Beth's Contradictory Brain

Good Wife and Mom

Reading Sarah's post made me decide to write this.

Nerdstar and I were talking about "life" the other night at 3 a.m. and I said I felt like I hadn't accomplished a damn thing in the past ten years. Then, I thought to myself - well, other than be a good wife. And then she said, well, you've taken good care of me.

With the Army and Iraq and the moves and civilian jobs... it hasn't been easy. Even now we can't predict where her career will take us next. Although, it's looking like she might finally be getting out of the Army in the next few months.

And now - with Pinhead on the way, I finally get to do the one job I've been waiting over eight years to do - be a mom. I can't wait. And I think I'm going to be really good at it. And other than Nerdstar and my Mom, I don't think anybody really knows or understands this.

If Not Now, When?

I figure if I can't manage to update this here old blog during this huge snow storm, well, then I'm pretty lame.

Pics here.

We definitely got over two feet of snow here in our little part of the world. Crazy! Thankfully, after our winter in Johnstown, PA, we have snow pants and snow boots. I also have a fairly decent knowledge of snow shoveling. It's about knowing where to put it and keeping up with it as it comes down. I went out and cleared the sidewalk and around the cars and the deck Friday night around 9 pm. Then did it about 10 am Saturday and again about 8 pm. That was some hard work.

Our neighbors are complete idiots. We live in a cul-de-sac as you can see from the pics. I knew from the big snow we got back in December that the snow plows wouldn't be able to move much snow because the neighbors on both sides of us had their cars parked in the street - sticking out, not parallel. So, yesterday morning before the snow was too terrible, Nerdstar asked our neighbor to move his car into his driveway and out from in front of our yard. There was some other people coming and going from there that had been in and out of his driveway, so it was clear. He said that the street was free for anyone to park, he could park where he wanted, and slammed the door in her face. WTF? In the past he's seemed nice enough, last summer he even loaned me his lawnmower. Ok fine.

About 9 or so last night some people are out shoveling a path for the other next door neighbor to move her car. I figure they shoveled a lot of snow for over an hour. I thought, cool, as long as one of this isn't in the way, they'll be able to plow the snow by our driveway. Ends up they moved the car to behind the other neighbor's car. WTF? Now it's basically in the middle of the street block access to the circle. Wow.

Not long after that the snow plow comes through. I was kinda pissed. I would have had over twenty square feet of two to three feet of snow to move to get my car out of the driveway. Then there were people out there so I went out to see what was up. Thankfully the plow dude wanted them to move the car. Again, ok cool. At least he had some brains.

But, they were moving it back where it was, still in the way. Ugh.

In the end, they moved that car down the street, finally, and the first neighbor's car ended up in his driveway, and our street is really, really clear. The stupid part is it took over an hour for the plow man to clear just our little circle. If the neighbor had simply moved his car that morning...

I'll never understand stubborn, stupid, rude people.

So. We're mostly being really lazy. Looking forward to the Super Bowl tonight. Gotta get out of the house tomorrow and get more groceries before more snow comes on Tuesday.