Snow & Scares

Yesterday Dykewife asked if it really is unusual to get snow in April.

It sort of is. It's definitely not unusual to have flurries, but it is odd to have more than an inch in one storm. I'm not sure how many inches fell yesterday, because eventually it turned to rain and some of the snow melted. The weather forecasters were calling for eight inches, and while I'm not sure we got that, a storm of that size is unusual.

Today I'm wearing sandals. It's still chilly for sandals, but dammit, it's spring. Spring means sandals. Hey, I don't make the rules, I just follow them.

The other day Mike got a scare when my sister stumbled across his MySpace page. His MySpace page has a link to his LiveJournal, which has a link to my LiveJournal, which has a link to this blog, which, as we all know, my family doesn't know I have. She friended both him and me, and so after the friending he removed his LJ link from his page, and I removed my blog link from my LJ. That's the closest anyone has come to discovering my blog, and it kind of freaked me out.

Afterwards I friended her fiance, to be nice. It's a move I'm regretting since now it means I get all of the bulletins and messages that he sends to all of his friends. Some of them are crude or inappropriate, and while I'm not easily offended (I wouldn't be able to work where I do if I blushed every time the conversation got a little blue) I'm a little uncomfortable with it because it means my sister is thinking that way too. And I'm not ready for her to be thinking that way.

This also means Mike will get my sister's bulletins, which will freak him out. She's got one of those "What would you do with me?" memes up right now, and I know he won't like that. Mike is easily weirded out that way. Once I showed him a photo of my friend Meghan, who's pregnant, where she was lifting up her shirt to show off her belly. I wanted him to see how her belly button had popped out, but he immediately looked away and said that it was improper to look at my friend's bare stomach. Apparently it was too scandalous. He's going to be traumatized when he receives my sister's, "Would you kiss me? Would you sleep with me?" meme.

So yeah, there's been quite a bit of excitement around here lately. But at least the snow is melting.