We’re officially snowed in. YAY! Finally! Well, it’s really only about 4 inches, but Bob said that even in 4WD, the roads were bad…so we decided to stay in tonight. I’m hoping the weather report is true and we get another foot!
We spent the day playing outside, sledding, drinking hot cocoa and visiting with neighbors. I overhauled my 10 year old UGGS. I redyed them black and ignored all of the warnings not to use mink oil on them. The suede was all flat anyway. So, now I have a pair of luscious black UGGS with a smooth finish. Thanks again Grandma! Since I’m rambling…My grandma bought me some white UGGS 10 years ago. I took one look at them and thought “Yikes! These are gonna get really dirty!” plus I was in a “black” phase. So I went down to Nordstrom at the Mall of Embarrassment (one of the few places in the state that sold them at the time) without a receipt, and asked them if I could exchange them for black ones. They not only exchanged them, they totally upgraded me about $100 for the high boots for free since they didn’t have my size of the shorties in black.
To this day, I tell people that Nordstrom has the best freaking return policy…ever!
And I have a one of a kind pair of UGGS now…I kind of had to tell myself that after I realized that I had ruined a pair of $180 suede boots with mink oil.
I have to go eat my homemade chili and cornbread and sit under a blanket and a fireplace full of candles now. Since I can’t have a fire due to safety concerns…I actually looked on craigslist for electric fireplaces today.
Could this post be more random?
*Update: 12:28am
Bob just measured 6-8″ of snowfall and 12″ drifts, and he saw lightening! Yeee-Haw! Going to have to go skiing…at least sledding! The weather report said that this is the biggest storm to hit MN in 8 years. Bob and I just looked at eachother, like, ‘what’? Seems like a foot of snow has plopped on us more recently than that. Several of our friends here have never seen this much snow at once…this will be a storm of a lifetime for them. Ok, maybe not.
Here’s my bit of advice, if it is snowing and you hear thunder. Put a log on the fire…or a whole bunch of candles if you are me, chill out and cancel all of your plans for at least 36 hours. That happened to us once…TONS of wet snow! The plows didn’t even bother with our street, and who wants to shovel that heavy stuff?!?
:-)
SomeOne
February 28th, 2007