HELLS YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So last night I went to bed and sent a wish to whoever would listen that there would indeed be a snow day. Not a 2-hour delay. An actual snow day. So I woke up once, in eager anticipation, at 3:45 this morning all aglow – but remembering, through the foggy haze of being actually up at that time of day, that Cheyenne Mountain does not in fact update the Snow Line until sometime around 4-4:30 in the morning. So I went back to happy sleep, listening to the roar of the wind against my house. I drifted awake sometime around 5:30 in the morning, when I normally wake up to go to work. I reached for the cell phone; I dialed the Snow Line phone number; I held my breath….
And these words issued forth from my blue RAZR phone:
“Currently, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station is CLOSED except for mission-essential personnel….”
After that, I have no idea what was said. I did the happy dance and rejoiced. Now you may think, well, you still have to go to work tomorrow because the weather is supposed to get better, and in fact, as I look out my window, indeed the visibility is getting better and the sun actually peeked out a few minutes back. But you’d be wrong, foolio. Because tomorrow is an AFSPC Family Day (the one thing that AFSPC does that I can actually agree with…), meaning this Snow Day has inaugurated my Christmas Five-Day Weekend, and nary any of my own (very limited) leave was taken to do it! sweet…. I love snow days.
Snow Day – 21 Dec 2006
Cold, snowy, and best of all, view from HOME!
Plowed roads? not for a another day or so
Depending on which way your house faced, you could have huge snow drifts like this guy
And here's my sparsely covered driveway
And here's where I am RIGHT NOW while typing this up.So while I’m typing away, I am literally blasting the latest Beatles’ album out, entitled LOVE. If you enjoy their music, then I definitely recommend you picking this up. It’s the soundtrack to the latest Cirque du Soleil show out at The Mirage in Vegas, which is set entirely to The Beatles’ music. It’s not covers of the songs either, this is all original tracks mixed by their original producer, Sir George Martin. It’s an incredible listen, as he has reworked many of their songs into very interesting combinations. And while those combinations are what many reviewers rave about (as they are quite good), it’s just the clarity of the music that really is amazing. It literally sounds like these songs were recorded this year. And there’s nothing quite as fun as singing along to many of these tracks – for me, I absolutely love rocking out to “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, “Eleanor Rigby” (I guess I’m not quite rocking out to that song, but it’s so good), “Octopus’ Garden”, and “Revolution”. There are so many of their great songs here though, I’m sure you’ll find others you like too.
I also watched my favorite Christmas movie last night – “Elf”. Always by the end I’m full of the Christmas spirit when Santa finally gets his Clausometer pegged to the max because everyone believes again. It’s such a great movie.
Before heading to sleep, I started a new book, this one Stephen King’s latest entitled Lisey’s Story. Just a few chapters into it and I’m hooked. It’s got nothing but good reviews from people, and with the promising beginning, I’m sure I’ll be done with it before the 5-day weekend is over. I’ll report on it’s goodness at that time.
Anyways, just wanted to check in again and let you know I’m surviving through the snow. I’m not planning on going outside again till later (when hopefully the roads are a bit better), but I will need groceries soon. Very soon. 🙂
Funny, the song “Here Comes the Sun” from the LOVE album just came on. Appropriate, methinks.