five totally random facts

1. This is the new Heinz ketchup package if you haven't seen it. How cool is that? You can squeeze it out OR dip from it. It's the simple things like this.. love it. 

2. We are getting more snow in NWA as I type, and have been all day long. Suprise suprise, I know. I'm about ready to clicked into my skis. This is getting rediculous. 

(Not sure who this kid is, but they made me laugh)

3. I would do almost anything to be in Destin, FL right now. I am in desperate need of my dresses, swimsuits, and flipflops. 

4. Today I was in a snow strom hurry to get out of the house and off to work. (Remember the driveway issues I have.. I was stressed.) In such a hurry that I walked out of the house and jumped in my car and didn't notice until it was too late that I was going to work with my neon pink, cuticle covered, smeared finger nails, that Libby did for me Sunday afternoon. Remember the pedicure this summer? She's 4. It made for a good morning laugh. 

Today I am thankful that my job requires that I wear latex gloves. 

5. The Bachelor. I have nothing to say about this. I am beginning to get annoyed. I don't want to believe what I hear, the "rumors" of what happens in the end... but its not looking too promising of them being wrong. 

God is wonderful! Goodnight friends!

Slush

So my driveway is about a football field and a half long.. lined with pine trees, and covered in gravel. In result, it is the last driveway in this town to ever melt. Last night I had a bit of trouble getting out of the driveway to go to Lauren's Bachelor watching party, I made it finally, but I was late thanks to the driveway. Today was a different story.

At about 2:15ish I got into my car to go pick up kids from school. I have to pick them up at 2:50. But I had to go get the after school snacks and gas in my car. So 2:15ish it was! The thought of the driveway's state wasn't a concern because it was later in the day, I thought SURELY some of it would have melted compared to last nights incident.

Melted? Oh yeah, into a totally muddy, puddled, slushy, nastiness, snow mess.

In my car I went. I would pick up just enough speed and HELLO.. a dog (we have 2 big dogs- a black lab and an English Mastiff) would jump out in front of me, causing me to have to stop. Stopping in snow makes you literally have to stop and back up, if you didn't know. So I would reverse. Starting all over again. Then, I would get to a point where my back tires would just spin, so I stopped. Backed up, got out, and got a hand full of hay (it was the first thing I thought of) to put in the slick spot. (Yes, we have hay, we have big animals that eat it.) So then I would try again. Going... going... pasted the spot with hay.. slide a little.. going.. HELLO dumb dog. Back up. Start again. Another slick spot. More hay. Start again. Slide. Back up. Go. Dog. Stop. Back up. Slide. Tears. Dogs barking. Frustration increasing. Go. Tires spinning. Mud and snow tossing. Tears.

I think you get the picture. Times about 28 times.

To make a long story short, throughout this process.. I used up all the hay. Used a bucket of ashes, because that really does, true story, help in the snow and getting unstuck. At one point I picked up a stick in attempt to get the snow away from something, and instead the lab thought I was playing fetch with him and took it out of my hand and ran away with it. Nearly slid into a tree (Thank you Lord for stopping that). I was totally covered in hay, ashes, and mud-slush from head to toe. Screamed at the top of my lungs and cried tears of frustration. And I am furthest from an emotional person. I had had it!

At 3:06 I got out of my driveway by a huge miracle. Might I add, I drive a 4Runner. Its not like I was in a little car fighting this battle. But the thing with the Runner is this, it has some sliding protector thing, that locks up your tires or something.. I really don't even know.. I could be totally off. BUT I do know that it makes this beeping noise, that probably had a lot to do with the frustration level. I also know that when it gets to this state of operation that it doesn't move and there is nothing you can do about it. Frustrating.

I hope you are laughing. I am now. Several hours later. I don't think I have ever been so frustrated in my whole life. For almost a whole hour. I'll post pictures tomorrow just to paint the picture better for you.

In other words, my car is parked at the church that is to the right of our house. The driveway wasn't an option tonight.

Hope your Tuesday wasn't frustrating!

beginning to get restless

Above was my entertainment for the day. Lazy? I would think so too if my car didn't have about a foot of snow on it and was frozen shut. Awesome, I know. So needless to say the most productive part of my day was taking a shower and finding a clean pair of new sweatpants to put on.

Last night was an exciting night.. about 6:30 my parents decided to get us all out of the house and go grab a pizza. I felt like this was such a treat, having been stuck inside all day. And it was a special outing, it isn't often we all get to go out to dinner together with everyone's different schedules, so it was lovely. The roads were covered in ice and snow and my Dad's huge truck slid quite a bit, but it was so nice to have a change of scenery.

