Blizards are Great for Creativity

            I had a flat tire yesterday, which turned out to work in my favor.  When you've had as many flat tires as I have, they stop bothering you and actually become kinda funny.  So last week, the tire went flat.  I limped over to the gas station and pumped more air into it thinking it was nothing more than a bead leak.  Well it wasn't.  I went out to my car yesterday to go to work and it was flat.  Luckily I was leaving early and called one of my coworkers just in time to catch him and hitch a ride (Rhett, you're a life saver!). 
   

Well, today I tried to change the tire before work but it wouldn't come off (my rims have a nasty habit of rusting onto the axel.  But hey, I didn't lovingly name my car POS for nothing!).  Then my little brother came home early (he lives with me and works at a school).  I asked him if he could get a hold of our other brother to bring down the sledge hammer then I started to get ready for work.  Well the little brother can be a doll sometimes and he went out there and found a way to get it off without a hammer.  Sadly, all I have to replace it with is a doughnut.  A well used doughnut (I love that doughnut!). 

He suggested that I still hitch a ride with my coworker because there's a huge blizzard rolling into town and the school he works at was shut down for the day.  Then I found out that not only were schools locking down, but so where many hospitals, churches and businesses.  This is supposed to be the worst storm that Utah has seen in over 10 years (If you've ever been to Utah and experienced its drivers, you would understand how odd it is to shut anything down because of weather.  We'll go racing on bald tires in two feet of snow just for fun.  And nothing is more exciting than getting up to at least 50 in the snow and giving the wheel a good, hard yank to get the car into one of those uncontrollable spins.  All you can do is sit back and wait for the ride to be over...yeah, I've done some really stupid crap...fun though). 

Anyways, so Rhett picks me up for work again and we get all our students in the building and set up to go (we work for a company that specializes in outsourced telemarketing business).  We barely are ready to start the day and we find out that the site is going to be shut down on account of the coming storm.  Which is a huge surprise to folks who've worked there as long as I have.  In 12 years, they've NEVER shut down the site due to weather.  Utahan’s are crazy enough to drive in anything, so why shut it down?

    

It was really exciting to get off work early.  I was almost bouncing in my seat all the way home, though the snow had already started to fall and we got about  6 inches in only 30 minutes (our snow here is really heavy and has a tendency to weigh down tree limbs, which then break power lines.  As you can hopefully guess, that's dangerous). 

    

I got home at about 8pm and started writing (which is actually the point of this whole story, by the way). 

    

I'm excited to say that since I got to come home and spend 4 hours writing and drinking hot chocolate (and a flute of White Merlot) that I've finished Part I of my story with 21 chapters, 52,900 words and 97 single spaced pages!!!!

    

Yay me!  Crowd goes wild!  Clapping, cheering, pats on the back and drinks all around!

     ...Okay, so maybe my cats are excited.  And NOT because I just drugged them with catnip.
    

I'm going to go watch TV for a bit and knit something. 

    
(thank you blizzard