The Aftermath

Yesterday was not a total waste. I did get quite a bit of painting done in my bedroom. Although now I have a serious paint fume headache. Maybe not a good idea to paint when you have to leave the windows closed. And it's becoming clear to me that I'm going to run out of paint. The entire room is going to need a second coat. What a b*tch that is!

Just look how long that wall is. It really sucks doing this by yourself. That's why it'll probably be several more days before it's completed. Plus I have to figure out a way to get all the really heavy furniture away from the walls. The color is nice. It's actually a raspberry, though it looks red in the pics. Going to be a dramatic difference in that room after 10 years of the same. It's definitely time for a change.

I took a break in the evening to celebrate my birthday. Yes this is a pitiful attempt at a birthday cake. It's one of those frozen diet jobs but it was still tasty. I'm sure you can all figure out what I wished for. :)

So here's the storm aftermath. I actually had to push snow away from the door to get it to open. And I have a huge front porch with a roof over it! So you can see how bad the wind was blowing to have snow this far up.

Remember the bumps that were decorative lights in yesterday's pic. Completely buried today. As you can see, I made no attempt to shovel yesterday. I'm sure I'll regret that when I'm out there all day trying to dig out. Yep... I took another vacation day from work. Hey, even the news guy said not to drive unless it was ABSOLUTELY necessary. He said it was dangerous. So I heeded his warnings and stayed home again today. Hee hee.

Poor Griffey. He's not a happy camper. That's my fountain back there covered for the winter. There's also decorative lights around that thing that stick up at least 8 inches. But where are they? So for a little dog to go outside in that mess to "do his business" was not working so well. He was completely buried up to his belly which means his little .... well you get the idea. Last night it sleeted which created a nice crunchy top to all the snow this morning. So today he was able to walk gingerly across it and stay on top. Every now and then he'd break through and get stuck and have to pull himself out. Poor little guy. I wasn't cruel enough to photograph it for your amusement. But it was kind of funny....
So I'll be spending my valentine's day digging out and doing some more painting. That's the life of a single independent woman, I guess.