This week we were visited by the snowstorm of the year-well this year, so far anyway. I was taken back to my childhood for the day as I had the same feeling I used to get back then when I would wake up to find it had snowed so much during the night that school was canceled.
I haven't had that feeling very often as an adult because my work doesn't follow the school schedule for storm closings. Instead we are given the direction to use our own discretion when deciding if it's safe to come to work. Nobody is ordered to work, but what to do if the building is open and no one is there to man it? We have one person who lives less than a mile away who always makes it in and the rest of us who live on roads that are unplowed until late in the day who really can't make it in-so I didn't.
Let me tell you about my "snow day;" first, I canceled my early morning doctors appointment, then I tried to call in, but since those who made it in were out shoveling a pathway into the building it took a few tries to reach anyone. After that I logged on and did some homework for my online class, which wasn't canceled, because-yahoo, no driving required! Ah, the benefits of online classes at Granite State College!
After that it was lunch time and I warmed up some really great leftover boiled dinner from Sunday dinner-which by the way was only better as I ate snuggled up in my chair watching the snow fall outside my window. Later on in the afternoon I was a little bored, so I baked some cookies and then I read for a while. All through the afternoon I watched the snow fall and it was so beautiful, more so since I didn't have to clean the car off or shovel a path to work.
When I think back on the first big storm of the New Year, I will remember it as my guilty pleasure-one I haven't enjoyed in a long while.
I haven't had that feeling very often as an adult because my work doesn't follow the school schedule for storm closings. Instead we are given the direction to use our own discretion when deciding if it's safe to come to work. Nobody is ordered to work, but what to do if the building is open and no one is there to man it? We have one person who lives less than a mile away who always makes it in and the rest of us who live on roads that are unplowed until late in the day who really can't make it in-so I didn't.
Let me tell you about my "snow day;" first, I canceled my early morning doctors appointment, then I tried to call in, but since those who made it in were out shoveling a pathway into the building it took a few tries to reach anyone. After that I logged on and did some homework for my online class, which wasn't canceled, because-yahoo, no driving required! Ah, the benefits of online classes at Granite State College!
After that it was lunch time and I warmed up some really great leftover boiled dinner from Sunday dinner-which by the way was only better as I ate snuggled up in my chair watching the snow fall outside my window. Later on in the afternoon I was a little bored, so I baked some cookies and then I read for a while. All through the afternoon I watched the snow fall and it was so beautiful, more so since I didn't have to clean the car off or shovel a path to work.
When I think back on the first big storm of the New Year, I will remember it as my guilty pleasure-one I haven't enjoyed in a long while.
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