Friday, December 01, 2006

the bleak midwinter

Yesterday was an interesting day. Early in the morning, after being told that my work would not be open, The Hater and I decided to slide out and get some groceries before the big snow came. Slide we did, but not into anything, so that was okay.

The Hater grilled hot dogs for lunch. I made mac and cheese. This might sound boring, but really it was a big deal. We've not had hot dogs since we moved here, and mac and cheese has NEVER intentionally landed on my plate. I'm slowly trying to appreciate the world of cheese, albeit fake cheese, and although I ate some of the macaroni, it's not a culinary masterpiece I plan on making or eating again.

I've wrapped all of the Christmas presents that we'd already bought. We watched movies. I made Nana's cornbread dressing for supper.

Sometime after I sauteed the goodies for the dressing and before we decided to mull some cider for supper the stove top died. Fortunately the oven still worked. We ended up microwaving the mulled cider, which we admit was a redneck solution, but we really didn't care.

We took some of the dressing to a neighbor who lives on the other side of the complex. It was still snowing, and we found it to be between ankle-deep and shin-deep. By the time we made our way back to the apartment we had lost a scarf. The Hater told me it was too yucky in the parking lot to go to work today.

So I called my boss. She said that was fine. It's not supposed to get above freezing until 2 this afternoon. I've seen some people sliding around the apartment complex, and saw one person slide into the gate. I woke up The Hater to tell him I was feeling guilty, that maybe we could make it into work.

So far the plan remains to stay here. Even as I type I can hear people spinning wheels and scraping ice outside. They're braver than we are today.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The snow's only ankle-shin deep? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....

I mean...

Sorry. It just makes us winter-y weather veterans laugh when people freak out about a few inches of snow and don't know how to drive when the roads get a bit icy. I'm sure it is, in fact, traumatic.

:-)

Anonymous said...

One of the problems is that in states where we dont get alot of winter weather problems the cities dont have enough money and resources devoted to sand/salt trucks and winter prep equip.....so when it happens everything shuts down. But you are right most people in the south and south west dont know how to drive in winter weather either. LOL

genderist said...

Go ahead and laugh. When it's 100+ in the shade with 97% humidity, I'll outrun you...

Harrison and I don't do the snow. It might be different if he had 4WD or big monster tires.

Anonymous said...

We woke up to 8 inches Friday morning. I only like it when it is off the roads. I hate those people who cant drive or drive 2 mph cause they are scared.