What a grand day to have off from work!\u00a0 I woke up at 6 am and promptly turned off my pager, no longer on duty.\u00a0 Then I went back to sleep \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Later I made pancakes for breakfast, and shared them with my dear husband who was working from home.\u00a0 You see, when we got up there was already 3 inches of snow, with much more forecast.\u00a0 We took Jem to daycare so she would get plenty of exercise despite the cold.\u00a0 Also, we could have an undisturbed day of coming and going from the house with her out of it.\u00a0 I haven’t taken her to daycare in a long time and gee whiz, I thought she was going to stroke out on excitement.\u00a0\u00a0 She starts running around the backseat, whimpering and clawing at the window, getting more and more exacerbated the closer you get.\u00a0 She DEFINITELY knows the route there.<\/p>\n
To give him time to work undisturbed, I slowly shopped around Target, one of my favorite suburban pastimes.\u00a0 I needed some Halloween candy, stat!\u00a0 I also called my sister who is shacked up in the mountains<\/a>, hopefully having a relaxing time. \u00a0 Then I got a peppermint hot chocolate at Starbucks and chatted with my mom, watching the snow fall in heavy clumps.<\/p>\n At home I met up with Ben and we walked down the block to the local Chinese restaurant.\u00a0 I love eating lunch out with Ben, and I love hot egg drop soup and rice with soy sauce on cold days.\u00a0 It was quite a trek to get there actually.\u00a0 The snow was knee deep in places on the way back.\u00a0 We passed a group of snowboarders on the sidewalk. They had built a ramp of snow at the top of a set of stairs down the hill.\u00a0 The stairs have a long, shallow rail running down it.\u00a0 They also hooked a bungee cord to the railing.\u00a0 They would bungee up the snow ramp, then jump on the railing with their snow boards, ride it down the hill, falling off onto the snow banks when they lost balance.\u00a0 Very clever.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Ben got back to work and I finished Shakespeare in Love on Netflix.\u00a0 Good movie.\u00a0 For a snack, I indulged in my all time favorite – diet cola with ruffled cheddar baked lays.\u00a0 Browsing for another instant play Netflix show, I found a real gem –\u00a0 <\/p>\n Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre!\u00a0 Holy crap this is a treasure.\u00a0 Did anyone else watch this when they were kids?\u00a0 It was on Showtime in the 80s, then picked up for syndication by the Disney Channel and PBS.\u00a0 I selected Snow White to watch.\u00a0 What. a. cast. First, we have Vincent Price as the mirror.\u00a0 With his face is painted like wood and stuck in the wall, he provides droll narration.\u00a0 Then Vanessa Redgrave plays the queen.\u00a0 I kid you not, she has red crimped hair frizzed out and wanders around waving her arms, draped in teal and purple velor.\u00a0 Fabulous.\u00a0 When she dies of vanity at the end she actually sticks her tongue out to make goofy gaggy noises while rolling on the floor.\u00a0 Fantastic.\u00a0 Finally, the singing prince is none other than my beloved<\/a> Rex Smith!\u00a0 One year after his world debut in the Pirates of Penzance film, he’s back!\u00a0 Singing!\u00a0 In thigh high leather boots!\u00a0 Oh, be still my heart.\u00a0 The episode needed a lot less stupid dwarfs and a lot more Rex.<\/p>\n So yeah, really good day so far.\u00a0 I’m not feeling the cooking vibe, so at Target I bought ready made frozen lasagna, ready made garlic bread, and salad in a bag.\u00a0 If you know me, you know how weird that is.\u00a0 Ben said “This doesn’t look right” as he was putting the groceries away.\u00a0 I need to find something quick to take to movie club though.\u00a0 Brian has picked a super-Halloweeny treat.\u00a0 It’s the Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.\u00a0 How great is that?\u00a0 I hope I can watch it all and still get enough sleep for tomorrow when it’s back to work for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a grand day to have off from work!\u00a0 I woke up at 6 am and promptly turned off my pager, no longer on duty.\u00a0 Then I went back to sleep \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Later I made pancakes for breakfast, and shared them with my dear husband who was working from home.\u00a0 You see, when we got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}