SNOWMAGEDDON!
Yes, I went to the grocery store yesterday — I’d lose my DC-Metro cred if I didn’t — and yes, it was a madhouse. It took twenty minutes just to find a parking spot, and inside the carts were almost gridlocked. One of the staff mentioned that it was “worse than Christmas” and that it had been like that since 7:00 AM.
There was plenty of milk, bread, and T.P. — the holy trinity of pre-snow panic — but there were some other items that were completely cleaned out:
- bulk garlic
- bulk red potatoes
- packaged white mushrooms
- packaged cremini mushrooms
- any andouille sausage costing less than $16.99/ lb
Seriously, what is up with the garlic?!
What a mean Mommy I am! I made Hambet study all his spelling words as if he would have his spelling test on Friday before I told him that school would be out.
We’ve been having wet fluffy snow for around six hours now. The real monster snow is supposed to be starting shortly….
Hambet and I started The Horse and His Boy this afternoon. Although I’d read the Narnia books when I was a child, for some reason only a couple of them “stuck” in my mind, so now I’m getting to enjoy with Hambet the one-more-chapter-pleeease! thrill of reading them for the first time.
Is anybody else watching the new version of Emma that’s been on Masterpiece Theater? The conclusion is this Sunday. This version’s Emma is growing on me — I like her liveliness — and Harriet is very good, but I am sorry to say that I am disappointed by Miss Bates.
I’ve been invited to be part of a new group blog! Feminine Geniuses launches this weekend. So far, I’ve only contributed some coding and a little collection of feminine-genius readings, but I hope to have a real post up soon.