I hate s**w days

It's Central TX. It is not supposed to s**w!! I hate this stuff. *sigh* The kids loved it though.

Only Bear got out of school early. He FINALLY finished his community service for the next door neighbor (I let him have over a friend to help him). He spent the rest of the evening doing "school work" - I really think this is BS and an excuse to play on the internet, but didn't want to mess with it.

None of my kids or my niece and nephew have mittens and coats so they used socks instead. They built a couple of snow men using all the snow they could scrape up from the yard. Threw lots of snowballs. And had a blast.

Kitty brought in half the neighborhood girls to warm up. She tried to give them hot chocolate, but it was gone. They kept begging me to turn on the gas fireplace.

Bob nailed Ponito with a snowball (it apparently hurt him), but came in furious because the neighbor boy pelted her with snowballs and she'd never even thrown one at him. I explained she'd started it by throwing the first snow ball, but she went to pout in her room (and do homework).

Finally had to drag Ponito in by his frozen, numb fingers and make him change to warm dry clothes.

Hubby is teaching scuba all week so I'm "single parenting" - not my favorite thing. I don't drive in s**w so I worked from home all day. Might be why I didn't have a lot of patience for Kitty.

I really hope this stuff goes away soon. It's hard to pretend it's sand when it's right there on the ground and my car. Plus, I refuse to drive in it, and I need to go to work. The kids have 2 hour Late Starts tomorrow and Hubby has to go to work on time so I'll have to take them all to school.

I need a Snuggie!

I need a Snuggie

An absolutely hilarious blogger, Kristina over at Pulsipher Predilections, frequently talks about the Snuggie. The Snuggie is a blanket with sleeves or a robe worn backward, it is not an attractive fashion statement, but I need me some Snuggie!

You see I work in an old building. One side, my side, is always in the shade, or the air conditioner works better, or something. Either way, it is always Too Cold freezing.

Poor Hubby, who is already hot-natured (get your dirty minds out of the gutter! Or is that just me?!), works in what we call The Fishbowl. This room is almost all windows and is always a good 10-15 degrees warmer than anywhere else in the building. For him the building is always Too Hot.

The designers and engineers work in the middle of the building where apparently the temperature is Just Right. They are the ones who make the magic, so they have to be happy.

So I drive to and from work in my non-air conditioned ancient Blazer (which is key to SUV therapy, but otherwise not so great in the Texas Summer heat). Then freeze all day trying to blog work with a blanket wrapped around me. I have to dress professionally in case anyone comes into the office unexpectedly, but the only pants that fit my ever enlarging derriere are black. Not fun in the Texas sun.


This week outside temperatures got up to 107. I've already gotten several sunburns from sticking my arm out the window trying to wave in cooler air (this does not work when you're stuck in rush hour traffic next to a semi by the way!). I would love to be able to wear a bikini or better yet, nothing at all, but... I've decided that is just not a good idea!

So what do you think? Should I get a Snuggie or Slanket (my doesn't that sound sleezy) to wear at work? I wonder how hard it would be to make it look more professional? What do you think? Instead of red or blue, maybe I could make one out of...











Orange cow fabric! Not very sophisticated, but orange is the company's signature color.












No?!



Well how about these cool Pistachio Polka dots. They're a little more sophisticated, if not subtle.







Multi-colored art? Again, not subtle, but we're a design studio so this should be good right?

You know what?! There just isn't a way to make the Snuggie look sophisticated and professional. Guess I'm just going to have to go with Plan B.