Hey, congrats, Grrlfriend! You're now a Field Agent! Your field appears to be covered with snow, however.

Hey, I am and yes it is. We got another inch or so today. This strom stayed more tot he east so AM commute not too bad. But I am so ready for green grass and leaves on trees and warm sunshine..........

snooooow.... is fun.

mind you I live in a place that is lucky to get a frost let alone snow

And where I live, we get snow about twice a year, and it usually melts within a day. Instead, we get rain . . . lots and lots of rain . . . and very very very short days. I'm ready for more sunlight myself.

But there's plenty of snow in the mountains, barely an hour's drive away. I quite like it like that -- I can go and visit the snow any time, but I don't have to live with it. Kind of like in-laws.

And more snow is predicted for Friday. It could be worse though. Tooele got about an inch. North Ogden got almost 2 feet!

So far I haven't had to shovel snow for the last couple of storms.

Snow! Me like!
I prefer snow over rain!
I sure hope the first week of February will bring snow or frost instead of rain....
And when I think of it, most preferably also the second weekend of February...

We got like a . . . flake of snow. Didn't even last long enough to take a picture of it. Bummer!

The air conditioner is back on, so THAT didn't last long. Oh well...

I prefer rain to snow, as long as I don't have to drive in it at night. Don't like driving in snow and ice, especially at night either. Had a real scare last winter when my car skidded off the road going around a corner (at 10 mph. mind you) and ended up heading toward a brick building. I missed the building, but then was heading toward a fire hydrant instead. Missed that too, and came to a stop in the rear parking lot of the building gasping for breath and with my heart pounding! Took me about 10 min before I could convince myself to finish driving the rest of the way home.

Oooo...I hate that, not being able to stop on ice! That's how I had my first wreck. Thankfully, it wasn't serious, but I still crunched up my car and had to pay my deductible to get it fixed at the body shop. So no, I'm NOT a fan of snow either (unless I'm playing in it instead of risking my life on the roads).

My Subaru handles great in the snow. Its the other jerks on the road who think 4 wheel drive = invincible that gives me grief.

Supposed to snow lightly early tomorrow morning, which means we will probably get dumped on. I just keep telling myself that its my drinking water this summer.

But I'm really tired of being cold all the time...........*shivers* wraps in a sweater.

Come down here... we've only had three days of cold. Then it's back to summer days. It shouldn't get really cold 'til Feb... Average temp in the winter is 60 degrees F.

I don't miss winter driving, though. Nope, no siree!

It was 11 degrees F this morning. Day time high made it all the way to 31.

And I would love a trip to Florida.........planning on hitting Key West sometime in the next five years.

Ooo... I love The Keys. Haven't been there in YEARS! Actually, we haven't played tourist in quite some time. This is the perfect time, too.

We would just pack up the car, the kid and a cooler full of sandwiches and take off in any direction. Those were the really fun trips. Last one we ended up in St. Augustine. Beautifil historic city.

Hmmm... that's an idea!

Yeah, do it! You need a little fun and there is nothing like an inpromptu trip to rejuvenate the spirit.

My partner's family did that all the time while she was growing up -- it became known as a 'bench', from when her little brother couldn't quite pronounce the word 'adventure'.

So now we go on 'benches' whenever we can!

Jade and I gave each other nicknames when we went on our first desert campout together.

He's Adventure Man because he's always ready to go on one.

I'm Fearless Woman because I'm right beside him, even when we are crawling along a Jeep trail hundreds of feet above the canyon floor and our truck tires are inches (3) from the edge and a certain plummet to our deaths if the trail collapses..........oh, did I mention, I hate heights?

Something else I have in common with MacGyver.

There have been versions of this around for years, but I came up with this expanded one a while back:

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“Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline......”

If you are a megalomaniac, press 1. None of the other numbers are good enough.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you are catatonic, just stare at the keypad.

If you are a manic-depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press; no-one will answer. But press something! Anything! Now! Now do it again, harder!

If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 3 over and over and over and over and over again. Be sure to press it exactly the same way every single time.

If you have attention-deficit disorder, hang up, because we won’t be able to answer the phone before you lose interest and forget why you called us and just put the phone down and walk away without even hanging up properly . . . Hello? Hello?

If you have multiple personalities, press 4, 5, and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. But stay on the line. We’re tracing your call.

If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.

If you have amnesia, press 8 and we’ll tell you your name, address, telephone number, and your mother’s maiden name.

If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. All operators are too busy and too important to talk to you. Besides, what makes you think we care about your stupid little problems?

If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, s-l-o-w-l-y and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y press 0 0 0.

If you have a learning disability, press the star key and wait to speak to someone. That’s the key with the icon that looks like a star. Yes, like a star. Or a snowflake. It has little points on it. Now wait till someone answers. Yes, hold onto the phone and don’t hang up. No, don’t put the phone down. Wait. That means keep holding the phone next to your ear.

If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key until a representative comes on the line.

If you are menopausal, hang up, turn on the fan, lie down and cry. You won’t be crazy forever.

If you are blonde, don’t press any buttons, you’ll just mess it up.

If you are a pyromaniac, hold a blowtorch to the phone until it melts. Isn’t that pretty?

If you are violently psychotic, take the handset and beat on the phone until it’s smashed into tiny little fragments of mangled plastic and you can see its electronic guts spilling out all over the table and there are little bits falling onto the floor.

Feel better now?

matching up people I know with the numbers.........

Being an Anachronistic, I'll have to build a fire and send smoke-signals.



Metric Conversions (for the rest of us)

1 millionth of a mouthwash - 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement - 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God - 1 billigram

1,000 aches - 1 megahurtz

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mph - 1 knot-furlong

Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower

1,000 grams of wet socks - 1 literhosen

10 rations - 1 decoration

The time between making a big mistake and realizing that you've just made a big mistake...

1 ohno-second

That would be what we call the "oh crap" (or variation thereof) moment

I probably should have put this in it's entirety so it makes sense to everyone.

Computers work at a speed measured as Nano-seconds (1 billionth of a second)

The nanosecond speed of a computers processor is directly related to that minuscule fraction of time know as the ohno-second, in which you realize that you've just hit the wrong key and deleted all your work.

Is that one of those "location" jokes Rocky?

Very good!

And still known in the States as the "oh crap" moment.

Murphy's Lesser Known Laws
From: SeeHere Blogspot

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, on a hill, in the fog, and 9 times out of 10, they'll have Texas plates on their car.... (Since hubby is from Texas, I felt I could post this one...)

7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.

8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Mrs. Murphy's correlary: If it can go wrong, it will.........when Mr. Murphy is out of town.

The "oh crap" moment qualifier: The more important the file, the higher the proabability that you will delete it before saving it.

*snickers loudly*

If all the economists on Earth were lined up end to end . . . they'd point in different directions.