Christmas Eve
I’m still not done shopping and there’s a mountain of snow out there. Yesterday, I was so overwhelmed with the scrum and the hostility and the lines that I called it done around 6pm and headed home, where I sat on the couch with Kate and watched TV and ate a frozen pizza.
Today, I’ll be cleaning house for a couple hours and then heading back out to face the Slobbering Hordes of Consumerism™. I can’t help but think of Jules Winnfield, when he said, “We should have shotguns for this kind of deal.”
Tonight, we brave the roads to go to my parents’ place, which is fortunately only about 20 miles away. Tomorrow, we brave the roads to drive up to Cloquet (130+ miles). Fortunately, we don’t come back until Sunday morning. Unfortunately, it’s supposed to keep snowing through Sunday.
Sunday night, Christmas at my mom’s place.
Dude, I drive through Cloquet every Thursday. You’ve got clear interstate the whole way, no twisty back roads, nuthin’. Piece of cake.
@Archer
Alas, I was wrong. I’ll be driving to Virginia, MN, which is further and requires the use of Highway 53. However, it seems they didn’t get nearly as much snow as we did down here.