I didn't sign up for this!

Atlanta thundersnow? I've lived here for more than a decade but I still haven't come to grips with the fact that we do sometimes have a snow day in winter. It just doesn't seem fair.

Guy phoned me last night to ask, "do you think it's really going to snow tomorrow?" I said, "No way. It's 60 degrees right now, the weatherman must be on crack." Then around noon today a bunch of nasty wet snowflakes started cascading down. Argh!

I HATE snow. I prefer climates where there are only two seasons, a wet season and a dry season, and absolutely no "winter" allowed. Sunny wanted me to play with him in the snow... ha! Not likely. I watched him play for a while, but the snow was so muddy and slushy that he and the other neighborhood kids couldn't really do much with it.

We couldn't do any more activities today because the roads are a huge mess. In order for Sunny to get his requisite physical activity, I had to resort to chasing him around the house in endless circles while trying to "whip" him with a fleece scarf. We tried it the other way around, but he's too fast. It's exhausting, but since my alternative is being woken up at 4 in the morning, I had a strong motivation to keep staggering after him.

Besides the snow, another annoying aspect of this weekend is the nasty little burn I got on Friday. That's when I went to sleep with a Sunbeam electric heating and massage pad at the foot of the bed to keep my toes warm. Something horribly wrong happened and I woke up the next morning with a second-degree burn on my ankle. It soon swelled into a burn blister the size of a dollar coin, protruding about half an inch upwards. To keep the blister from painfully bursting I've been jury-rigging protection for it. I create a thick square of padding from tissue and gauze, cut a hole in the center the size of the blister, tape the padding over the blister and onto my ankle, tape a carefully-cut-out plastic lid onto the padding and onto my ankle, then wrap a flexible fabric bandage around my ankle. I air it out for an hour every morning and night, replacing the whole thing each time. I'd put up a picture of the burn blister, but it's just too freaky.

I've decided what we're getting Sunny for his birthday. Infrared stealth goggles (surprisingly cheap!) and a keytar. Soon, he'll be able to sneak up to people in the dark and assault them with loud, tinny power chords.