I'm sitting at work (no biggie...I said I was going to)...I'm here really early though. It's 6am on Christmas Eve and I'm at work. It's only because Brian had to drop me off before he went to work, SO...hehe, that would explain why I am here.

We were going to take the truck to work this morning, but low and behold, it got stuck in the driveway again, so we had to take the Explorer. The only reason we were taking the truck was because Brian's dad was against driving the truck down to the Springs, but what do you do when you have to be to work and you can't get out of the driveway? Take the car that can get out of the driveway...that's what I say.

Anyway, my mom sent all my Christmas presents yesterday, so I went over to my house and opened them. YAY! She sent me stuff from IKEA. I love IKEA, but we don't have one in Denver, so it really sucks...She sent me a catalog too so I could look through it. She also sent me one of the most awesome things EVER. I opened a present which I knew was a book and I noticed it was Pillars of the Earth and it was a hardcover version and I was like "oh cool...I've got about 3 versions of this book, so I have another one, but this one's hardcover." Well, I was talking to my mom last night and she was telling me that the book she sent was a first edition (so, it came from the first printing of the book) AND it's autographed by the author. HELL YEAH! You know, just having a first edition book is fantastic but to have it autographed by Ken Follett himself is just MORE THAN FANTASTIC!

Anyway, I better get working...I've got lots of stuff to do today.

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and I was supposed to be working, but it didn't really happen that way.

We woke up and Brian was going to drop me off at my work and then go to his work. Well, his mom was bound and determined to go and pull the truck out of the driveway. Let me describe the truck - Ford Ranger, rear wheel drive = not so good driving in the snow. Brian had dug it out yesterday and was able to back it out of the driveway because he knows what he's doing in the snow. His mom, went out there and backed it out of the driveway and got it stuck in the driveway. We're sitting inside getting shoes and whatnot and you can just hear her out in the driveway spinning the tires on it creating ice like you wouldn't believe. SO, Brian goes out there and tries to back it out of the driveway and it's thoroughly stuck. He eventually got it to the point that I thought he was going to get it out of the driveway, but he backed up and it stalled (it's a stick) and got stuck even worse back behind the first place it got stuck. We're sitting there trying to figure out how we're going to get to work and all that and I can just see Brian was all frustrated. THEN, a super nice man in a nice big rig truck drove up Pecos street and stopped to help Brian. He hooked up a chain and pulled Brian right out on Pecos and off to work he went.

I called my work and told them I'd work tomorrow on the W-9 project we're doing and get that all squared away. I'm not doing anything for Christmas Eve. My entire family lives in Washington State (minus two of my mom's aunts who I never see, but probably should) and then everyone else is driving down to Colorado Springs. I really have no desire to sit in a car for an hour driving down to the Springs. It's not that I don't want to go spend Christmas with Brian's grandma and the rest of his family, I just don't want to be an hour away from my hospital just in case something DOES happen. My friend Melissa invited me to go to Cheyenne, Wyoming to spend Christmas with her family, but to be honest, I do not want to spend an hour in the car going the other direction to get to Wyoming. SO, I'm going to work and stay home and just enjoy the quiet time. Brian is going to stay here rather than go to Colorado Springs so I am not alone and that is it.

But anyway, I think this entry is long enough. I'm going to help Brian's mom make cookies and then probably relax the rest of the day until Brian gets off work. OH HOW EVENTFUL...

OH, and in a side note...if ya'll didn't read my shoutbox thing, Princess_00 had her baby on December 19th! I had noticed an absence from posting and the first thing I thought of was "BABY!!!" Ya'll should drop her a line and wish her congratulations

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Well, if you read my entry from yesterday afternoon, you saw that my car was buried hella in the snow.

Brian tried to come dig me out, but by the time he was able to get there, it was getting dark and it was pointless to sit there and try to dig the beast out. I ended up going to his house and he was going to drive me to work in the morning since they dug his car out.

SO, this morning...we're backing out of the driveway to make it to work and the snow had frozen up behind the car on the driveway - well...on the way out, we must have bottomed out on the back of the driveway on the way out on all the ice stuff and we definitely ripped something off the bottom of his car. We know for sure that we ripped the emergency break off as you can now basically push it down and nothing happens. The car doesn't stay in one spot anymore or nothing. We also think something else is ripped off underneath there as we attempted to drive up the street and all you could hear was a flapping noise like something was hitting the ground with every rotation of something. It almost sounded like a rubber hose or something. Brian's dad thinks that he ripped off the oil pan or something like that...EITHER WAY, we figured it'd be safer if we were not out on the road just in case his car decided to take a shit and we were stuck somewhere. There'd be no one to come and get us and it'd be stupid.

I called into work and explained my situation. I stated I could get into work this morning if someone could come and pick me up. We'll see if that happens. I have talked to one of the ladies at work already and she said she would come and get me if they told me I needed to come in, but I e-mailed my manager as well as called her on the phone and let her know that I would be more than willing to work tomorrow and Sunday to make up the time for not working yesterday and today and then I could complete the project she gave me in complete silences (with no interuptions). We'll see if she goes for that idea instead of me coming in today and probably being interupted a bajillion times. I only got 3 completed on Wednesday because I was interupted so many times within an hour. I have 2 packets of information to go through of probably 30 forms, so the fact that I got 3 done in an hour is not an impressive number at all.

SO, now i'm just waiting for the phone call from work...*crosses fingers*

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Did it really deserve to be buried this soon? I know it's near death and all that, but seriously...it could have made it a little longer!



