amazing...

so i just checked my email, and my mom is actually planning on coming out here to visit with my grandma (her mom)! this is quite a big step for my mom. i didn't think she would come out here at all. even if i had a new grandbaby for her. which i don't! don't start thinking that! this will be her first time flying in YEARS! maybe even decades! ok, maybe one decade and a half. i don't want to make me sound older than i am. they are coming in the summer right before we go on vacation. it will be a change for her and i don't know if we would be able to take her into the mountains much because she gets motion sickness, i think. at least that is what she told us so she wouldn't go on rollar coasters. so that will be exciting! i won't be able to miss work for her visit since all my vacation was used for the wedding and our vacation this summer. oh well. at least she is coming out and i shouldn't complain! well, it's not set in stone, so i'm not going to get all excited about it, but i am rather surprised! anyway, i wanted to share. see when my husband works late, i live on blogger. off to read about the journey of a rider and his dragon to get training done! hope rohan can survive! =)

snow pictures

thought i would share some pictures off my NEW DIGITAL CAMERA! yes, i just got a digital. i wanted a good one, and haven't had the money, but santa pulled through and got one for me! it rocks! it has a snow setting, so i was able to take pretty good pictures. these are from the first snowfall last week.

we had to dig ourselves out of our cal-de-sac (learned how to spell it!) because, as i said, plows don't know our road. this is a view from our house upstairs. the semi-plowed road is to the right. put some neighbors together and this is what you get!

This is a picture of the foothills. there was an overcast over the "high country" so we couldn't get really good pictures of those. so this will have to do, but still awesome! when the sun is out, you can't tell what mountain is what! it's all together.

This one is from the back yard of my co-worker's house where i stayed last night because the drive was too bad for me to go home. she lived around the corner from work.

so are these pictures inviting? see what you are missing by staying in ohio? you should come (when there isn't a storm) and enjoy the snow!!! and yes, this new camera means more pictures in my blogs! oh! and johng, my husband got me the series of harry potter! paperback, but i got it! thought of you and hope all your readings are going well! =) miss you ohio!

3 feet to 5 feet

that is how much snow we have around our house. we were told we just got 2 feet, but with all the drifts, we surpassed it! we had a 5 foot drift along the back of our house, and 2 ft of it were actually along the screen door. i looked at our cat and told him it was a good thing he was not a dog or he wouldn't be going potty! we have drifts that are almost over our fences. we shoveled at least 3 ft off our driveway. we live in a caldasac, i don't know how to spell it, and apparently we don't ever get plowed. so our one neighbor was determined to get out thursday so he shoveled from his driveway to the other road. it's not far but with three feet of snow, whew! we were at our neighbors house when he finished and when we were walking home, my husband shoveled from our driveway to the pathway. and so eventually did all the other neighbors. it is quite a sight! most of the roads were drivable today. the sun was out most of the day and helped to melt the snow, however, a lot of it just froze again and we are supposed to get flurries tomorrow! i still need to go shopping for my husband which i don't know if he deserves anything right now, but i'll get him stuff anyway. i'll have to get up early to do it so we can spend the day together (again, not sure if he's worthy of such treatment). then i have to work christmas eve. then it will be christmas, and then life will get normal again. it's like a roller coaster. those who really look forward to christmas and all the meanings behind it, take that really long track up a really steep hill. the chains going clink, clank, clink, clank, as you slowly reach the top. then on christmas eve, you just hang over the top of the hill, like you are in the first car (best seat ever!) then christmas day comes and you are down the hill, going 60 miles an hour and then it's over in a matter of minutes, or a day in this case. then you get off and start all over. i know. strange comparison,but somebody has to be odd! =) i guess i should go to bed early now so i can my husband his unworthy gifts. oh and if you want to know what he did, or didn't do, i'll tell you. i had to work tonight at my second job and was going to go to kohls since it's open till midnight. well, i don't know his shirt size so i called, and called, and called both phones. even left a message on both phones. did he answer any of them? NO! what if i was in a snowdrift or something? it's still not the safest of driving conditions! then to top it off, i get home and find that he deleted the message on the home phone and obviously was too lazy to go back downstairs and get his cell so he could be on it for two minutes to tell me what size dress shirt he wears. i'm so irritated. anyway, happy holidays!

