Friday: school buses

Today we had to do some errands, and we ended up going near the schools just as they were getting out. There were buses everywhere. We ended up behind one. It stopped, two kids got off, crossed the road, and went into their respective houses. We go again. Ten feet later the bus stops, one kid gets off, crosses the road, and goes into his house.

Seriously? I guess I don't understand this new fad with stopping in front of every single house. I can understand wanting to have a bus stop in sight of your house or maybe for elementary schools, but I really feel that older kids should all be able to get out and walk the ten extra feet. Bus stops were good places for meeting kids in the neighborhood (SARAH VANDERBILT WERE ARE YOU NOW?!?) and getting a little exercise and I'm a little sad that they're disappearing.

Thursday: snowplow

Today was Ben's day to work from home. It works well...I usually go in a little earlier. Today I got up and looked out the window. The snow didn't look too bad on the driveway, but I thought I'd shovel the end to keep it clean. Just as I start shoveling the snowplow went by on the other side of the road. I thought "oh great, it'll probably come around on this side right after I finish shoveling and bring that terrible heavy stuff with it." Soon afterwards I get to the end of the driveway and realize that the snow had drifted. It was up to my knees. Sigh. I start shoveling, rather sure that I've already shoveled this snow twice yesterday. I reach the end of the driveway and realize that there is still two feet of this knee-high snow. Then I hear a rumble in the background. The snowplow is coming back! I was so happy. It didn't even put a lot of bad snow in front of the driveway and took away most of the snow that was still left away.

Three cheers for the snowplow driver!

Tuesday: power

Tonight our power went out. It's the first time since we've been here that it has gone out while we were at home. It was almost fun. :) Then we went out to Bible Study and the roads were really bad. We probably should have canceled. One of these days we'll figure out when to cancel and when not to. The roads going home were still bad, but not quite so bad. At least we didn't have to dodge any pickup trucks perpendicular to the highway or people deciding to walk right in front of us like we did on the way there. :s

Monday: happy car

Today our car got to go to the doctor. It got some new belts, the fuel line fixed, and the air conditioning compressor disconnected. It turns out that the annoying scary squeal was from the ac compressor. So right now we don't have the squeal but we also don't have a/c either.

Sunday: superbowl

We had a superbowl party at our house tonight. It was a lot of fun. I was cheering for the Saints (for no real reason) so was excited that they won. I feel like I won something important even though I didn't really decide who I was rooting for until about five minutes into the game. Hugh got really angry the exact same time the Saints scored a TD, and the look on his face was priceless. We also had some delicious cheese fondue and a bunch of other good food. Oh, and the Doritos commercials were by far the best. We were all laughing at most of them.

Saturday: !

By popular demand, here is Amalle in her new tabard:

and no, no calluses. I've been about 10 quests away for quite a while now, so I finally finished them off this morning.

In other news, the day went much better than I was expecting. Ben and I also went grocery shopping together which was oddly fun. And we got donuts!! Flurry is now napping in my lap which makes me happy.

Saturday morning: too much WoW?

For all of you non-WoW players, it means that I have done a majority of the quests in the game.