~ brian's brains ~
Snow, snow, everywhere snow. Interestingly, Boise's annual precipitation is roughly 12 inches, yet this winter we've seen what seems like FEET UPON FEET of snow. Normally, we don't get much snow down here in the valley. Every morning there's fresh snow that I need to walk through...I mean, slip and slide through on my walk to work. It's frustrating because I'm not equipped to deal with this. Over the weekend I pulled out my old boots, thinking they'd be better to walk through the icy streets with. And yea, the slipping and the sliding is reduced - however, they must need to be resoled or something, because when I arrive to work my feet are always moist. I am not a fan of moist feet. In addition, the snow has caused me a good amount of anxiety recently. At the beginning of this week, I was scheduled to be working in a mountainous town several hundred miles to the North. On Sunday morning when I checked the weather forecast, in a big and bright red bolded box at the top of the screen were the words "WARNING: SEVERE WINTER WEATHER ALERT" and in the accompanying explanation were the words and phrases "icy roads," "strong winds," and "making travel treacherous and impossible." I then looked at the road conditions across the state and noted that the highway to my destination was marked with a clear hazardous designation. I then decided that I was not willing to risk my life for my job. Below is a visual representation of my decision-making process...
In other thrilling news, I went bananas in a random cleaning effort last night. I had been slow to do much after getting home from work. Somehow, I omitted my afternoon snack, and so I was experiencing a massive low-blood sugar attack when I got home. I stood in front of my refrigerator for some time contemplating various food options. What I really wanted was a ginormous bowl of cereal. Yet I felt compelled to utilize some vegetables and make whatever I thought would be a "real dinner." As I drank some juice to satiate my blood sugar, I spent a lot of time pureeing loads of garlic, and cutting up red peppers, yellow squash, broccoli, and onion. I also made up some really crappy pasta with sauce. When I finally sat down to eat, I had no interest in the food I had made. My mind was still on the ginormous bowl of cereal. So I picked at the veggies for a while and had a few forkfulls of pasta before abandoning the plate in favor of cereal. I then spent an hour in front of my computer watching a thrilling science fiction program about aliens and space travel. After the program was over, I contemplated everything that I needed to do that evening. And proceeded to give myself a guilt trip about doing these things. Instead of doing anything that I was supposed to do, I went into my kitchen, moved my refrigerator into the middle of the room and proceeded to scour every nook and cranny behind where the fridge had been. The kitchen in my apartment is kinda goofy. It's apparent that the original architect never intended for a kitchen to exist where one now does and that sometime during the last 100 years someone threw in a second rate fridge into a random space where it was within reach of an electrical outlet. As a result, an opportunity exists for some truly disgusting and horrifying dirtiness to thrive underneath and behind the fridge. I have absolutely no idea if anyone's ever cleaned back there before, but it didn't seem so. I actually have no idea if cleaning behind and under fridges and other kitchen appliances is a normal process, but it certainly wasn't something that people did in my household when I was growing up - - mainly because of the way that the kitchen was designed. Anyway, it was quite the ordeal, if only for the fact that moving the fridge (which must weigh 4,000 pounds) was a bit of an adventure. Afterwards, I decided to take myself to the gym and listen to some tunes. I don't know if anyone is interested, but I have noticed a significant difference in my abdominal region as a result of my fake pilates exercises. After the gym, I cuddled up with some sudoku before going to bed.