Ice Comes In

The weathermen are calling for a lot of ice on the streets tomorrow. So Momoko made me take home my work to potentially work from home tomorrow. Everything depends on the temperature when the precipitation comes. I hope it just turns out to be rain.

Today everybody in the office stayed home from work due to fear from snow. Personally it sounded more like people wanting to goof off at home. I don't have that luxury. There is a lot to do at work. It is hard to leave at the end of each day because there is so much to do. Luckily I love leaving work. So I find a way each day.

Power Outage

The power was fluctuating yesterday afternoon. We cooked and ate dinner early just in case. That turned out to be a smart idea. We lost power in the evening. The kids brought out the candles. I went to bed early because power or not, I had to go to work the next day.

The power was out all night. And it snowed. I got up real early. I shoveled a path down the driveway. Then I dug out my car from the damage the snow plow did. It took a long time. The rest of the family was asleep because school was cancelled.

Finally I got the car out. I rewarded myself with a McDonald's breakfast. During lunch I bought a couple bags of rock salt. After lunch, Kit Kat called and said the power finally came back on. Momoko pumped the heat up about 10 degrees higher than normal. We needed it.

Little Cough

I had a terrible drive home from work yesterday. There was snow falling, making the traffic bad. And a truck broke down on the road leading out of the office park. Double pain. So today I decided to work from home.

I got up early enough to see Kit Kat leave for school. Normally she leaves so early that I don't see her most mornings. After working for an hour or so, I thought I heard some noise upstairs. I figured it was just the house creaking or something.

Around lunch time I heard a cough coming from upstairs. This was strange. I saw Momoko go to work. And I was there when Kit Kat left for work. Maybe Little Kat was still home. Yup. He said he was still sick. He slept in a lot, then lounged around the house all day.

We Are Free to Roam About

Yesterday morning I woke up hearing what sounded like a snow plow. Looking out the window, I saw a guy with a small front end loader cleaning the snow on our street. It was about time. We have been snowed in for a week. I worked from home all last week.

Today I celebrated the cleared snow by going into the office for work. Everyone else had off due to President's Day. It was hectic at work. The only good thing about going in is that when I leave, I am done with work. Working from home I get calls around the clock.

There was a lot of traffic on the road when I came home. This was because it had started snowing again. The clear road on our street also allowed the UPS guy to finally come with our big package. I bought this Shark vacuum cleaner online. Kit Kat researched about found it to be the best rated vacuum in our price range. The kids were excited and have been vacuuming the house ever since I got home. Let's hope this one lasts longer then our current one.

Snowed In

This weekend we got the Blizzard of 2009. I think there was at least 20 inches of snow in our area. Even the snow plough got stuck on our street. Momoko and the kids were off from school today. But I had to head into work.

So yesterday I went out in the afternoon and tried to dig out my car. It was tough because a plough did come by and "plough me in". Eventually I cleared a path for my car to get out. I later found out this was the easy task.

Momoko was parked deeper in our driveway. There was a lot of snow shoveling to get from the curb to her car. Luckily Kit Kat came out and helped me. Then Little Kat came out, but I think he dropped more snow on the driveway than he cleared. Finally Momoko came out because she saw we needed the help. Momoko actually went out driving today in the snow. Yippee.