Direct quote from my mother: "I caught up on all your blogs last night and Debby Downer was the funniest thing I've ever read!"

Writing the funniest thing ever read: check.

I am currently at 59 Plateau. So happy to be here. Add that to things that never get old. The first time I enter the door of 59 Plateau. NEVER gets old; I'm always SO happy to enter it. Because I LOVE my family, I LOVE my fireplace, I LOVE not working, and I LOVE my house. But mostly I LOVE my family.

My house has continued to be pimped; I arrived to a very white kitchen. I mentioned earlier that my kitchen was being made over and the kitchen cabinets would be painted white. And painted white they were indeed. And I feel suddenly like I'm in a very magazine-worthy kitchen. Well, not that good, I guess, but it's up there.

I was supposed to have a half-day of school today, which was so very ridiculous to begin with, but it was cancelled. I was on the fence as to how to feel about that. I didn't even get to sport my awesome but ugly sweater at school, complete with my very motherly white turtleneck and wreath earrings. DANGIT. But not I don't feel so bad about not making or buying any of my co-workers anything. Phew. I DID enjoy sleeping in. And Ellen. I think Ellen is Elleneriffic. (Too much...too much...). She just is awesome. She is SO funny and very young-looking to be 50. Did you know she's 50? Whilst I watched Ellen I joined my most awesome roommate in working on our 1000 piece puzzle we started the night before.

That brings me to yesterday. Probably one of the greatest snow days ever. It wasn't so much, technically a snow day, though, because it was Sunday. And church was still on. Amy and I decided that the treacherous weather would NOT keep us from experiencing the last Sunday before church at East Gloucester. We went to church--which was amazing--and then had lunch, read, bundled up and took a long walk down the snowy, quite road of 1A. Our destination was CVS. Mission? Find a puzzle. We got really scared upon entering CVS and looking around for about 2 minutes. We could not believe that CVS would not be carrying a puzzle. We weren't even going in with the expectation that it would be a challenging one. Of course we wanted it to be, but if 100 pieces was all CVS had to offer, then so be it. We looked and looked.

Toy section? No puzzles.
Stationary section? No puzzles.
End of a random aisle? No puzzles.
Candy/decorations? Nope.
Food? Nope.
Medications aisle? Obviously we had a sudden feeling of panic slash urgency.

I was about to ask the teenage worker boy with a little bit of humiliation where they carried their jigsaw puzzles (how embarassing; I should be doing something cooler on a snow day like jammin' or watching TV or reading or SOMETHING other than doing what grandmas do best) when HARK!!! I saw a small box camoflauged by the random "AS SEEN ON TV!" boxes surrounding it. You know what I mean, all those machines and knick knacks and doo dads that no one would ever think up but then when you see them you wonder why you didn't think of that idea first. And then you think about it more and realize life would NOT be any better with it in your life. For example: a remote control that is the Goliath of all remote controls. It would kick my normal-sized remote control any day (why didn't I think of that?...oh yeah because it's completely ridiculous).

So anyway, although there were only 3 puzzles to choose from we were like kids in a candy store when we found those puzzles. It was actually more like we were kids in an abandoned candy store with 3 lonesome smarties up for grabs. But still, kids in a candy store is my point. We were psyched. But of course, I played it cool, real cool, when I went up to buy the jigsaw puzzle, as if I were picking this up for my 10-year-old sister (that I don't have) or my aging grandmother who can't move much so keeps herself occupied in these priceless ways (also...don't have). I definitely didn't act like I felt: giddy, relieved, anxious to start, let's say it together, "like a kid in a candy store."

So we trudged back down Wenham's Main Street and set up puzzle room for the night. We brought the kitchen table into the living room, we figured out which GEMS would be showing on Falalala Lifetime, made some hot chocolate, and dove in.

Six hours later we had watched 3 Falalala Lifetime glories and had jigsawed approximately 800 pieces. And had consumed chips, ice cream, hot chocolate, and a little salad to balance it out :)

Snow day (but-not-really-because-it-was-Sunday) perfection.