I'm dreaming...

of a white Christmas... Irving Berlin's musical is playing in my head. That had to be one of my most favorite musicals that Nathan and I ever went to. Plus, you get to sing at the end! You're not supposed to hum and sing along with the musicals at the 5th Avenue Theatre. They write that in the programs. Apparently it's distracting to the other viewers. Didn't seem to bother anyone at the Sound of Music. Yeah, I just couldn't watch without singing along... An elbow to the side now and then didn't stop me either.
Anway, since I've been thinking of the musical and the song I've put some thought into whether I really want a white Christmas. The jury's still out though. Oh well.
No big exciting events this week, except for the snow. But it wasn't Emma's first snow. It snowed the first two days of her life. SNOW IN APRIL! God really wanted her birthday to be a great day. :-) Snow is my favorite. Except when it leaves me stranded someplace. I have noticed though, that Eugenians (hhhmmm... that's interesting) don't really know how to deal with the snow and they all just sort of become hermits and hide in their houses til the snow melts. Today, since most of the snow/ice on the roads is gone, people were out and about, but Monday and Tuesday were very quiet days. They even cancelled school on Tuesday because of the icy roads. Shoot, in Seattle, you get a two hour delay for that. They cancel school when there's a foot or two on the ground. Or when snow is apparently forecast for the afternoon as it was today. Bold move by the school districts if you ask me... What if there was no snow?
We got a gate for the bottom of the stairs. My grandparents and aunt and uncle got us gates for both the top and the bottom, but the top gate isn't in yet. I had a pleasant experience picking the gate up at Walmart. See, my aunt and I discovered that it's free shipping if it's shipped to the store... SO... I get the email that one of the gates is in, I go to pick it up and there's this big sign behind the computers that says, "if you're here for site to store pickup, please use the touch screen for assistance"... There's nothing that looks like a touch screen there. Just two debit/credit type things, like when you're checking out at the store. Finally I notice a paper next to one of them that says to use the touch screen and happen to notice that one of the debit machines says, "if you need assistance, touch the enter button". So I pushed it. It took awhile for it to change from "finding an associate to assist you" to "an associate will be with you momentarily", except that nobody came. Finally, about five minutes later a lady walking out of the break room asked if I'd been assisted, to which I responded, "nope". So she walks back toward the door to find someone, kindly informing the man who's busily walking out of the door that she'd help me but "she's on lunch". All I hear him saying is, "I will get you five cashiers right away!" and some mumbled stuff. He came back a minute later and fumbled around with the computer til he figured out how to find what I came for. I would have complained a little about the lack of response when I used there dumb "touch screen", but I decided that it's Christmas and that they were obviously swamped with people. It did take me a couple loops around the parking lot to find a spot after all.
Yes, that is right. You read correctly. I bit my tongue. Hard to believe that I didn't make a rude or sarcastic comment about their service... isn't it? Christmas-time puts me in a slightly more patient mood with most. Except the dumb people that drive down here. But I won't get started on them. OH! I did almost attack these people that decided to sled down the hill outside our apartment at 10:00 last night! They had this ginormo rubbermaid tub that they kept throwing on the ground and it made this loud thud that caught me off guard and scared me everytime and on top of that, they were like yelling and shouting at each other! I hope they're thanking their lucky stars I didn't call the cops on them. Probably not. Maybe my neighbor went out and told them off. She'd do it. She told me she chewed some neighbor kids out once cuz they were shooting pellet guns at a metal sign at 11:00 at night once and that she could hear it through the baby monitor. See, now I would have called the police and said there were kids behind my apartment with guns. :-) Stupid kids... Would have been HILARIOUS to see them wet their pants though huh? Cops showing up with guns drawn...
Hhhhmmm. I may have some issues. Ah, admit it - you think it'd be funny. It's okay, you can wait til after Christmas, when it's okay to be mean and sarcastic to people again, before you admit it. Really? Not so funny? Well... Nathan would laugh.