SNOW, SNOW, SNOW....AND A MANI

Please, please stop with the damn snow already!! Kev left yesterday and won't be home until Sunday night. Before he left he had snowblowed the driveway and did the shoveling. I was not too happy when it started snowing late last night. It was a beautiful snowfall; huge fluffy flakes that look so pretty as it's coming down.

Unfortunately, once they hit the ground they stay there. I didn't sleep well last night. It was one of those nights where my dreams were horrible and weird, and I was up three times to get a drink of Dr. Pepper and smoke a cig in order to snap myself out of them. If I don't get up, I slip right back into the same nightmare. I wish I knew where these whacko dreams came from....so bizarre and random.

But I digress. The point is every time I got up it was still snowing. I had checked the weather before I went to bed at 3:00 a.m., and it said we were supposed to get an inch. Lying assmunches. There was easily four or five inches on my deck when I got up this morning, and it's still snowing off and on. 

Of course that means more shoveling for me. My arm had finally quit being sore from the last bit of shoveling and Christmas undecorating. But off I went to clear the deck and the area between that and the garage. It was the first time I actually had to pick up the snow and toss it rather than just push it where it needed to go, and I'm hoping I don't pay for it. It's light and fluffy so at least I had that going for me. 

Right now I'm sitting here debating whether or not my arm could maybe handle the snowblower or whether I should just let the actual driveway stay as it is until Kev gets home to do it. It is self-propelled and everything, but that sucker is huge, and I have a really hard time turning it.  I've lucked out in a major way for the past few years and haven't had to attempt using it. My darling hubby has been home every time we got any measurable amount of snow for those years. I guess it stands to reason that because my arm isn't normal, this would be the year that the snow removal is falling on me. 

My brother-in-law has a plow and had offered to help out this year, but right now he is laid up at home waiting for a call from Mayo which is where he needs to go for heart surgery. So I might be whining and bitching, but what he's going through now and what he will be going through puts things in perspective in a big way. Please keep him in your prayers for me! 

I did this mani on Sunday night to wear to work on Monday. And then I wore black to work! Oh, the horror of having brown nails with a black sweater! I'm ashamed of myself.

My tan for this is 10 Professional Moonlight. Geez, I really love their polish. I don't know where it's sold but sure would like more of it. I lucked out on eBay last year and got 10 bottles for crazy cheap and have wanted more ever since. I tried a couple of different browns before finding one that stamped good enough to use, and it's China Glaze Foie Gras. As for the stamp,  no surprise there. It's the Ninja Polish DRK-A plate. I don't think I've used that particular design before. I like it.

Today I also completed another tutorial for Les Nouvelle Esthetiques & Spa magazine for the March issue and will also be doing a different one for NailIt magazine's website. Such fun! I'm always so tickled when they ask me for stuff.

So now I'm hoping I don't have to shovel any more white stuff and can just do some playing with my nails while I watch tv. It's nice knowing the house is clean and that I don't really have any actual "work" to do this weekend.

Lazy suits me.