Hell has frozen over

And if you look at the weather, you will see that Central Illinois has as well. Because of the deep freeze, we are hanging out at home today and I was playing *GASP* Christmas Music! Of course it was Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Carol of the Bells



and I followed it up with Green Day's Minority



but hey, take what you can get LOL

This sucks

It sucks that, despite having a nice day off of a school and the weather being beautiful, we couldn't play at the park. Not for lack of trying mind you. We took the kids to the park this afternoon where they ran and enjoyed themselves, and miracle of miracles managed to play together well, with no fighting. Unfortunately, our fun was interupped by the God awful Pirate bugs. Although I must point out that pirates don't bite so they totally misnamed. RF and were hanging out at the picnic table and we made it almost 45 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore. So we are back home, stuck in the house, watching TV instead of being out enjoying the weather. :( I wish it would frost one night, like tonight to get rid of them and then go back to be decent daytime weather.

Flattened

We were supposed to go blueberry picking this morning but when I woke up to thunder and lightening at 3:30, I decided that even if it was raining when it was time to leave, I probably wouldn't go. I needed to go to the farmer's market anyway, which was also something that I didn't want to do in the rain, but at least it wouldn't be a muddy mess. When I got up, it was raining and I had a message from Looseyfur telling me that the outing was cancelled. I decided to go with my parents and the kids to breakfast for the Marine Corp Toys for Tots ride that my dad was going in and then see if the rain slacked off enough to hit the farmer's market. The kids rode with my mom and I took my van since I was going elsewhere after. I backed out of the drive and the van felt kind of wobbly. It used to do that when we had mud by the drive and it would get all over my tires. I pulled across the street, thinking it would shake loose and I could be on my merry way. Once I got in the parking lot, I stopped to check because it hadn't shaken loose.

When I checked, I found that the rear passenger tire was completely flat :( I parked the van called my mom and we all went to breakfast. I called RF and told him about it and asked him to deal with it on his break. That meant no farmer's market, sadly :( Rf came home and got the van to the tire store (which I actually forgot about being there until after I had already called him to deal with it), where they patched it, because I had driven over a nail, and it was fine.

As it turned out, I'm glad the berry picking was cancelled because I either would have missed it or I would have found out about the tire part way out there.

It has been rescheduled for next weekend, when the kids will be gone. I may still go, but I'll need to find a ride. No point in me driving out by myself, when a bunch of people from the playgroup are going.

Wildest Radar picture ever

I'm sure it is probably some instrument malfunction but it looks cool none the less :)

Snow Way

I hate snow. I dislike winter, overall, although I look better in long sleeves than short so I like that fact. It is cold and everyone craps their brain as soon as the first clouds sheds the first flake. I can forgive people, to a very small degree, that have never driven in this garbage. People that have lived here their whole lives have no excuse. If you can't drive in it, get on the bus and out of my way.

Perversely, I was just watching the weather and they are saying chance of up to an inch of snow tomorrow night and then a "significant" chance on Saturday (although weather channel says 20% chance tomorrow and only 30% on Saturday so we'll see). I'm a little excited about it. I don't want anything like we had in Feb.
where everyone had to work crazy hours and we ended up with several house guests because we live in town and no one could make it home. An inch or two, enough to go sledding without messing up the roads (tis the season to be travelling, after all), would be ok. The kids really like the snow so I don't mind it as much because of that.