[Sigh] No wordless Wednesday this week

I've put off taking pictures of the nursery (mostly because it isn't done) and pictures of my growing belly (I feel like I look like a whale now) and the "Noah-times like rain" kept me from taking any pictures of spring evidence outside (spring is in full force). So, in effect, no pictures for wordless Wednesday. Why am I even posting about this? I have no idea. I mean really, I've only done "Wordless Wednesday" like 5 times. Most likely it's because I am completely swamped with work and I am doing everything in my power to avoid it. My motivation is completely lacking for anything work related these days. I keep looking at the calendar in awe as I've only got a few weeks left before Baby T makes her appearance. AHHHHH. I am sure that I'm going to be late though. More time to put off what needs to be done! Awesome.

Fresh look

In honor of spring, I've updated the look of the blog. I know that if you're keeping up through Google Reader this means absolutely nothing, but I for one was tired of the snow and winter look. The last few days have been dreary and I'm waiting for the sun to return. Happy spring!

Wordless Wednesday

Because it made me laugh

Paul and I had a little exchange about laundry this weekend (something to do with me drying some nice new wool socks - oops!). I'm the general laundry doer in our household - not sure exactly how it worked out that way considering I had never done a load of laundry in my life until I went off to college. Yes, so sad. My mom had to teach me the basics standing in the laundry room of my freshman year dorm (I think a few tears were shed). Since then, I've been more or less successful in my laundry ventures. Sunday is our typical laundry day - and I mean ALL day. Normally I do 4 loads, but somehow it takes no less than 10 hours. Apparently I am not efficient. My mom would not be proud (seeing that she can do 4 loads on a weeknight!). Anyway, when I saw this, I had to laugh.



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Wordless Wednesday

Snow. Picture proof

In honor of the 401st post to the oldmarrieds blog, here's some snow pictures. I'm still feeling pretty bitter about the snowfall, so I didn't really try to capture the 'winter wonderland' essence.


Front yard view at 5:30am, decided to go back to bed




Fluffy azaleas


Paul shoveling snow into his truck before heading off to work


More fluffy azaleas


And this. Taken on Thursday afternoon when it was sunny and around 60. Hopefully spring will be back soon!

Snow... blah, blah, blah

Just because I always do some kinda of blog entry from snow, I'm posting this now. The stupid weather wrecked havoc on our weekend. We were down in Atlanta having a perfectly wonderful visit and baby shower when WHAM(!) snow enters the forecast. We had to cut our trip short after Delta canceled every flight to RDU today. We also decided to rent a car to drive home... in the middle of the night. Needless to say, I'm no fan of the cold, white, evil stuff right now. Paul and I are both operating on about 5 hours of sleep since waking Saturday morning and after driving 6.5 hours home (Paul did the driving).

It did end up snowing in Atlanta (between 2-6 inches across town) and the airport was a disaster. And it did end up raining almost as soon as we got home, so we beat the airport mess and the mess on the roads by getting home ASAP. Now we're just waiting to see what happens here overnight. I'm kinda hoping for a snow morning (not day) so I can sleep in a little. Goodness knows we need it! (the sleep, that is)

Winter storm warning details - - -
"Statement as of 3:53 PM EST on March 01, 2009

... Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 9 am EST Monday...

A strong upper level low currently over eastern Georgia will
pivot northeast across central North Carolina tonight. As this
occurs... widespread precipitation is expected to redevelop across
the warning area. Although precipitation may initially begin as a
wintry mix... precipitation is expected to become all snow by
midnight. Locally heavy snowfall can be expected at times
overnight... with the heaviest snow most likely falling along the
Interstate 40 and Interstate 85 corridor from Chapel HIll... west
to Greensboro... and southwest to Charlotte.

Storm total snowfall amounts across the warning area are expected
to range from 3 to 6 inches... with locally higher amounts. The
heaviest amounts are expected to fall across The Triad and
western Piedmont... in locations such as Burlington... Greensboro...
Winston Salem... Asheboro... and Albemarle. The lightest amounts in
the warning area are expected to fall along and east of the
Highway 1 corridor... including locations such as Raleigh... and
Louisburg.

Despite the previous warm conditions... travel will likely become
treacherous late tonight as snowfall begins to accumulate on area
roads and highways during periods of moderate to heavy snow.
Travel on bridges and overpasses will be especially dangerous. In
addition... strong and gusty northerly winds are expected... and
wind chills could frequently drop into the teens tonight through
Monday morning.

Citizens of central North Carolina are urged to monitor the
latest forecasts and conditions... and to avoid travel tonight and
Monday morning if possible."