I feel like there's an update on everyone's favorite unfrozen caveman designer in the near future. A lot has happened in the past few months. For instance, did I mention we have a new employee here at Where I Work, Inc.? And that it's a lady-type? Well, there is and she is. There was some lively discussion a few years ago as to whether Joe would shy away from blurting out such nuggets as "suck me off" and "everyone wants to lick me" if we ever got a female mixed back into the previously all-male staff, and if he didn't, whether it would driver her away screaming into the night. I have the answers to those questions and more, including what this is all about.
But first, I want to talk about the weather. Back in January, the trees in the public garden started blooming because it was so unseasonably warm. It didn't finally get cold until around the end of January or the first week of February. And when it did get cold, it got really cold. Fast.
Despite the cold, or perhaps because of it, we haven't gotten very much snow. I don't think we got more than three inches total all winter. But those three inches we did get, they came on Valentine's Day, and they mixed with rain to create a nice, horrible slush.
Being the hopeless romantic that I am, I had made plans for a special dinner at a classy restaurant that night. Actually, they were for the 15th, since the restaurant was already booked for Valentines Day back in early January when I made the reservations. For weeks, the weather was perfect, if a little cold, until the night before our fancy romantic dinner. The place is just a few blocks away from my work, but the idea of walking through all that wet, frozen slush in our best clothes sort of killed the mood. A lot of people had to cancel their fancy romantic dinner plans, too. It was disappointing, but a called and asked to reschedule so it was no big deal.
Brianna had her February vacation the following week and came in to work with me for the whole week, so I rescheduled the dinner for the next Friday, today. Every day between Valentine's Day and today has been fairly pleasant. We may have gotten another quarter inch of snow, but we've had a string of nice, sunny days. Especially this week. Until today. All the weather reports this week had the chances for heavy rain and/or snow for today at 100%. I was hoping and praying that they were wrong; it certainly wouldn't be the first time, but a peak out the window this morning proved otherwise.
Surprise! Rain. And lots of it. Stupid freaking weather. Whatever. I'm actually about to slush over to the restaurant right now, so I'll let you know how it turns out.
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