Apparently, I am getting a blizzard for my birthday. While that puts the kibosh on the super secret birthday plans downtown, a foot of snow is a pretty good substitute (especially since the plans can be revisited after the holidays). Hopefully it won’t prevent folks from gathering here for Christmas, but it’s going to be messy driving all up and down the coast and poorly plowed and iced over streets in the DC area through the rest of next week. But, I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised!

To prepare for this snowtastrophe, I went to the grocery store and will be going to Home Depot for paint, another grocery store for more stuff the first grocery store didn’t have, the liquor store, and the gas station (where I’ll also put more air in the tires). When I get home, I’ll take the leaves from the piles in the front to the back beds and bring in the ceramic pots from the porch.

Okay, that was all stuff I was doing today anyway. I’m just trying to get in the freak-out mood here in the nation’s capitol (of nonexistent plowing).