This snow storm has been very relaxing. It is nice to not hear trees snapping and falling every five minutes. I'm very thankful the firemen didn't have to come rescue our home like last year. Very fortunate to have the power on the whole time. And it is very peaceful feeling to look out the windows to tons and tons of snow. Even the ugliest things are always so pretty covered in snow; at least I think so!

I do believe the chance for more snow is unlikely, and that is pretty much fine with me. I'm beginning to get pretty restless around here.

Hallie Mae's day was just as hard as mine..

I hope you've had a blessed weekend yourself!

Ready or not..

Well.. it's started. The roads are slick. The public schools and the University have already called off class for tomorrow. Freezing rain and snow are taking over the atmosphere outside.

Here we go. Ready or not, these next few days might be very interesting. So here is your heads up if you don't hear from me; the ice and snow won and the chances of lost power are high at fault.

If you aren't in NWA, count your blessing. I envy you.

Stay warm!!

Totally Random..

Don't worry. I'm still here. I've been in quite the blogging rut lately. Here is what has been going on..

1. I subbed Monday morning in a 2nd grade classroom. Oh. My. Gosh. Having done my internship and having my whole college degree wrapped around secondary aged kids, I have quickly forgotten how oh so cute little kids are. Bless their hearts. But man do they make you tired! There was one little boy I could have taken home with me in about.. oh.. 2 seconds!! He was totally precious and made me laugh all day long. He was a spitting image of Buckwheat's best friend (I can't think of his name and it is driving me crazy).. Anyway.. this little man was so cute. Every time he talked he had a big smile on his face and would tilt his head just like the little guy on Little Rascals. During Science we were talking about matter and examples of it. He raised his head with a big grin on his face and says in a slurring voice, "Excuse me Ms. Posey, let me get this right.. so are you telling me that the United States of America is made up of matter? And what about France?.. and China?".. Hilarious. I didn't even bring up countries.. I was talking about apple juice and their desks and steam off of boiling water... Not real sure where he connected the US and France and China.. but whatever, we went with it.

Buckwheat is on the left.. and the little boy in 2nd grade looks just like the one on the right.

2. Monday night at 9:45.. I thought that was setting the record with my bed time, until last night hit.. UM.. this is kind of embarrassing.. my computer and I got in bed with Cinderella at 7:30.. and all I remember seeing is up to the part of Cinderella feeding the little animals outside. For those of you that aren't Disney fans.. that is about 15 mins into the movie. Needless to say I woke up this morning with the DVD menu playing. Oh lovely!!

3. I went to the Doc this AM to find out that I am sick. Allergy sick. For those that know me, this shouldn't surprise you. A good ol shot in the hip and a round of antibiotics and I'll be good to go. According to Dr. A "If you don't have allergies right now.. then you are just weird!" I guess their just terrible right now. He also informed me that there is a 24 hr stomach bug going around.. so if you have been feeling a little under the weather, hopefully I just solved your issue. (I am far from a DR though, so you might want to see a real one)

4. I have not had a carbonated drink in about 2 weeks. Sonic Happy hour is being greatly missed, but I feel so much better.

5. Lets talk about this ice storm that is suppose to hit this weekend. Seriously? The words "Ice Storm" just make my stomach roll over and really makes me want to throw up. Makes me want to pop an anxiety pill (and I don't even have anxiety issues). For those of you reading this from NWA (for those of you not from NWA, don't be jealous).. I know not having power was terrible.. I know trees falling over was terrible. I know your kids being out of school for over a week was terrible.. I know the roads were.. well, terrible. But what about your house catching on fire? Because thats what happened at the Posey household. Attic fire. Flames. Smoke. Alarms going off at 3:30 AM while sound asleep. Stuff totally ruined. Rent house for 7 months. Total reconstruction of our house. Seriously? Thank you electric company for turning our power back on, but not so much for giving us too much power and bring us to flames. To say the least, it literally has almost been a whole year since the last ice storm. Must we need another one at exactly the year mark later?.. whatever.. I don't understand. Needless to say, bring on the weather. Thats fine and all, but please don't take my house away that is just now becoming back to "normal" finally. This was our backyard.. I'll do fire pics on the 29th..

Most random blog post? I do believe so!

I hope your little world is wonderful.

Happy hump day!!