Snow Day?

Today is the fourth day in the past two weeks that the DM area schools have had a late start/early dismissal/cancellation due to the weather. Last week it was super icy, today it's blizzardly. And so windy I swear our holiday wreaths on the window are going to come crashing right through the panes with the very next gust. (No, there's no need to chastise me on still having our Christmas wreaths up outside! I REALIZE they should come down, but in case you didn't pay attention to my first sentence, it's been CRAZY COLD her the last two weeks and they've been packed with snow and ice. Plus, that's outside stuff. And LC is in charge of outside stuff.) I feel a bit like Winnie the Pooh did when he sang Blustery Day, provided it was 10 degrees outside when was singing and not just a beautiful spring day with a bit of a breeze. Oh, what I would do right now for a beautiful spring day.

And here's my other thing about snow days- I DON'T GET THEM. Ah, yes, yet another "advantage" to working from home. My office closes when the local school district closes. They were closed two days the past two months for bad weather. Our local school system here has been closed 6 days so far this year due to weather. But here at Casa de Cunningham, I keep plugging away. It's never too bad outside for me to not be able to make it work from my bedroom upstairs to my office downstairs. Great. That's just great. Not that I don't love my job, but ever since those of us north of the Mason Dixon line were five it's been ingrained in our heads that on really crappy days you shouldn't be asked to produce anything at all, minus a cup of hot chocolate. So I can't really be expected to retrain my brain now after 25 years of alternative thinking to be productive when the outside world shuts down, can I? And please don't give me that "but you get to wear your slippers to work" line- I wear my slippers at my office in Denver, too. Ask my coworkers- I keep a pair under my desk. I know I should just be happy to have a job. And our health. And our safety that we've made it through all these crazy winter storms. But is it too much to ask for a snow day (or two!) also? Yes, I think that would be nice.