I should totally sleep, but at 6am it is almost a lost cause?
The snow arrived, I still haven't seen all that much, but we're under a Level 2 Snow Emergency. I think they're just trying to keep us scared because when I was younger it seemed that it took a heck of a lot more snow to get a "Level 2" than we currently have outside right now. Naturally school dismissed early, James got to leave work early and I unwisely ventured to the store amid the pre-Super Bowl and preparing for the white death shopping frenzy. I don't buy into the hype (of the white death or the Super Bowl), but just wanted to make pizza for dinner tonight. It wasn't too bad in my opinion because I've been to the Tensuke Market on their big sale day, and I would greatly advise against being there if you're claustrophobic.
I had an odd afternoon. I put Tristan down for his nap when I got home from the store and my grandparents' offered to get Mina and drop her off because they worried that the snow would be worse and that it would be difficult for me to handle both kids. I sat on the sofa and waited, thought I might fall asleep and had left my cell phone upstairs. The time passed, and I thought they would be by to bring Mina home really soon. I heard my phone ringing and ran upstairs to grab it. James and my grandparents were both calling at the same time. I thought something bad must be going on, but James called the house phone as I was checking my voice mail. He said that he got off work early and he wanted me to move his car out of the garage so he could work on my car out there. Okay. My voice mail says that my grandparents are outside and they didn't see me here. I was confused because I'd only been sitting on the sofa. I thought that they had come to the door and didn't get a response, I didn't think I had fallen asleep or that I could sleep through our very loud doorbell. I call grandma's cell phone and tell them that I'm at home, so they bring Mina by. I realize that they were looking for my car out front, which James had driven to work because he wanted to check out the recent adjustments. So I was not going crazy. For a moment it felt like Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and the whole London Below thing.
So I moved James' car out of the garage and he brought my car in and said that he'd be working on it for the next few hours. Okay, whatever, he has been messing with the cars a lot recently. Right before I start putting together the pizzas he tells me that he wants me to move my car out of the garage so he can put his car back. I get a bit annoyed because I don't want to go outside, but I do go. I get in my car and he has it all cleaned out, including the nasty cereal that Tristan tossed around the back seat. I turn the car on and the radio is quiet, I'm used to something on the FM starting up in its staticy goodness because I haven't had a CD-player that worked in about a year. This song came on, a Rammstein song that I know they don't play on the radio around here (it's too blatantly naughty). I turn it up, initially thinking "wow, the sound quality is great and they're playing this on some rock station." I reach down and it's a new CD-player with the most recent Rammmstein CD in it. I have a sneaky husband.
We had the pizza for dinner. James and I watched a lot of movies tonight because it's snowy, and I was originally supposed to go out with friends, but the roads in Columbus are apparently much worse than here (we really didn't get much snow, so I thought they were over-reacting). Our electricity flickered once, which freaked out Mina who jsut starts screaming (not cool) and woke up Tristan (double not cool) and she started wandering (not cool again because she can't see the stairs when she wanders in the dark), but she didn't fall down and the power came back up and Tristan legitimately needed a diaper change, so it was all good.
So movies... We started out with Season 2 Disc 1 of Californication--hey, I at least know what to expect here, but it was less softcore porn that The Tudors. Then we watched "Nazi Surf Punks Must Die!" Horrible movie, but it's a Troma thing, so I felt like watching it. The ending was pretty satisfying because the only cool characters were the elderly ladies. After James went to sleep I watched "Fried Green Tomatoes" and that is a really good movie, I had previous seen it in bits and pieces, but watching it all together was great. It made up for my Troma film transgressions.
So I think I'll try to get a couple hours of sleep...I'm going to blame this on the fact that I was fueled by caffeine today, seriously too much.