My almost Desperate Housewivesy moment

My room is located at the front of my apartment building, which means it overlooks the street. Across the street, there are two apartment buildings, and between them is a driveway to a little parking lot in the back. When I look out my window, the driveway is directly in the center.

On February 13 and 14, it snowed a LOT here. Yes, it snows a lot in Cleveland, but not all at once. Anyway, we got something like 10 or 15 inches, which could have been worse, but then it snowed some more over the next few days.

That weekend, while it was snowing away outside, I was practicing in my room. When I practice, I often look out my window, especially while I'm doing technique stuff. Sometime in the afternoon, I noticed a car pull up into the driveway, and it had Texas plates. I've seen this car before. However, there is a problem. The car starts sliding a little bit, and then won't go any further. The driveway hasn't been plowed at all, and there's a good 3 inches or so of snow that has built up, probably over a layer of ice. The guy gets out of his car, clears the snow from around his tires, then gets back in and tries again. The car moves, but a little sideways toward the wall. This time, the guy gets out and tries pushing his car. He does this a few times with no luck, then goes back to his first plan, which doesn't really help either.

After about 10 minutes of this, I feel sorry for him (afterall, he's from Texas, so I understand what he's going through). Then this brilliant thought occured to me. KITTY LITTER! I had once read that you could use it if your car got stuck in the snow. I suppose it works kind of like salt, but it must absorb the moisture because..well, that's what it does! haha. Well, guess who has a box of kitty litter? That's right. So I literally put on my coat and was about to walk across the street with the stuff when I saw that he actually pulled out of the driveway and was then driving backwards down the street. Oh well...

But then he was back and what does he do? He tries to pull up his driveway again. Not smart there, fella. Of course his car gets stuck, and I thought about going over there again, but then he got out and just left it. And then I had to go to Akron. Oh well...

So why was this "my almost Desperate Housewivesy moment"? Well, I'll tell ya.

That fella happened to be kinda cute from afar.

But then I am neither desperate nor a housewife.

The End.

Well, almost.

As brilliant as the kitty litter idea was, I later realized that there is a bucket of salt in the foyer of my apartment building...

I ♥ Dr. McDreamy

Alright, I know I haven't posted anything in a while. It's not that I haven't had any good blogging material, I just haven't been in the mood. And right now, I should be practicing (another reason), but this one needs to get done lest it leaves my head forever. Eww, I don't think I've ever used the word 'lest'...and I am definitely not a fan.

So, I had a very strange dream last night, and I'm sure it will sound even stranger because they always do when I describe them. Anyway, it was in Cleveland, but of course it wasn't exactly the same Cleveland. I remember walking down Mayfield from my apartment towards Little Italy, so I was approaching the Hill. Right where Mayfield forks, I noticed something strange in the right hand lane (on the Mayfield side). There was a white seal! And by seal, yes, I mean the sea animal. It looked like it was dead because it wasn't moving, but when I got close to him, he looked up at me and started following me. Of course this freaked me out ("Why in the world was a WHITE seal in Cleveland?? Umm, well actually why would any sort of seal be here?? And why is it following me?"). He was a very happy, energetic fella, and I instantly felt obliged to help him.

The first solution I thought of was to take him to Sea World. There is no Sea World here though, and I remembered that the only ones were in Florida, Texas, and California. I think the Baltimore National Aquarium even crossed my mind, so I was definitely thinking in this dream... Somehow, I ended up finding some sort of park here with a good bit of water and the people who worked there got all excited when they saw the seal. I guess there were some other sea creatures there...I really don't know where this was. So the seal jumped in the water and swam all around, and all was well.

I'm not sure what really happened next, but for some reason, I remember the dream ending even more strangely. This seal was somehow from Cleveland, and he was out to trick us all. He must have laid himself in the road with the intention of being rescued and taken to a new park, maybe specifically the one I took him to. He also probably wanted to get all the attention so that people would see him on the news, hear his story, then see him at the park, and even though the animals don't get paid, he did?

See? I told you it was strange. What the heck does all that mean? There was definitely more to it, but I can't remember it all. Analyze away, dream people.

After re-reading what I wrote, the twist at the end reminds me of something that Dan Brown would do. haha.

I love the SNOW!

Look at me, I'm not at work! hahahahaha


You can't tell how much snow there is because someone cleared the sidewalk at some point, but there's a lot! CIM is closed, and my boss called to tell me not to come in. Wowwwwww........

And by the way, Happy Birthday to Monkey! :)

I think my parents are trying to kill me.

Mostly my mom though.

Cause of death: giant English muffins, various meats, cake, chocolate, cookie cake, and chocolate covered strawberries.

It's like since I'm not in school anymore, I must be unable to feed myself!

It is sweet though, I'll give 'em that.

Yeah, so it's much worse now.

-1.5 degrees with a windchill of -20!

Aaaaaaaaaaa.......I really don't want to go to work! Afterall, kids don't have to go to school today.

Jill, you're probably laughing at this. haha.

Holy Cow!

It's Freezeland, Ohio!

I smell a quarter-life crisis....

I think I'm having reverse PMS. Is that even possible? Or maybe I'm just traumatized by the recent age change and the ever-stagnant list of "I still haven't blah blah blahs". And to top it off, methinks this will be a rough month. Oh, February. We have such a love/hate relationship.

But today I've got things to do, so none of this sad business is allowed!

Ha...

I'm amused by the fact that right now the temperature outside and my age are one and the same. Funny funny, Mr. Weather. Luckily, that's still a cold temperature.

And if you don't think 25 is cold, zip it!!