SNOW DAY!!!

I did not make it to work today. i tried, but i failed. you see, there is this huge snow storm coming from the east (which is odd) and bringing with it 12 hours of snow!!!!!!!! yeah. so the wind started at 4:30 this morning. i woke up and never fell back asleep. so i got up and got ready for work. by this time, there was snow on the ground, but not a whole lot, and most of it was blowing off the roads. so i venture out to work and the main road was alright. tire tracks are always nice. so i get on the highway and hello crappy! i made it to the next exit ( a couple miles) and convinced myself to get off and go home. it was just getting worse and i wanted to live today. so i turn around and come home. which was even worse than when i was heading to work! and so now i am home, not getting paid, and catching up on things! i feel bad that i didn't go in. i feel like a chicken too since i did grow up in ohio and i know how to drive in this stuff. but i am home now and i am staying. my husband went to work, but he doesn't have to go on the highway! which you would think would be better, but it's not. and unlike ohio, we don't have levels here, so they are just advising people to stay home instead of issuing a level 3. they've closed I-70 from outside denver to kansas. denver is in a blizzard. the snow hurts on the face, but it's also pushed by strong winds. if it wasn't so windy it would be a perfect day to ski! fresh snow! it's so peaceful falling when the wind isn't blowing. but i'm not going skiing since i didn't go to work. although i'm sure there are a lot of people that ditched work to go ski! must be nice. i finally gave in and is letting my husband get me the Suburu that he wanted to get me next year. yeah, i need that all wheel drive without being in an suv. experienced that this morning! i wish my husband didn't go in. they we could cuddle all day and drink hot chocolate and watch movies and stuff! but no, he went anyway. did i mention that by 10:30 there was already 4 inches on the drive? we are expected 9 inches by 3 and a foot by 10. at least a foot, if not more. and we are supposed to get 1-2 feet total! fun times! i miss snow!

Moshposh

That's my new word. i love it.and that is pretty much what this blog is going to be. i don't have much to say right now. had no purpose of writing a blog today. no one seems to leave comments on what i say. now don't go starting to leave comments because i miss them. i just want you to leave them when you want to. everyone is busy getting holiday stuff i'm sure. i'm almost done, but that's because half of it i have to ship across country. i haven't written in a while so i thought i would at least leave something. i did get my wedding pictures back! yeay! there was one picture that just made me cry instantly. it's a picture of my brother and i after we just did our brother/sister dance, and he is holding my hands straight down in front of us and is kissing me on the forehead. why would i cry at that? because it's my brother and it's just that sibling closeness that we have that for him to do that is very meaningful. ah, my little brother. see! i even made myself cry right now! anyway, that is one of my most favorite pictures! he's so getting that for christmas! if i can get them printed in time! this christmas is going to be the first i have ever been away from my family. it's going to be wierd. but i look at it this way, it's a great way for my husband and i to start our own things, and enjoy the company of each other every holiday. because i know down the road it won't be so quiet. so far the cat is being good with the tree and lights. knock on wood. now we will see how he does with the gifts! the snow has finally melted from the front of our house. the mountains are still beautiful with the snowcaps. can't travel much in them though. at least this weekend. we will get snow again on sunday. the day i have to work. i think i am going to start taking voice lessons again. i miss singing, and i'm a little rusty now. i haven't sung in over a year! for those who know, sound of music was my last show! i'm going through theatre withdraw. i'm getting hives. my feet are itching. my ears are growing green. must get on stage!!!! ok. none of that is happening, but it would be funny if theatre effected me that way! not much else to say! not a whole lot going on in my head. well, there's lots going on in my head, but i don't feel like sharing. the whole christmas thing. i'm sure there are tons of blogs talking about the spirit or no spirit or whatever they believe or feel like complaining about. and that just bothers me. the complaining part. so i will just keep it to myself for now. actually i haven't really been in the christmas kind of mood! just a different place and it's just and adjustment i'll have to get used to. eventually it will happen! miss you ohio! O-H! I-O!! GO BUCKS!