A winter storm came through the Carolinas which started on Friday night. Snow fell through Saturday and now we are buried in snow! How exciting is that, eh? Well, when I say buried, take that with a lot of grains of salt especially if you live where snow is a regular occurrence. Don’t forget that we live in the South where any snow is a big event. So when we get almost a foot of snow, we consider that being ‘buried’.

We’ve been eagerly anticipating this snow since Wednesday when they started spraying the streets with the nasty anti-ice concoction. I was still at work around six o’clock on Friday evening when the snow started falling. When I saw the snow fall through my office window, you’d think a parade was going by! I was almost jumping up and down with glee and so was my office mate who eagerly came to the window with me. I hurriedly wrapped things up at work and headed home. As I was driving, the snow kept falling at a brisk pace. It was so pretty I had to take a video. I just love the look of snow coming at me and swirling around the car. It was beautiful! And I just found the coincidence so amusing that while I was enjoying the snow fall, the song ‘It never rains in California’ started playing on the radio! I just had to take a video. lol!
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My girls are doing so much better than I was at their age, so I guess they’re not doing too badly and I’m not such a slacker mom after all. I was, however, a slacker student and I admit it.

We had a good laugh about my slackness today during dinner. My daughter Jade was debating whether to take another year of AP calculus and was wondering whether she would have to take two separate AP tests for each section… I guess her Calculus class is divided into AB section the first semester and CD section for the second semester… or something like that. I said, “Why are you asking me? I don’t know! You should ask your teacher. I didn’t even take calculus until I was already in college.” To which, she answered, “I was only thinking out loud, mom”. Yeah, well of course she was! I knew she wasn’t expecting a serious answer from me! What was I thinking!
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Dare I? Should I even bother? I’ve been ambivalent about what I want to do with my blogging lately and between that and the fact that I’m now about three times busier at work, there just haven’t been much time for updates. I’ve also been feeling uninspired of late. Just don’t want to write anything. Well not anything that even feels remotely like work, anyway.

So, should I dare to commit? Some blogger friends have taken on daily blogging as a project for 2010. Should I even jump on the bandwagon only to fall off later? It’s gotten me thinking…

I decided to stay off the wagon, but maybe follow sedately by instead. I’ll attempt to blog daily or as often as I can but I won’t be kicking myself if I stumble either. I’m 5 days behind the 365 project so should I call mine the 360-project-give-or-take-a-few? Sounds good to me!

So here’s to day 1 of the 360 project give or take a few. LOL!

Today, I am thankful for friends who can bring a smile to a dreary day.

I am thankful I still have a job even though I now have to do it in a half empty office.

I am thankful today, most of all, for having married my best friend 18 years ago. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my love, and my best friend!

“I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we’re in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday”