snOMG!

"The blogosphere is blowing up!" Usually when I hear that quote, it is coming from Whitney and it relates to a Jonas brothers' marriage or something equally important. This time it's blowing up with the official announcement that the Federal Government is closed tomorrow. I'm siked for my second snow day this winter - it will make trudging through the 23 inches of gross, dirty snow much more bearable come Tuesday. For now, I'm cuddling up and watching the Super Bowl with Brian and not even worrying about waking up in the morning!

image from DCist.com

DC vs. Winter

This morning, after getting pretty solid confirmation from the Capital Weather Gang that it will, in fact, snow again this week, the DCist published this drawing. I feel it sums up my feelings on this overly-snowy winter quite well. It was all pretty in the beginning, and it was great to get out of work for a day, but this weekend snow is quickly wearing on my patience. I hate having to walk through piles of black gross slush on my way to get food, go to work, or go see Brian. In the meantime I will get ready for yet another snowy weekend. Time to go buy more hot chocolate!

image from DCist.com

Snowpocalypse 2k9

So it snowed two weeks ago. And it was fabulous.

In total, we got a little over 20" in Arlington. I'm pretty sure that is more snow than I have ever seen in my entire life. Of course, there was the blizzard of '96 which got me out of two entire weeks of 5th grade, but Brian has reminded me that it was mostly ice. Plus, this storm shut down the entire Federal Government (except the Senate who was snowed in to work on the Health Care bill - bahaha) and my office, which is way better than a snow day in elementary school.

Being the genius I am, I decided to invite myself over to Whitney's house so we could be snowed in together and watch movies and eat Rum-Tum-Diddy (Whit was appalled to learn that this is not a known food, and that her mother, in fact, made it up. It consists of tomato soup, cheese, and crackers all mixed together to make a cheesey tomato-y delicious dish). Between servings of RTD, we ventured out in the snow a few times and I was able to snap some pictures. I have also stolen a few from DCist...

The above and below pictures, as well as the one at the top of this entry, are from DCist.

...pictures from me will come as soon as I upload them from my camera...