The sun is shining today and making the ice melt.  I just got back from getting some lunch and enjoyed my drive watching all the ice come crashing down from the utility lines and trees.  I drove down a rode that has trees growing over the road and with the sun shining on ice it was absolutely beautiful.  It is 39 degrees out now which feels alot warmer than we have had in the past few days.  I only wore a jacket out to lunch and although I was a tad cold it was nice to not be all bundled up.

Last night the boys came over for dinner.  It was funny, we had the news on TV before we ate and AJ sat there starring at the screen of the listing of school closings.  He was hoping his school would be announced.  Only the schools out in the country are still out because those cities do not have salt and sand crews to go out and clear their roads.  Some of the country schools attempted to send their kids back to school yesterday and there were two bus accidents, luckily no children hurt, so they cancelled and were out again today.  I would not be surprised if those kids do not go back until Monday.  The only bad thing is most school districts only build 2 snow days into the school schedule so any additional days they are out past the 2 have to be made up at the end of the year.  Some kids, especially those in the country end up going to school into June.  It is kind of ridiculous that the school districts only build 2 snow days into the schedule because we usually get a couple of significant snow falls each year and in the past 5 years or so have had at least one ice storm a year.

After dinner I had to run to Walgreens and get AJ a spiral notebook, deodorant, and the baby items for Christmas donations.  His mother absolutely floors me.  He has mentioned to us that he was out of deodorant and that he told his mom to get him some.  This has been at least 2 weeks ago and she still has not got him any.  Come on, what is deodorant going to set you back....a couple bucks?  I bought him 2 so that he could take one to school for his gym locker and one for home.  The boy is nearly a teenager and is very active.  I would think his mother would rather spend the money for the deodorant than to smell him all stinky!!!! 

Hubby then took the boys home and I helped Hylari with homework which gave me a big headache.  For Math she had to do basketball free throw percentages.  I am not the best at Math so I cringe when she has Math homework.  I love Algebra and am good at that but don't ask me to do percentages, fractions, etc.  But for her sake I have to suck it up and prentend like I like it so that she won't get an attitude about it.  Then after that she had to fill in a study guide on solvents, solutions, mixtures, and chemical changes.  Yet another subject that I just do not enjoy.  I have to go to the internet and try to learn all of this stuff to make sure she is doing it right because I have been out of school for nearly twenty years.......I don't remember all this stuff.  And goes to show you...you really do not use it after school, but once again I have to keep that kind of stuff to myself.

So get her all done, showered and almost in bed.  We went to pick out her clothes for the next day and she tells me she does not like any of her shirts.  Uuuugh!  She mostly has shirts with brown in them because that is an "in" color right now.  Well apparently all the kids tease kids who wear brown and say they are wearing poo.  They are in middle school I thought they would be past these kind of things.  She needed more long sleeve shirts so I told her I would run up to the store and see if I could find her some with the understanding since she was not going with me she IS going to wear what I buy.  She is so picky about her clothes these days.  She prefers clothes that look worn and ratty but girlie.....Hollister type clothes.  I got Hylari in bed and my hubby all tucked in and did a few things around the house.  I thought I was leaving the house at 9:30PM but it was actually 10:30PM.  Thank goodness for Christmas extended hours at the store.  I drove up to JcPenny's and found that they would be open until 11:00PM.  I picked her up a few shirts and then went down to the purse department.  I realized that as many times that I have been to JcPenny's I have never been past the juniors section.  I am not a clothes person at all.  If it is comfy I wear it.  I prefer sweats and wish my work would let me wear them into the office.  Anyway...I am a purse FREAK and I didn't realize JcPenny's had such cute purses.  I found one that I really liked but I didn't buy it.  I impulse buy purses so I thought it would be better to sleep on it and then go back and get it.  Well I can't quit thinking about the purse so I told my hubby while we are out tonight I want to stop by and get it and he can give it to me for Christmas.  I think he is just glad I have the purse already picked out.  Although I am a purse freak it has to be the right purse or I won't buy it.  Early on when I first met my husband I asked him if he wanted to go purse shopping with me and he agreed.  It ended up taking two days before I found the ONE.  He tells everyone that story all the time. 

After I left JcPenny I ran by Walmart for a few things and ended up not getting home until 11:45PM!  I DVR'd my favorite show, Two and a Half Men, and watched that.  Then this prison documentary came on and I got engaged in that.  It was a true story about a couple of inmates.  I enjoy watching prison shows for some reason.  Don't EVER want to go there but enjoy watching them.  I felt bad for this one guy because you could tell he really turned his life around but he will never get out.  Of course, though, he did commit murder and he shouldn't be out.  But for the most part those that go in never rehibilitate themselves and there are very few that do and I think if given the chance could perhaps educate some that will end up going in from going in.  Does that make sense?  It is also interesting how prisoners have their own language or terms that you and I will never know.  I can't remember what they are but they show them talking to the parole board and they will rattle off all these acronyms which stand for things in the prison.  I think one was like EOS which means a prisoner who is at their "end of service", or getting out of prison.  There was another guy on there that had a terrible temper and I would be afraid being around him even with him behind bars.  Oh and these cats come onto the prison site and the inmates play with them and feed them but the guards do not want them there because they set off the sensor alarms when they climb the fences.  This one guard has been trying to catch this one cat in particular for several years and he can't catch her.  He has put out traps and she knows not to go near them.  She also will go up to the inmates but if she sees the guard come she runs off.  It was funny and the guard was making light of the situation although he hated the cat. 

I finally got to bed at 1:30AM after I made lunches and cleaned up.  I actually got up really good this morning although I didn't think I was going to. 

Thats all for today folks....you all come back now, you here?