I am hereby announcing a Snow Day. As I don’t feel much like writing a witty post today, I am giving myself a Snow Day. Reasoning? My imagination has white-out. As this is the case, I figure everything I write today will need wite-out. Therefore, the Snow Day.
You too are allowed in on this.
You can do just a one-hour delay thing - the schools need that extra bit of time to schedule the shoveling of the front walks so the kiddies don’t slip. Your imagination needs the bit of extra time for the cup of coffee that will shovel out the fatigue so you don’t write drivel all morning.
Or you can do the two-hour delay deal - the roads are icy and slick but the temperature is rising and if the buses just don’t have to tangle with the rush-hour crazies, all will be fine. The ole typing fingers woke up a bit creaky and the extra cup of coffee won’t quite cut it. Maybe hitting snooze three times, the extra coffee, and a 15 minute blast of Pinky and the Brain cartoons might make traveling to the land of File Open safer.
Or did you ever think about an early dismissal? Gotta clear out at about 12:45 because this storm isn’t playing nice and we want to get out of the parking lot and off the highway way before all the kooks out there who seem to actually like driving in gray slush and wind-driven white are all over the road. Sometimes nothing beats the prospect of getting to work while knowing those fat flakes are soon going to be falling, that you’ll be able to look out the window about halfway through the day’s assigned task and say, “Screw it - I’m going sleddling. And then, damn it, I’m making cocoa. With a whole handful of mini-marshmallows.”
Or, like me on this horribly blustery day, when the traffic is stopped, cars canted on shoulders at the side of the highway, salt truck spraying, plowtruck pushing, warming engines smoking in every driveway - ah, listen to the sound of people scraping off their windshields - it’s just a day to reach in, turn off the ignition and give yourself a snow day. Don’t take off the pjs, don’t fix your hair, watch endless hours of the reports of how prepared the state snow removal people are (translate: go read other writers’ blogs), and don’t even go down that icy path called File Open.
Okay, maybe you can sprinkle a little salt in its general direction, just to keep it from being an utter mess tomorrow. But save the shoveling until the storm stops at least. And maybe it will all just melt away overnight.
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ahhhhhh, sounds wonderful!
I’ll opt for the full-day off too.
Now, can we make this a reality, somehow?
by Laura
on February 21st, 2008 at 6:37 am
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Laura, I think there should be an MWA or SinC mandated snow day once each February at least.
That said, I can’t believe it’s almost March! Doesn’t matter what the weather is like in March, I can still tell myself we’re that close to spring.
Enjoy your cocoa!
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Cocoa, did I say cocoa?
It’s funny, but after I posted my comment, I started to wish I’d picked early dismissal because of the cocoa. 
LOL. Nice to know I can have it with a full day off!
by Laura
on February 21st, 2008 at 7:38 am
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With the sleet and snow coming in I want the full day option but it’s not to be. I have a test this afternoon that I can’t make up until next year and it’s money driven. 
Two tests in a week. That’s more like finals week at school rather than work.
Save some cocoa for me. I think I’ll need a shot of Kaluha in it when I finally get home through the road mess.
by Lynn
on February 21st, 2008 at 7:44 am
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I love snow days. PJs all day, except for the sledding, hot cocoa, and maybe french toast for dinner.
And, as luck would have it, here in the Heartland, we’re actually getting one!
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Ok, I changed my mind. Snow day for me as well. When they are saying a 15 minute commute is taking 2 hours and I have an hour, just doesn’t make sense to take the chance.
I’m going for the cocoa right now.
by Lynn
on February 21st, 2008 at 8:58 am
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Judy, Laura, I hope you didn’t have to drive in it like I did. It’s worse in the South County area. I called the Corporate Severe Weather Hotline and, of course, it said the company is running on normal business hours.
Minutes after I got to work, an e-mail came across that the offices would open at 9:30. WooHoo.
My mind was on turning back everytime my wheels spun out. My sporty car is not geared for driving on ice.
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Be safe out there guys! And I say cocoa is good just about any time but definitely after icy roads - then the Kaluha is a required addition for sure - after the icy roads, of course.
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I loved the analogy, Regina! Ah, the good old days of being a kid. School’s closed and we’re out building snow forts until our fingers are numb. A half-hour break for cocoa and back at it. Writing snow days sound even better, and no numb fingers. =o)
Be safe everyone who’s in a snow storm area today. (And every day.)
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Oh, snow days. How I miss snow days. Here in North Carolina we don’t get many snow days. Not since Al Gore invented global warming. Damn you, Al Gore.
But I can dream of hot chocolate, cartoons on TV, reading until nap time, and then a long walk in the snow with a dog that loves the cold.
How about a board game? I vote for Clue.
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I have to say, given the miserably cold winter we’ve been having, I’m having trouble believing in global warming (it’s a joke . . . I know the planet is at risk. I recycle. I use low impact whatever light bulbs. I promise).
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We used to load up home movies after sledding on snow days. Nothing like naked baby butts and tongues sticking out to make the cocoa sweeter!
But Clue sounds good - Sorry is my fave, however.
The only thing good about global warming is that the blizzard always seems to melt by the next day.
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Yeah! Clue and Sorry. I’m so glad I stayed home. If we play Monopoly, I get to be the car.
by Lynn
on February 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
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I was always a tophat kinda gal, though I liked the scottie dog too!
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I was the dog.
My brother was the car.
My sister was the horse.
My father was the top hat.
My mother, bless her, was always the iron.
Even as a kid in a prefeminist time, we thought that was a bum deal.
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Judy, as a daytime Environmental Engineer I’m glad to hear about your attempts to help the environment.
If you want to read a fiction diatribe on global warming, read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Actually, I think Al Gore’s video “An Inconvenient Truth” might also be a fictional video diatribe.
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Karen Dionne, the founder of Backspace Writers forum, has another one coming out next fall - Freezing Point, about an environmental activist and some evil dudes.
So what would be the pieces for the Inconvenient Truth version of Monopoly? I’ve got it - I’ll be melting polar ice and you can be freak winter tornadoes!
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