Friday Night Lights

The Southern part of West Virginia is gearing up for 6-12 inches of snowfall.

Or 5-8 depending on which news channel you happen to be listening to.

I can’t tell you how crazy that makes me because I don’t like snow. Or ice. Or cold temperatures.

People are all agog (such a great word!) stock-piling bread, milk, and the 214 other things they will most definitely need before the snow melts tomorrow.

Christmas play practice was cancelled and my nephew’s basketball game was cancelled. That means that I could be at the mall.  Or at Toys-R-Us getting another set of Hulk Hands which happen to be on sale today and tomorrow for $7.49. Instead, I am too chicken to venture off of our hill even though McDaddy would be more than happy to load me and the kids in the heap (ahem, I mean JEEP) and brave the wintry roads and the icy conditions.

Instead, McDaddy is sitting beside me on the hoopty Dell that used to be mine mumbling something about an instrument cluster for his truck. Stevie is playing Monster Truck Urban Assault on the Wii and Alex is running around with a Snowboard Airblade on his back like he is Superman “cough talking” which happens to be his new form of entertainment. Which is also a form of entertainment for us.  Basically, as he is coughing his head off, he tries to form a sentence. 

As you can imagine, this joint is a hoppin’ place on a Friday night.

I’ve had a very productive, fun day.

I started out my day whooping it up in a Limo.

A Hummer Limo.

With seven very excited, anxious children.

We took a twenty minute ride “out the road” and then had lunch at McDonalds. Remember the cookie dough I was peddling. Every kid that sold 25 tubs of cookie dough for the P.T.A. Fundraiser got to take a Hummer Limo Ride. I got to ride along because it was actually me that sold the cookie dough, not my sweet seven year oldthey needed another chaperon to go along. There were two groups and Stevie was among the first group. Obviously, Stevie is the kid you can see.

Tammy, the other chaperone and I giggled as much as the kids did. We rolled the windows down just enough to see out and waved at the passer-bys like we were Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana or whichever one is not the real person.

Fun times.

Oh, and remember this post where I talked about the brightly colored ornaments that I decorate? I spent the better part of the evening personalizing one for every staff member at Stevie’s school. Only, instead of using a sharpie, I used a white Deco pen that had me high after the first four minutes. Between all the Christmas lights and the stench of the pen, I barely had the wherewithall to follow the names on the staff roster.

I decorated 56 of them. I would love to have a job doing this on the side. Or just decorating them for folks who wanted to give a really pretty ornament for a Christmas present.

And here’s a close-up. Aren’t they pretty? I’m so excited. I hope the staff enjoys them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Oh, these pretty bulbs excite me. All the different colors and designs and stuff. It’s enough to make me giddy even with the prospect of 6-12 inches.

Which stinks by the way.

That is all.

Carry on.

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