Day 17 - I'm going to try to keep track of the days in the year and not count the parties, although I am at around 4 or 5 depending on how we are counting them. It's been an interesting and unexpected holiday week. Not really a holiday, rather, an entire week of housebound in the snow. A rare and unusual issue for Atlantans, the city shuts down with a few inches of snow. Northerners don't seem to understand this, but the big issue is the ice. The 5-6" of snow we got was topped off by .25-.5" of ice, compress this on the interstates/surface streets/driveways and we aren't going anywhere. Sure, "why don't you have more snow plows?" came up a few times this week, but seriously, why would we have a bunch of snow plows? The last time it snowed this much was 1993 (some of you may remember this as the famous yet disastrous Alabama visit). So, we hunker down until it is safe, turns out that was just over 5 days. Crazy.

Despite the "snowpocalypse" I was able to venture out, fortunately I have some great neighbors who were also getting a little stir crazy. I made it out to do some sledding on Tuesday afternoon. It was a great experience. My parents chuckled as their "near 40" daughter reels in excitement over sledding, but then they realized, growing up in Florida does not offer one many chances to sled. They were more surprised to find out that I called out to sled by some of my 50+ aged neighbors.

Whizzing all the way down 8th Street was exhilarating and much easier than I thought. No injuries to report, although I did hurt myself later that night playing video games (Wii and the PS3 Move and the like aren't really mean for us elderly people). So, party 3 or so for me was a group of neighbors getting together, playing video games, remarking about the crazy weather and drinking way to much tequila (but we did make plans to go out Friday night). Kaleidoscope is a new restaurant in our neighborhood which did quite a bit of business during the "situation on the streets."

Wine tasting Tuesday night, Bunco Wednesday night, it's gearing up to be a big week already. No more saying no to fun activities during the week, just moderation on tequila.