By now every Bend blogger and their brother has written about the 8" snow the city received yesterday.

Boo-hoo, is all I have to say to that.

L.A. Pine got 14 inches instead - and yepp, it's snowing again *right now*. Hell is freezing over as we speak.

Half an hour to dig out your car? Bleh. Try THREE fucking hours to clear the driveway instead. With the help of a bad-ass snowblower (which turned out to be the best $275 I've spent all year - and All Hail to Craigslist, where I found the brandnew unit last Spring at rock-bottom price ...).

It seemed only fitting then to take a personal snow day, attending only to urgent business. Unfortunately that turned into a drive into Bend in the afternoon to pick up hubby's truck from the mechanic. The only way I could be coaxed into leaving the house though was the swooning promise of a trip to the movies to see Walk the Line at the same time. Which was worth it, I must say. Great movie. And Joaquin Phoenix has just climbed to the near top of my personal "Sexiest Movie Star" list - despite the harelip and the annoying brown contacts they made him wear...

So it was then a dark, cold, and stormy night when I finally returned home. And let me tell you, the 25-mile drive from Bend to La Pine was no picnic. The road was like glass. So smooth and icy, I'd broken out my ice-skates and glided on home instead, had I had any skates at all. The studded tires on the Beemer were utterly worthless, even at the steady 35 mph at which traffic was moving. I had zero grip on the road and at the slightest turn of the wheel, I was priviledged to experience the wonderous sensation of feeling like I had just embarked on a hover craft ride and I was in actuality gliding on a cushion of air rather than on a solid road. Add to that some asshole who hung about 5 feet from my bumper the entire way - and let's just say, I was a little unnerved.

As you may have gathered by now though - I did make it home after all. And that's exactly where I'm staying. I know it's First Friday tonight - but no way in Hell am going back to hovercraft mode for a while ...