Ah, yet another romantic parental valentine's day

Valentine's Day arrived with our first snowstorm. Yahoo! Unfortunately, I was not able to take advantage of a snow day - boo! Whazup with that? Every time snow was predicted in North Carolina, the whole state would shut down in anticipation. I guess these Bostonians are a little more prepared. I only fell once on my way to school. I wasn't hurt - only my ego - and noone in Harvard Square stopped to help - harumph.

But fanciful weather always brings up new conversations among strangers - about, well, the weather. After my social networking/social capital class, I studied for my quant exam.

Chris had gotten me a chocolate bar for VD day, and I had made with the kids a homey card - I thought I'd get him a something a little sexier - hmmm...what was available at the K School cafeteria - ah, the staff had thrown some red/pink/white m&m's into little plastic containers - perfect. I bought one and ate about half of them while studying.

Anyway, then I headed back home among the mush - throughout the day it had snowed, sleeted and rained - there were literally 8-12 inch puddles all the way home. When I got home I cooked (rare, I know these days) a romantic/hectic dinner for four before heading out to my MIT class where I had to turn in a paper and do a presentation. That was not as eventful as the drive out there. It was so incredibly icy - my first real snow/ice drive in about 20 years - I did fine, except I thought it was better to leave the cold air on - for some reason I thought that would defrost faster - so I was literally driving with the drivers' side window down scraping the windshield as I went along til I realized my mistake. Oops.

All of my MIT classmates had no weather stories to share - they had all stayed inside the campus building maze all day. Noone even wanted a ride home. Hmmm...

Back home to study. Liam had been throwing up when I got back and I attempted to study for my exam. Liam's all night vomiting prevented even any vday snuggling - oh, well, maybe in 2025...