It's this little bastard who determines whether or not we get an early spring or 6 weeks of more winter all because he can or cannot see his shadow.
Right…makes sense.
So Phil the ground hog saw his shadow on Feb. 2nd, Ground hog Day. And I'm thinking this may be actually a legit way to see into the future. Because this winter sucks and not 3 days after Phil scurried around running from his shadow, we got blasted by another storm, an ice storm. Thanks, Phil, really appreciate it dude. Ice on the roads were projected to be so bad local schools shut down BEFORE any bad weather hit. Not my school, oh no that'd be too convenient.
But the ice was SUPER bad. And it came really fast. It was just a normal, albeit frigid, day when I went to school and work. Not 4 hours later, it gets dark and ice starts to fall and in 5 hours it's a struggle to just walk outside it's so slick. And then driving?? I managed to pull into my parking lot and then proceeded to slide all the way over a curb and into a dumpster. Yeah…don't go over 7miles an hour apparently was a memo I did not receive. Poor Pearl has a little bit of a scratch now, no other damage thank goodness. It's like driving on a hockey rink and let's just say this Cali girl wasn't leaving anytime soon. Eff that crap.
Some classes did get canceled because night classes with ice, cold and the dark roads is never a fun ordeal and they knew a ton of people would just not show anyway.
But as fun as that is to get class canceled, it's not snow, it's not fluffy, it's hard and encases your car and everything that is outside, you can't build a snowman, you don't want any skin exposed because it's so cold your body literally is in pain if you're outside too long, and it just down right SUCKS. If I can't ski on it, it's not worth it. It's so flat and it's just ice and it's super sucky.
But before this storm hit, and all the news channels had advisories, and every single person was talking about it, WannaBe thought "Hey, let's play flag football outside in the ice and snow. That's fun! We'll spend all day outside in the cold playing football. It'll be great!" and he did the really great job of saying it aloud and an even better job of pitching it to the boss.
WHAT
Almost word for word what I told WannaBe about his brilliant idea.
But the Boss guy ok'ed it and we got busy quickly pushing it on every level. 4 days to plan a completely impromptu tournament? Get people excited about playing outside in the snow and ice and freezing temps? Who wouldn't want to do that?? Apparently just me.
Before I get to all that Snow Bowl football fun allow me to side track a bit. During the week we still had basketball, which is going rather well, (*knock on wood) for now. My newbie officials are still very young and very green and every time I put them on for a Men's A game I feel like I'm sending my rookies to the wolves. But they are learning and I love it when I take them aside at half time to go over what else to work on and then I see them try it. To see them actively try and ask questions and then administer what they learn on the court…best feeling in the world. It's little wins like that, which remind me why I do what I do. I start beaming like a proud parent and I may look silly, but they have come so far from their first days when they couldn't even blow a whistle. They are the best part of my job.
On the school side, it was a relatively easy week, with only a geo quiz. Yeah, like geo as in geography like I had to memorize each country of Africa and where it is located. I vaguely remember doing this in 4th grade so while listening to Shakira's "This is Africa" song I played a country matching game online that's meant for grade school kids but I'm in 17th grade so I think it counts.
All 55 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe, I got it on lock. I sometimes would practice in the office which was a real treat for my boss and everyone else. Got 55/55 though!
On Friday, some business school friends and I wanted to celebrate our 55 points all thanks to home girl Shakira, so we went out. I met them at the bar and as I was a little late, I found them already with a group of people but not anyone I knew, but then I noticed one of the guys sitting there…
Ummm aren't you my accounting teacher?
Yeah! Hey! How's it going? Here, have a seat, come join us! Want a drink? I'm getting shots!
Again...WHAT
So yeah. That happened. We spent the evening chatting and laughing and I actually had a lot of fun. One of my better nights in my time here. I love grad school. I get to hang out with friends who happen to also teach me accounting. And they buy everyone shots. And then you buy everyone shots. And then you all go out to the dance floor and make a fool of ourselves but it's hilarious and you're all too intoxicated to really care that much.
Now let me go back to the flag football tourney in the snow, dubbed the Snow Bowl, naturally. Day before we thought we had gotten everything ready to go in the am. Funny how even with a check list and more than 1 person that never ends up being the case.
I told my boss that even though it wasn't my tourney, I'd go and check on it. It didn't start really early so that was a plus, but when I got to the field only players were there, no sup. Hmmm, odd. This isn't good. I figure they are running behind they might be en route. Get to the Rec, all of the stuff is still there, where we had left it the night before. Cue instantaneous head ache.
Daddy always said, rely on yourself and no one else.
No. Not cool. We were supposed to start in 13 minutes, where the heck is everyone!?! After sharing a few choice words with WannaBe, the sup shows up and we get into salvage mode. And to add to being late, we grabbed the wrong keys, couldn't find flags, or footballs for the longest time and we started about 45min behind schedule. I strive for perfection but it was just one of those, "can we do anything right?" kind of mornings. Thank goodness it was a bunch of dudes wanting to play and they didn't care too much about their saturday plans. We get games going and soon it's fine. We actually get back on schedule. Yet it's cold. But you can tell everyone is having a blast. Something about football and snow, just makes you wanna play. I even ran around and slipped and slid trying to play catch. I actually like playing in the snow and some of my best memories were playing softball in the snow in high school. I just don't like the whole it's 16 degrees out. I'll take above 30 thanks.
After things were settled and running more smoothly, I spent the rest of the day with Kaylee as we both are trying to renovate and decorate our apartments. She has a sunny yellow, green theme going and an adorable floral couch now that looks like it is from 1968 and I have a beach house, nautical theme (go figure, I would want some sun and sand in all of this wintery crap) going on in my apartment. We're going off of ideas from pinterest and it's pretty fun. A perfect way to just stop the madness for a bit and just think, hmm should I get the seashell lamp or buy the anchor to hang on my wall? Pure bliss.
I wasn't planning on going out last night but then surprise, did. and it was fun, met up with the girls, our blonde squad and had a good time singing along to cover songs and realizing that I may have to invest in some plaid while I'm here, since 99% of the people last night were in plaid. This cali girl may start to accept the country side of her life a bit more thanks to good ol' So. Ill. I voluntarily changed my radio to a country station earlier…what is happening to me?!? I guess if I can't beat them, might as well join them. Yeehaw?
To be continued!
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