days like today...

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When I look out my office window, this is what I see. Kind of. Except this is a picture off of the internet...but it's close. It's foggy, gloomy, chilly, rainy, windy.

But this afternoon it's supposed to be warm(er), sunny, and windy. The only part about that I don't like is {windy}. Wind and my hair just don't play nicely. Windy days make me want to shave my head... but I'll never bring myself that far.

There is one good thing about this weather - but let me set the stage for you first. Our office has low wall cubes (read - 3' walls...we can all look at each other while sitting at our desk) Some people have offices and some people who aren't "good enough" to have an office but are "too good" for low walls have 5' walls.

I have a 3' wall because I'm just a kid - understandable.

I sit in a little annex on the floor. There are 4 cubes tucked away over here - 2 low, 2 high. And then some printers. It's kind of in a corner so there are windows behind me and to my right (they wrap around the building). To my left is a long hallway (where the big dogs sit) and the break room.

Here's an old picture - this is the cube to my right and the windows to my right. And a great example of (a) how low the cube walls are and (b) how ridiculously close we sit. I can answer his phone without getting out of my chair.

Normally I can't see anyone coming down the hallway or walking up behind me while I'm working. Except when the weather is crappy - then the windows act like mirrors and I can see everything. I can hear you coming AND I can see you coming. It's kind of cool - especially when we had folks who used to work here and got a kick out of sneaking up on people. Definitely un-cool.

And there's your random tidbit for the day.

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Snow!

Our little town was a winter wonderland on Sunday. Well, it actually started off as a cold, miserable winter rain that turned into even colder and perhaps more miserable winter sleet. Then as we were enjoying some wine and cooking dinner with Mark & Jean - huge (and I mean HUGE) snow flakes were falling. We ventured out into the neighborhood while it was merely sleeting and the roads were really slushy. We all thought that was going to be the extent of the "snow" that upstate SC was going to see.

Boy, were we wrong! We ended up with 6.5" of snow! I don't think I have ever seen that much snow in.my.life. Except for in people pictures... First of all, I couldn't imagine this being a weekly or even bi-weekly occurrence - although I'm sure if I used to live in upstate New York like the nice folks two doors down we'd have a different ball game.

Slightly blurry, but cute picture of us in front of our house all bundled up. This is before the REAL snow showed up!

Mark and Jean's driveway.

Mark had to hop a flight to Texas bright and early Monday morning. I think the flight left at 6:30am? We all swore up and down that there was no way our little airport would be prepared for this. And surely there was no way the runway would be clear at 6:30 in the morning. Boy, were we wrong! He left on time and left this world of snow for something like 85 degree weather in the middle.of.no.where Texas.

But Sunday night as Dauge and I were heading back to our house to get ready for bed (and work...boo!) We told Mark and Jean that they just had to come outside! We ended up building a little snow man and then we tried to make a couple other snowmen but the balls of snow were so big we couldn't pick them up! Trent and Jennifer were out and about too, so the six of us played in the snow and acted like kids for about an hour. Trent rolled a snow ball all the way down the street and it was probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter. It was ridiculous!

L to R: Dauge, me, Trent, Jennifer, Mark, and Jean

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Blown away!

We have been having some crazy, crazy weather lately! Last week it was freezing! This week? I have worn short sleeves to work and a light coat. Insane!

To top it all off, tonight when I got home I was making myself some dinner and our weather radio that we got from my super cool sister started alarming. According to the man in the little box there was a thunderstorm headed our way. Nothing abnormal about that (except that it's February). Then he said that it's traveling at 60mph. Wha?! Seriously?

Well, for The Mr.'s birthday I gave him a little weather station. Why? Well, really because he just wanted one. Now I realize how much he loves this thing. I told him at Christmas that I typically give him crap-tastic gifts except for the Wii (which he ended up finding first) and the surround speakers (which, let's face it...he picked them out, ordered them, and had them installed...the only way I was associated was because my name is on the bank account too). So I rocked it for the birthday.


So 60mph winds AND a new weather station? Rock on. I don't think our little wind meter can really measure 60mph...plus it's kind of close to the ground so that effects it too. It's in our front yard and people ask us what it is all the time...




The highest wind reading I could get was a 14mph gust (you can see it in the circle). The highest average wind speed it showed was 11 mph (that was where the 6 is). I couldn't get my camera fast enough to capture that though. Wind is tricky! You have to catch it while you can! I like Dauge's toy almost as much as he does!

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