well I get another snow day today.
LOVE THEM!!!!
Love being the only one here at the school, where I can clean and it stays clean for hours and hours.
(I have to look for the little things to brighten my day people!) 
There is much to do and I am ready to get started.
Yes I will have to go out and shovel snow later.
But that will be this afternoon.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
I came to work a half hour earlier than usual.
(An hour earlier than I’m suppose to be here) and shoveled snow for ninety minutes.
Right now I am thawing out as I wait to go and do breakfast for the children.
It isn’t that cold out 24 degrees but after being out there for an hour the face and fingers were starting to feel fairly frosty.
not to mention my legs through my jeans.
I’ve heard we are suppose to get more snow today and into tomorrow and strong winds tomorrow so it will be interesting if we have school tomorrow.
Time will tell I guess.
I’m ready for spring as I know everyone is, but shoveling wasn’t so bad today.
it’s beginning to look a lot like ……….Christmas……..oops nope that can’t be right it is February now so it can’t be Christmas
But it is beginning to look a lot like winter is going to stick around for quite some time.
the weatherman is predicting from three to eight inches, depending on which weather channel you listen to.
KCRG channel 9 says four to eight inches but the weather channel says 2-4
so I guess we will get what we get and just have to wait and see.
like everyone else I am ready for Spring.
this usually happens at least once a week anymore.
the work email is down and I can’t get on to it.
I suppose it isn’t that big of a deal because I do have yahoo to look at, but rarely does anyone write me on that one.
It is usually the work one.
at any rate, a couple of my sisters probably wrote me emails on my work site and it will have to wait until some time on Monday when they get it back up and running for me to read them
Sigh!
until the weather gets nicer I find my weekends to be a whole lot of nothing.
I have cabin fever
It is too cold to do anything outside and there is no money for a movie or anything fun
so we do a lot of bumming on the weekends.
I did laundry last night and will clean the house today but that will only take up a few hours.
Probably try to write and maybe read a bit.
I’m watching the girls later tonight and tomorrow night and I may go to work to do some cleaning tomorrow just to get out of the house
that might seem crazy to some people, for me to go to work since I am there five days a week but I never get any alone time here at home and I miss it, plus there is never a good time to do the gym floor during the work week (last Monday I went in an hour and ten minutes early to do it)
of course come tomorrow I may change my mind, but that is the plan right now.
Hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend.
My daughter Emily who is five months pregnant asked me to go shopping with her last night so she could walk through Target and register things she wanted for the baby.
I have to say every time we are alone, just the two of us, we crack up and get silly.
it was great fun.
We also went to Wal-Mart so she could get the basics, toilet paper, paper towels and kleenex.
I didn’t get home until after eight pm, and I went upstairs and brought my two grand daughters downstairs for a little one on one time and was back upstairs and in bed by nine thirty.
The night flew by with some pretty stupid dreams to keep me company, and before I knew it, the alarm went off and another work day has begun.
it is Friday though!
And the only way this day could be better is if it was payday as well.
But alas….it isn’t.
I am so ready for a vacation.
Just to go some place warmer than Iowa City Iowa.
ugh…this seems to be a long winter.
Usually I don’t mind it so much but this winter just seems to be dragging by.
could be because I had two vacations planned for this spring and I canceled both, so now I am feeling boxed in.
But I am ready to just run south for the rest of the winter.
Just to get some sunshine on my face, a healthy tan on my body and a clear mind.
The ocean waves are calling me.
now if only I could answer
so last night at one twenty am, I hear my grand daughter Keira crying.
I go in to talk to her and she is crying because she wanted to go sleep with her parents and her mother told her no.
I lay down with her and tried to go to sleep
She sat up once and I said “honey what is wrong?” and she said “Nana, I’m bored”
I told her it was the middle of the night and she needed to go to sleep
She said she wasn’t tired and wanted to get up.
Again I repeated it was the middle of the night and we weren’t getting up.
she sat up a couple more times and repeated that she was bored.
I don’t know how long she stayed awake or how long I was awake but it was hard to get up this morning.
now that it is over I can laugh about it but I am feeling a little tired today.
gotta love grand children!!!
I have been suffering with a sinus headache off and on for a week now.
it seems to be getting worse though instead of better.
I suppose the smart thing to do is call the doctor and get some good medicine to take it away instead of the over the counter stuff I have been using
always something with me.
or so it seems
we are sitting on hump day.
Another day has begun.
I’m at work and wishing I was lying on a beach some where soaking up the warm sunshine as it tans my body.
Sounds like heaven right about now.
Unfortunately I’m in Iowa, at work and dealing with almost zero as the temperature.
It is 2 actually.
Might as well be zero and I’m sure with the windchill it is below zero.
But this is Iowa in winter.
We have about six more weeks or so before it starts to warm up enough that we won’t be freezing, ninety percent of the time.
It is odd to me how the weather can swing people’s moods so drastically.
Don’t get me wrong, I am as sick of winter as the next person, however if you look, winter is beautiful.
Like yesterday morning after it snowed.
The snow clung to the bare trees and everything was white and clean again.
Even the birds were out singing.
Winter is my least favorite season, but….if one looks, it is beautiful and peaceful and comforting.
