and was so wide I didn't get any traction. I had to pull away from the space, dig it out some, pull in, pull out AGAIN and dig some more. Thank the gods the snow was light and fluffy, and that I have a portable shovel. It was more annoying than anything else.

I'm hoping the plow comes around again tomorrow, they really do a shitty job, and it's obvious they haven't been back since before 6, maybe 7, there's a layer of fresh snow over obviously plowed spots, a lot of snow. I think that may have come by once. Now I went out and came back by 2, and from then til 10 the plow only comes once? What the hell do we pay for anyway?

So now all I'm going to do is shower, blow dry my hair so I don't have bed hair from sleeping in wet hair. I just don't dare do it in the morning, it'll add a hella lot of time on. Plus I didn't find ANYTHING in my source book in the car, I need my boss's reference, this really excellent spiral bound "hints" style book, just simple explanations. I'm seriously thinking I should buy one, she uses them all year and after. I should buy one every year, but I usually just use hers *evil grin*

There's SO much stuff I didn't do today. I just sat around, but, to be honest, that's what I should do with my day off. I can't just go and go, I'll burn out and collapse. I need a plan, and give myself permission to relax. I need to budget my time better, and I need to stick to a schedule.

Whoo, I need some retail therapy. I REALLY want new boots, and something new and pretty and fluffy would be nice. I think I sneak attack on Torrid is in order. Kamikaze, commando style. *evil grin* Plus I need a gift for Katie, her B-day is next week, I'm thinking a nice PHAT gift card is in order. That is, AFTER I get paid, and try to make a dent in some other things. I need to go shopping with Lettie, I like her style and I want to do more things with her, girly nice nice things (not in a naughty way, unless Hagen-Daas is naughty, in which case I'm downright Eeeevil, man!)