Here's the sidewalk...knee deep snow (and of course, all the cars covered in snow, one being mine).

Brian is going to come over and help me dig my car out of the snow so I can get to work tomorrow morning. As far as I know, we're still open tomorrow, so I need to dig the car out to get out.

Phew...I think this is the most snow I've seen in my whole entire life. It hardly ever snows in Washington, so this was the snow we never got in Washington...lol

I don't think I like it.

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I got a call from my boss last night at about 10pm stating that we did not have to come into work today (as it snowed all night) and well, the snow just kept coming last night. In fact, I just went outside to take some pictures, and it's still snowing as we speak. It's supposed to keep snowing until about noon or so.

Here's my new pictures from this morning:


These are cars in the town homes next to me - the snow has piled up/drifted up past the hoods on their cars. They're literally buried!


Here's the snow piled up almost to the top of that tree trunk before the branches start.


I think someone at the apartment building specifically went out and dug out the gutters, but even that, it really didn't help all that much.


Snow piled up to the top of the A/C units.


Same cars I took a picture of last night...now they're completely covered on the bottom.


Here's a picture of the lady on the news...she's up to waist deep in the snow...hehe, it's just a drift though.


AND, here it is piled up on my roof outside my kitchen. Sorry about the window and the screen.

SO, those are my new snow pictures.

I'll be staying in today avoiding the bad driving conditions and all that. Everything is closed around here, but even if I could get it out, what would be the point? There is no point!

Anyway, enjoy your day if you're at home...and hopefully, if you're working, your day isn't treating you too bad!

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They sent us home from work early (I don't blame them) - we're getting some not so hot weather.

Per the weather center, this is our nice warning:

A blizzard warning remains in effect until 12 pm mst Thursday.
Snow, heavy at times, will continue through tonight. Total accumulations of 10 to 20 inches are expected in most locations by Thursday morning. As much as 2 feet of snow will fall in the southern suburbs and palmer divide area.
North winds increasing to around 25 mph with frequent gusts up to 40 mph especially east of i-25 will produce blizzard conditions.
Travel is rapidly becoming extremely hazardous and will likely become impossible this afternoon. Travel is not recommended through Thursday morning.

The roads were a complete nightmare on the way home from work. I canceled my doctor's appointment because the roads are just getting WORSE and WORSE!

I'm watching the news and they're closing down our major freeways and whatnot. I-70 (the major freeway from east to west going through Denver) just closed all the way to the Kansas border...I-25 (the major freeway that runs north and south through Denver) is closed in both directions going through Colorado Springs (which is about an hour south of Denver).

Ugh...did I mention that I really hate the snow?

I went out and tried my camera (which now appears to be working and not being retarded)...and I took a few pictures. I'm not going to be going anywhere for a few days...


It has drifted up to about waist deep by the dumpster outside (that's that brick structure thingy)


Here is piled up behind cars and whatnot


Look at that car with all the snow on it...it probably hasn't been out all day and that's a helluva lot of snow!

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Snow tomorrow...snow Thursday...all in the morning (WHY THE MORNING?!) I am not looking forward to it, but oh well...I have no control over when the snow comes and when it does not.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at lunch...I hope all of that goes well. You'd think I'd be tired of going to the doctor's office, but to be honest, I love my doctor's office and I enjoy going there (even though I've peed in the cup a bajillion times). Pretty soon here, I'll be done with going to the doctor for myself and my poor baby will be going all the time...lol...I like the role reversal there.

Someone at work had one of her friends make me a nice baby blanket. It was very sweet of her and I always appreciate blankets. Heck, I have TONS of blankets for myself, so it's only right for my baby to have them :) It'll make my friend happy as it has dump trucks and construction equipment on it. She always complains that he has too many clothes with cute animals on them and the baby needs some stuff with sports and tools on it. SO, now he has a blanket with construction vehicles on it.

Other than that, I got a bunch of Christmas cards in the mail today. My friend Melissa (who lives down the street from me) sent me a card in the mail...it's a little kitty too. I have a feeling she didn't think I had enough kitty things in my life, so now I have a Christmas card with one on it. I'm gonna put it on my fridge :) I also got another one from my Grandma Sugar (she's not really my grandma...she's my cousin's grandma...but she has always treated my brother and I like she was our grandma, so we call her Grandma Sugar). It was nice hearing from her as I've not seen her since I graduated high school I think and I was hoping to see her at my baby shower, but she wasn't able to make it. Maybe I can see her when I go home in July. I also got a Christmas card from invisibleinkling and etheracide. Very nice of them to send me something :) I love getting cards in the mail! I love penpals!!

Anyway, I think I'm gonna watch Jeopardy and lounge around...gotta try and get comfortable some how...darn baby making my hips hurt!

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For my self loathing last night. I don't know if it's just this whole baby thing or what. I'm getting all emotional for nothing. I ended up crying myself to sleep last night because I was trying to call Brian to apologize for being so moody and all that and he wouldn't answer his phone (he turned it off when we were in the theater and didn't turn it back on). I eventually got a hold of him, but I still felt like shit and all...ah well, today's a new day.

We went and saw Eragon. I thought it was an okay movie, but since Brian read the books, he had to nit-pick it apart. I knew he wasn't going to enjoy it, but he wanted to see it anyway...so we did.

Oh well...

Anyway, I'll elaborate more later.

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