Well, I finally made it home on Christmas Day at about 11:30am. I walked in the door and could see two bowls of cat food on the floor. But no cat in sight.

I looked everywhere and called him for about ten minutes to no avail. Finally, I looked under MB's bed and there he was. About an hour later he finally came out from under the bed.

And he hasn't shut up since. Or stopped trying to lay on me. It is almost like living with TS's cat Angel (from my time in California). This morning I woke up and his little paw was curled around my hand. The cat was holding my hand as I slept. Ugh. I hate cats.

After finding the cat, I made some mac & cheese and then went to bed for most of the day. I woke up at 8pm when I couldn't breathe because the cat was on my chest. It was an interesting Christmas.


I spent the rest of the evening watching a little gem of a movie called EdTV. A classic and underrated movie. Watch it again with a box of tissues. If you don't cry watching Jenna Elfman's character watch Mathew McConahey's character get it on with Elizabeth Hurley, then you are dead inside. Dead!

If you want to watch a really good moive - an awesome movie - and I mean this with no sarcasm, go see Slumdog Millionaire. Seriously the best movie I watched this year. Even RF managed to stay awake and engaged during the whole movie. And RF loves nothing more than paying $10 for a nap.

I am now at KT's house. This brings the grand total of houses I have slept in other than my own up to 4.

Last night EP and KT picked me up at work and EP dropped us off at ET's (mother of KT) where we ate dinner and sat around drinking.

At one point, I put my laundry in the wash and sat in PT's bath robe. I felt a little like Hugh Hefner as I sat on the couch drinking a rum and coke and then later as I ate dinner while wearing a bath robe.

Then EP came back from Dundee and picked us up to take us home. He had a little difficulty getting his car in the garage. KT and I were watching from the house and at one point he went in the garage and got a crutch. "Well he is either going to use the crutch as a shovel or beat the car with it," I told KT.

As it was already 11 when we got to KT's, we all pretty much went to bed.

I woke up this morning when Duncan stuck his face in mine and kissed me. His breath smelled like dog food. Not the worse kiss I have ever had.

Then Karin opened the door and said, "Oh, it's snowing."

In about two hours, EP is going to attempt to drive me home. This is provided we can get anywhere.

Snow Day.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

For those of you who don't live in Portland, let me fill you in on a little weather news.

Starting last Sunday and going through to this very second, Portland has been experiencing snow, ice, snow. more snow. even more snow and super cold below 35 degree weather. And it has sucked balls. Majorly.

I normally would not complain about the snow and cold. I am a Montana girl by way of North Dakota (and a brief stop in Wyoming). I enjoyed the snow a lot this past Saturday. But then it just got out of control. Because the city has shut down. Like majorly shut down. No buses. State of emergency. Troubled 911 service.Etc. Etc. Etc.

Friday morning I left for work in the snow. After work, I went down town to see AA. I ended up staying the night after hanging out too late to catch the last bus.

So Saturday morning I woke when RF called to meet for breakfast. And it was snowing!

So we walked over to 23rd to catch some breakfast and then over to Borders downtown to buy a book. Some where between breakfast and Borders, the snow intensified. And then after Borders we went to Nordstrom Rack where I bought boots. And then we watched Four Christmases. And then we went home so I could try and get on the bus.

The bus that never came.

So after RF found me in a snow bank/bus stop, he took me home and DB, AA, RF, EB and I played Apples to Apples and ate some dinner. Then I spent the night on RF's couch.

And my cell phone completely died.

So in the morning I got up and went to work (This was Sunday). EB was the only supervisor there. There was one bookseller and one cashier. Most everyone else called out.

Thus beginning a cycle that has yet to end.

All the bus services to my apartment are canceled. I have been wearing the same clothes (I have washed them!) since Friday. I have slept on EB's couch since Sunday night. I have walked to and from work in more than a foot of snow Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

This morning after begging, pleading and pretty much crying - the land lord agreed to go check on the cat and feed him. MB is in California until after the New Year. Let's hope I can get home before then.

Because I have not been home, I have spent more money on cold weather gear, food and general care taking thus resulting in me being broke. So when we do thaw.......I'll still have no money and will still be sitting at home. (Hopefully my own).

My Christmas plans are shot.

Luckily, KT's mom lives within walking distance of the store so I am going there tomorrow and spending the night and then hopefully on Christmas Day I can get close enough to home to walk in to the apartment. We shall see.

Also, because of being stranded in various places, all my gifts to give away are left in various spare bedrooms. Plus, my mom shipped me some holiday presents and I'm sure they will sit at the post office until after the first!

I do have to thank EB. She has given me a couch to sleep on, made sure I didn't completely die while walking to work (I don't walk so well) and not made too big of a deal when I had a complete breakdown this morning. (Thinking about a stranded cat, wearing the same clothes, being cold and tired, broke and sad because it's the holidays starts to add up.). Luckily she is with her family today in Eugene because her aunt drove through and picked her up.

So I am sitting here waiting for my laundry to get done so I can go to bed to get up and be at the store by 7am.

My cell is completely dead and will remain so until I get home or find someone else with a Samsung charger that works for my phone. If you have called me or texted me, I have not received any of it and probably will not for quite some time.


Merry Christmas. God Bless us Everyone.

I really would like to take a nap right now, but I can't because I'm in the process of watching ZY and TY for the day/overnight.

JY and My are celebrating their anniversery in Vegas this weekend. JY ran a half-marathon on the strip this morning. Crazy lady.

This morning I woke up super early and packed a few things before walking down the trail to Scholls Ferry so I could catch a bus downtown and then out to NE to get to the Y house by ten a.m.

And kids wear you out.

Thus the wish for a nap.

Friday night I went to Starbucks with AA and kicked his ass at Scrabble. Then went to the Ambassador for karaoke, horrilbe service and an over-priced martini. (It's Grey-Goose, not holy water.)

Saturday I was up early for two different used book sales. Then home for a small nap and then over to Beaverton to meet AM for dinner. Then home to fall asleep before SNL and up early to watch the kidditos.

"I think I have chronic fatigue syndrome," I told a friend Saturday morning.

"I think you have lazy bones syndrome," she replied.

"You know, it is that sort of attitude that gives sufferers of this disease a bad name."

And then I conceded, saying "I have stay up too late, get up to early disease."



Reading update:

Recently finished The Shadow of the Wind.

Now Reading: Me & Mr Darcy, A Mercy, and What I Saw and How I Lied