It's Winter, You Know the Drill

I woke up to another wintry scene here in Portland. J ran into the bedroom and whisked up the shades so I could see the giant, puffy flakes that were falling. As usual, there were cars driving around and one guy almost fishtailed onto the sidewalk. I just missed getting a video. Damn.

It's been pretty cold lately (so cold that the other morning I woke up shivering even after putting on sweatpants and a sweatshirt). Since we're at the height of cold and flu season, I somehow convinced myself that I had a fever. I even took my temperature, but found I was perfectly normal at 96.8 (yes, I normally run that cold, must be the ice that courses through my veins). Baffled, I walked out into the living room and J was all bundled up too. Apparently, he left the living room window open, which turned our apartment into a meat locker in just a few hours.

It did warm up a little today and by noon the snow was gone. Now it's just slushy and dirty again. It was pretty while it lasted, but is still totally bizarre that we're getting more of this white stuff (in the city that "never" gets snow) than we ever did in D.C. Thankfully, this time I didn't have any site visits to travel to or research to conduct. Instead, I hunkered down at my desk to figure out my updated version of Quicken that is for home and business. After 5 hours, I still haven't really figured exactly how I'm going to do my invoice for this recent project, but I do know a lot more about keeping books. And we're definitely all set with our 2009 budget. So, I'll guess I'll just charge today to admin. Ha.