and today there is even less LOL

and with any luck there will be none tomorrow, but it is a bit typical as we planned an entire week of snow related activities and the snow is going LOL i think it's called sod's law LOL

and two parcels of stash arrived :) i had forgotten what i had ordered i had waited so long for them to arrive :)

hoping i'm not speaking too soon.................

but the snow is melting like billy oh here, when i took photo's yesterday it was just a blanket of white in the garden, but today there are patches of green showing through, let's hope it continues and it's all gone by tomorrow LOL

had a really lovely birthday meal at the black door last night , i had a mojito cocktail to start with then i had black pudding with a poached egg on top to start while dad had a prawn cocktail, wine was a chilean merlot, main courses were rump steak and chips for dad and venison steak with pasta, walnuts and bacon for me, dessert wine was a glass of elysium black muscat, puddings were bread and butter pudding for dad and warm chocolate and coffee tart with butternut squash pannecotta for me followed by a double espresso and a whole pot of their delicious chocolate coffee beans.

have finally got round to installing my new printer and uninstalling the old one, it was really easy to install and the piccies it prints are very nice quality too :)

bad timing

today was supposed to be my birthday crop and come hell or high snow i was getting there, what i didn't bank on was waking up this morning with the most terrible migraine :( got myself up to take my medication only to be sick in the bathroom, so had to wait a bit until i knew my stomach was settled enough to take the tablet, by which time the head was agony and the aura i could see in my right eye had become a complete circle :( so i knew there was no way i was going to get to the crop so i texted h and s and left a message on uks to let peeps know, took the tablet and headed back to bed, i woke up 5 hours later in a lot less pain but feeling very woolly headed :( lousy timing huh? plus ot means i have an entire birthday cake to get through, now do i be generous and take it into work or do we start eating it now LOL

went outside to take some photo's of the snow as i feel it is quite important to document this freak weather we seem to be having, i wonder if the littlies at work will remember this bad winter when they are all grown up? any way we have 9 inches of snow in the garden, more in some places but i can't get the ruler all the way to the ground as i hit solid ice in some parts, there are some lovely icicles hanging from the neighbours roofs, we don't have any as the snow keeps sliding off our roof.

have been on the phone to the black door restaurant to make sure they are open this evening which they are then i rang the biscuit factory gallery to check if they were open, it's a good job i did as they close at 6pm now instead of 7:30pm like they used too, so change of plan, no looking around the gallery first, so our taxi is booked for 7pm :)

off to edit the photo's i have just taken now then i'm going upstairs to do a bit of scrapping :)

sure darn pretty

this photo has been on all the newspapers and news programmes recently and was taken by a nasa satellite way up in space, the country looks amazing and reminds me of the view of earth from space in the film the day after tomorrow, it looks beautiful but it's bloody awful to be down here in it LOL

pretty pissed off

that i am risking my life to get to work to have either hardly any kids in or kids whose parents are at home :0 and i do mean risking my life, i was slipping and sliding all over the place and ended up sliding out of the street sideways when i left for work this morning, it's a bloody good job there was nothing coming cos i couldn't stop :( if it freezes tonight i'm stuffed and it will have to be a taxi job or the bus to get me there :(

happy birthday to me :)

today i turned 41, and for the first time ever i have been to work on my birthday :( but it was actually really nice, apart from the commute which was scary and dangerous because of the snow :(

the kids started singing happy birthday to me as soon as i walked through the door and i have had so many birthday cuddles off them through the day which is so sweet, i got some fabulous presents off the girls from work, i had asked for a momiji doll but got two :) and a mug and some stickers :) thank you ladies i love them

when i got home from work (in a much easier journey than last night !!!!!) i had presents off dad, a new tote bag, a dvd and lots of new promarkers, a lovely present of heather (thank you hun ) and some lovely cards, we didn't have any post today so i think i might get a few more cards when the postie arrives. i've ordered a takeaway and i have birthday cake to have :)

need to take a few photo's to mark the occaision too :)

normality resumes

or as near as we will ever get to normal in our household LOL the tree is down and all the decorations except for one solitary bauble which i must remember to take upstairs tonight , i actually took all the decs down last night and we sat with just the tree lights on and the window lights and it made me realise how nice it actually looked, and i think for xmas 2010 i will just be putting the tree and window lights up as well as the village and icy ivor but that is probably it, i mean i love all the xmas tat up but it takes at least a day and a half to put up and the same to take it all back down again.

the snow is still here but has started to melt quite bit and we have only had the odd flurry of the stuff today, the snowman is no more, the birds came yesterday and ate the peanuts which were his eyes and nose and when i got up today his head had fallen off AAHH poor snowman LOL here are some more photo's i took yesterday