It hurt Dan and I to wake up at 6:00 a.m. this morning. We were left irritable, cranky, and a little doughy after our "snow vacation" with all its blissful baking of cookies, mauling of cinnamon rolls, drinking of beer, lunching at restaurants, surfing the web, and renting of every video at Blockbuster. You know your scraping the bottom of your video queue when you start renting old ass favorites. Pretty Woman? Ferris Bueller's Day Off? The late 80's called and they want their movies back...
That snow vacation consisted of five blissful days off from school, sandwiched between two of the laziest weekends of all time. (Mmmm... sandwich... body. in. withdrawal. still. craving. carbs...) Then, today, there was no gentle weaning from total slothdom, no two hour delay to cushion the impact of a full day at work. Nope, instead we were thrown back in the grind. You can't imagine how crabby my hubby was this morning. You know that scene in Anchorman where Ron Burgandy is at his ultimate low, sporting major facial hair growth and stumbling down the street, scaring small children?! Meet Dan.
Beer and cookies for three days straight was a bad choice.
Not that I was much better. I tried to overcompensate for my grouchiness this morning by channeling Mary Poppins with a splash of Rachel Ray in front of all my classes. I literally saw a sea of confused faces when I chirped, "Good morning, G blockers! Everyone ready for reading stations today?!" They looked a little relieved when my perky veneer later cracked, revealing the frazzled English teacher they know and love. "This is individual work- there should be no talking- please turn your work in the box- Hannah, I can't talk about your grade now-James, did you just hear me explain that you all need to take out your iBook- I said no talkingnotalkingturn your work in the box-not my desk-I saidnotmydesk!!"
The other teachers are in SVW (snow vacation withdrawal) too. They are glued to weather.com. There have been whispers that there may be an ice storm tomorrow, voices with a hard, frenetic edge. We've had a five day snow fix, and it wasn't enough.
Where was I? Oh yes. Refer myself back to post-it.
Update: Hello, snow day #6! I'm sitting in my p.j.'s after having polished off a couple of blueberry muffins this morning. Very happy girl!
8 comments:
Your blog is fantastic -- it always puts a smile on my face! And gotta love those late-80s movies... Even if I wasn't per say alive when they came out...
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Welcome to snow day number 6! I was calling the office to say that my car is stuck in the driveway and they have not plowed any roads out here in the boonies, when I was interrupted by the direct ed call. I do feel bad for the poor elementary kids stuck at school already!
Hattie, I just can't believe it!!! :) Hope you enjoy your day off too!
I live in a state where 10 inches of snow during the wee hours of the night doesn't even get kids a 2 hour delay. Oh no, all my coworkers are so proud to say how their school never canceled a day even when it was -40 and a foot of snow. Bleh! Poor Penelope will never know the joys of waking up to a snow holiday.
THIS is hilarious!!! I wish I could just copy and paste it into my blog as a post because it's EXACTLY how I felt! Wasn't this the weirdest week ever!? I loved this post. It really did express everything I was thinking - especially what a bear your husband was when going back to work - that was ME through and through. I was SO MAD that I had to go!
Your blogs are consistently on target, but this one hit the nail on the head several times! We all get addicted to snow days! I wonder if it has something to do with hoping for snow as a child so we'd miss school. Washington got 3 feet of snow last week and I didn' get a day off. I was snowed in at a downtown hotel where 150-200 of 400 people showed up for a conference we were giving and had to stay an extra day with the participants who were stranded from all over the country. So while our office was closed, me and other co-workers were working 14 hour days putting on a conference and filling in for speakers who couldn't fly in. Talk about grumpy. I practically knocked people over getting out of the hotel when the snow finally let up! SMC
hahaha i bet that they LOVE you
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