There been an awful lot of nothing here lately, I know. I haven't lost interest in my blogging so much as I've lost focus.
Now don't go feeling picked on, dear (imaginary) readers...I haven't just lost my focus in the blogosphere. I've lost my focus everywhere, with the predictable chaotic results. I have so many projects and tasks that I feel need doing urgently that I end up running myself in circles. It's so much easier to just do nothing, and damn near as productive. *sigh*
Days (weeks? months?) like these, I look at all the stuff in my house, look at the haphazard way I discipline my son, look at the incredible SNAFU that is my finances, and despair. I'm sure that there is some logical "babystep" way out of the mess of my life, but damned if I can see it. And even when I do glimpse it, just the sight of how far I have to go exhausts me. Some people look at a mountain and see a challenge they feel compelled to best...I look at even a steep hill and feel like going back to bed.
It's almost enough to get a girl depressed, if she were prone to that kind of thing. Good thing that's not me, eh.
(The above statement should be considered to be dripping with irony, for those of you who haven't caught on to my particular brand of craziness yet.)
Hopefully the amazing SPRING!!! weather will help me overcome these blahs...I'll work on the focusing thing soon, but I've got some serious ass-sitting to do right now...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Snaux
Snow is what people further north of us get...it is white stuff that falls from the sky, sometimes accumulates on the ground, may make driving a bit of a pain, but is generally accepted as a normal part of winter.
Snaux, on the other hand, is what Kentucky gets. You could, of course, call it "fake snow", but snaux sounds so much less provencial, n'est ce pas?
Snaux isn't so much an actual material, as a state of mind. Snaux is the prediction of white stuff that falls from the sky and and the threat that it may accumulate on the ground. While it does little or nothing to the roads themselves, it works some strange magic to convince otherwise (relatively) rational people that they will DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH if they dare venture behind the wheel. Snaux makes roads impassable, if only in peoples' minds...shuts down entire school systems and causes people to empty grocery store shelves so that they don't have to eat their own dead when they are trapped in their houses for the next...24 hours.
As I speak, we are in a Snaux Emergency. All schools let out early (despite that fact that what was falling from the sky was, in actually, rain). Everything is cancelled for tomorrow*, and the newspeople were actively encouraging people to FREAK OUT. Scary numbers like "up to 10 inches" are being bandied about, along with "worst winter storm in years". You would think the world was ended.
Except, of course, that we have yet to see any actual SNOW. Rain, yes. Freezing rain, yes, a bit. Sleet, yeah, currently falling from the sky, but husband still intends to run 10 miles in it so it can't be that bad. But snow? Not so much.
I'd actually LOVE to see 10 inches of snow...we haven' t had a serious snowfall like that in probably a decade, and I'm sure the kidlet thinks that we are lying when we talk about it being possible to build snowmen taller than 3 inches tall. But they can keep this snaux bullshit all to themselves.
*Everything except, of course, the parent clean-up day at school. Which I feel quite certain will be called off if there actually is any real white stuff, but which they aren't willing to call off tonight. Which, I suppose I should admire...except it means I have to get up at 7:00 am on a Saturday morning to get the freaking email to confirm the Snaux Day.
Snaux, on the other hand, is what Kentucky gets. You could, of course, call it "fake snow", but snaux sounds so much less provencial, n'est ce pas?
Snaux isn't so much an actual material, as a state of mind. Snaux is the prediction of white stuff that falls from the sky and and the threat that it may accumulate on the ground. While it does little or nothing to the roads themselves, it works some strange magic to convince otherwise (relatively) rational people that they will DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH if they dare venture behind the wheel. Snaux makes roads impassable, if only in peoples' minds...shuts down entire school systems and causes people to empty grocery store shelves so that they don't have to eat their own dead when they are trapped in their houses for the next...24 hours.
As I speak, we are in a Snaux Emergency. All schools let out early (despite that fact that what was falling from the sky was, in actually, rain). Everything is cancelled for tomorrow*, and the newspeople were actively encouraging people to FREAK OUT. Scary numbers like "up to 10 inches" are being bandied about, along with "worst winter storm in years". You would think the world was ended.
Except, of course, that we have yet to see any actual SNOW. Rain, yes. Freezing rain, yes, a bit. Sleet, yeah, currently falling from the sky, but husband still intends to run 10 miles in it so it can't be that bad. But snow? Not so much.
I'd actually LOVE to see 10 inches of snow...we haven' t had a serious snowfall like that in probably a decade, and I'm sure the kidlet thinks that we are lying when we talk about it being possible to build snowmen taller than 3 inches tall. But they can keep this snaux bullshit all to themselves.
*Everything except, of course, the parent clean-up day at school. Which I feel quite certain will be called off if there actually is any real white stuff, but which they aren't willing to call off tonight. Which, I suppose I should admire...except it means I have to get up at 7:00 am on a Saturday morning to get the freaking email to confirm the Snaux Day.
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