Waitin' on the snow

Well, here I sit, at home, inside, out of the cold, and just waiting for the storm to hit!!! HERE'S THE SNOW We were VERY fortunate, and did not get the amt. of ice that they thought we were going to get. They were saying 1/4-1/2 inch, and that could have been disaterous on the roads. It really didn't start raining and sleeting till after Lee got home last night, which was just fine with me. I sure worry something awful if he's on the road in this. But, even by bedtime, there wasn't much that had happened. I did, though, wake up in the middle of the night...doing the nightly peeeee thing...and I could hear the frozen rain hitting our bedroom window, and I could tell it was coming down good. I was expecting to see much worse than I did when I looked out this morning. Although there was no ice on the roads, they didn't have school today, anticipating what they say we've got coming before the day is over. So far...no snow, but you can tell when you look at the radar link above, that right now, columbia, which is right in the middle of the state...it shows as COU on the radar...we're like in a pocket right now, with the snow swirling all around us. It is suppose to start this afternoon...with accumulation of about an inch, then continue through the evening....another 10-12 inches...and another inch due tomorrow. Something tells me that Lee may not even be going to work tomorrow, if that's what we get. I'm gonna go through my kitchen, and make of list of a couple of things we might need, incase we get snowed in, and he can pick them up on his way home from work today. I sure hope that if it starts getting bad, that Rob will just close up the store, and let everyone come home. Anyway...I'm at home...with the way the morning went. When I got up, a little after 8, I guess, Lee already had his car running. Why...I'm not really sure, because that car has no heat...so that means no defrost. So...it was a little difficult to get the sheet of ice off the windshield. We had debated putting cardboard over the windshields last night...we sure should have!!! Then, knowing that I was suppose to go into work, he decided to try and work on my car. HA! The doors were so frozen that we couldn't get them open, and Lee borrowed something from the neighbor across the street, to pry it open...he had to do the same with his cars as well. Well...Lee did get the door open, and started the caddy...and got defrost going. Then...he headed back to try and chip away somemore at the ice on the windshild of his car...but, to no avail. Well...as cold as it was...and knowing that Lee's salary is far more important than my $16, if I went in, that I just decided...forget it! So...I told Lee to just take my car, that HAS heat, and go to work. I don't have anywhere to go. So, after Lee left, I just called Aaron, appologized for letting him down, but with all that was going on...I just wasn't gonna be able to make it in. Of course, I reminded him about the snow we're suppose to get. I told him that maybe he could get a headstart and leave a little earlier, and maybe miss some of the snow. Of course...It's been snowing already in st. louis...plus I don't know what kind of ice they got, so it's hard to say what he's gonna run into. I know that I've heard that KC got hit pretty good! My friend Cheri called this morning, just as Lee was pulling out of the driveway, to let me know that her hubby Richard was doing okay. Thank God! He went in for an angeogram, and they found that the stint thay had been put in a few years back, was starting to block up. That was what was causing the chest pain he'd been having. They were able to unblock it, and said that there was no damage to his heart, and that he had not had a heartattack. What a relief to hear. He stayed overnight in the hosp....Joplin is where he was, and his brother Roger, while I was talking to Cheri this morning,was on his way to Joplin to pick him up and bring him home. So...I wanted to say Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers. Just wanted to let you know that they worked!!!! Not surprisingly, of course! News is, and isn't so good about our friends son...the one I told you about. Drs. had to remove quite a bit of the frontal lobe...both optic nerves were severed, so he will never see again. He can move his fingers, and his legs, but I guess, as of yet, they do not know how this kind of brain damage is going to affect him. I just can't imagine anything as horrifying as what this family has to be going through. So, please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers as well. I will be sure and let you know of any news that's different. I told Moriah that I wanted her help on the kitchen, and asked her to unload the dishwasher for me, and I'd do the rest. #1, doing the kitchen is my least favorite thing to do...I'd sooner clean a toilet...hehehehehe, #2...unloading the dishwasher is another of my least favorite things. Well, she just hollered upstairs that the dishwasher was unloaded, so guess that means my part is next. Maybe it won't take me too long if I just get on it. I'm sure once that's done, I'll be back to putz somemore on the computer. I want to try and find somemore christmas videos...the html codes, to add them to my music page. So, if anyone knows where I can get some good html codes for Christmas videos, please let me know the link. Thanks.... Much love, Lev