I has snow!
Jan. 26th, 2011 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalIt would have to happen that we get actual snow here in Northern VA for the first time this winter on the second-busiest week of my whole year! My office closed at 4 today and I still have about 4 days of work to do. I seriously don't know how to get it all done. The roads are so bad that it took me 50 minutes to get home (I work just 5 miles straight down the road). I got home safe and sound, after seeing TONS of people stuck or stopped in the middle of the road. People are driving 5 miles an hour on a 45 miles an hour road and using CD cases and clip boards to clean off their cars at every red stop light. It was crazy. My normal 15 minute drive was 50 minutes long. There's no way to plow the roads because traffic is at a standstill. Cars are just stopped on the road.
And then we get a call from my little sister who, in a move of brilliance, drove her car onto a sidewalk thinking it was a lane. So my parents took MY 4WD car to go get her instead of doing what would be sensible and logical and calling a tow truck. Are they crazy? Yes. So now 3 family members are stuck out there instead of just 1 and I might never see my car again. LOL As she called just when it was time to walk the dog after he ate dinner, I volunteered to walk him. He looooooooves the snow and didn't stop running. He was so excited. But when he came in and I was drying him off, he started growling at me. This is kind of common, as he doesn't like his feet rubbed dry usually. The problem is, he started snapping at me. He lunged at me, snapping, and I jumped away just in time. Luckily, I still had him on the leash so I was able to pull him away and keep him from getting to me. But I would have him sit down and every time I told him (in a calm, authoritative fashion) to lie down, he'd lunge at me, snapping and trying to bite again. This has never happened before in all my years of walking him in the heat, rain, and snow. I don't know WHAT it was. But I finally just gave up and made him sit for, like, 15 minutes. After that, he would lie down for me without snapping and he let me get near enough to take his collar off. It was the weirdest thing, like he'd suddenly gone rabid on me or something. Scared me to death, I'm telling you.
Anyway, I'm having a bad day health-wise on top of all this, and I'm glad to be home where I can freely whimper when pain hits. Yay :-) Just wish the rest of my family were home safe & sound as well. Aaaand it's dark out. This is lovely. I don't suppose this rescue mission is going to go well at all. Especially since my parents just called asking how to turn on my radio; they also ejected the audio book I was earreading on CD and it's one with tracks every 60 seconds so it's going to take FOREVER to figure out where I left off. Grrr. Inconvenient.
And then we get a call from my little sister who, in a move of brilliance, drove her car onto a sidewalk thinking it was a lane. So my parents took MY 4WD car to go get her instead of doing what would be sensible and logical and calling a tow truck. Are they crazy? Yes. So now 3 family members are stuck out there instead of just 1 and I might never see my car again. LOL As she called just when it was time to walk the dog after he ate dinner, I volunteered to walk him. He looooooooves the snow and didn't stop running. He was so excited. But when he came in and I was drying him off, he started growling at me. This is kind of common, as he doesn't like his feet rubbed dry usually. The problem is, he started snapping at me. He lunged at me, snapping, and I jumped away just in time. Luckily, I still had him on the leash so I was able to pull him away and keep him from getting to me. But I would have him sit down and every time I told him (in a calm, authoritative fashion) to lie down, he'd lunge at me, snapping and trying to bite again. This has never happened before in all my years of walking him in the heat, rain, and snow. I don't know WHAT it was. But I finally just gave up and made him sit for, like, 15 minutes. After that, he would lie down for me without snapping and he let me get near enough to take his collar off. It was the weirdest thing, like he'd suddenly gone rabid on me or something. Scared me to death, I'm telling you.
Anyway, I'm having a bad day health-wise on top of all this, and I'm glad to be home where I can freely whimper when pain hits. Yay :-) Just wish the rest of my family were home safe & sound as well. Aaaand it's dark out. This is lovely. I don't suppose this rescue mission is going to go well at all. Especially since my parents just called asking how to turn on my radio; they also ejected the audio book I was earreading on CD and it's one with tracks every 60 seconds so it's going to take FOREVER to figure out where I left off. Grrr. Inconvenient.
