The Endless Winter

That little furry b****** was right, winter wasn’t over. Always trust the groundhog.

So the state of Texas was crippled. It’s just not equipped for this cold with this much ice for this duration of time. It was bad. They closed the university for the week. That’s never happened. Ice was on the road over a week. Power out at my house for 2 days. No water elsewhere in town. All under a boil notice. Just a bad scene. I could handle the house temps being in the 40s. We built a fire and if we needed a good thaw out my car worked well as a warming station. Bekah and I brought drinks and snacks to my car and made a little date night. Very high school of us. You have to make the most out of every situation. I will say that Tuesday when she went to work and I was alone without power I did get bored. Just the absolute silence of it.

Power was restored for us on Wednesday morning. Still no cable or internet. And the water was bad. Was to remain bad through the weekend. At least I had a trickle and could flush my toilets. My mother had nothing. She was melting snow. And she had 6 stranded guest in her house. What a mess.

Our state got a lot of laughs over our response to the weather. People are dying here and the response is to laugh? Humanity at its finest.

Friday morning rolled around and for bulls*** reasons I was needed at work from 9-1. It was a waste of f***ing time. I’ve been snowed in all week and suddenly Friday I’m expected to just be a warm body at work for 4 hours. Waste of my time indeed. My boss wanted me to stay longer. He wouldn’t let me leave. F***!!!

All in all, it was a f***ing adventure.

Jalapeño

For a cold weekend it was pot roast. I can stretch this into a couple meals. For the first, traditional w/ the ideal sides to accompany.