Winter Winter Go AWAY!!!

Good morning!

As I type this, I can see the wonderful warm sunshine but if I were to head outside...whoa baby...bone chill'n cold! Over the past month of January, we've experienced 2 decent snow storms. Not quite as "over the top" as the December 18th storm but still, noteworthy.

What is so amazing in this is that starting January 4th, I began a new journey in my job working 10 hour days. Most folks working 10 hour days take the same "day off" (and it's usually a Friday each week) but my boss requested that I take off the 1st Friday and the 2nd Monday of our payroll's "pay period". What could I say? He was permitting me to work the 10 hour days primarily because the big boss offered this work schedule to our inspectors and in my bosses eyes, being I support the inspector's, should be allowed to work 1o hour days if I ask, well...within certain parameters. So every other week end I have 4 days off (sweet huh?). However, the first "Friday" I was off, we got hammered with snow and the boss called a snow day. Yep, had I been working my old schedule, I'd have gotten the day off anyways. Then the next Friday I got off, we were expecting an ice storm and was even released early that Thursday (and YES! they did work that Friday!). Fortunately, where I live, it hovered around 36-39 degrees and we had rain.

Now this past weekend. Some of us where I worked quietly monitored the weather reports but we were blessed that we didn't get hit like all those folks did in Oklahoma. Wow, the photo's from there were amazing. Really did remind me of the weekend that Ron and I got married back in 2003...really REALLY bad ice. The weather folks said we'd get 4-6, mebbe 8 inches and yep, that's what we ended up with by Saturday night. Down in southern WV, where my boss lives, they picked up a cool foot of snow. Apparently it was bad enough in Mingo County (sw-WV) that school was cancelled for today but most other counties only did the 2 hour delays.

So now I'm up with the title of todays blog...I doubt I'm alone in my sentiments either...lol

I just double dog dare that wretch little groundhog to see his shadow tomorrow...