Right in front of my building......you guessed it....

ANOTHER CHAIR!!! As I exited my building, I looked left then right and there it was...in the spot where the building puts the garbage and recycling each night. I was thinking, some may wonder where in the world do I live where there is garbage piled nightly on the curb. Garbage collection in the city happens during the night, so every night businesses place their garbage on the curb for pick-up. There are no huge garbage cans like in the suburbs. All the garbage is piled in bags on the edge of the street. During the night a crew of garbage trucks come around and take the bags. In the morning, all of the bags are usually gone and some of the recyclables are left for a later pick-up. Enough about the garbage...but that is why I keep spotting these chairs. From now forward I am going to just post the pic fo these random chairs.

The Forecast was for Snow....

Well, the forecast for this past Sunday Night/Monday Morning was for snow....3-8 inches in the city...right. Well, the storm did pull through. Monday morning the storm was in full force. I bundled up in my coat, boots, hat and scarf and headed to work....remember I walk to work, not from my car to the building. By the time I got to work, I had enough snow stuck to my coat that I looked like a snowman. I shook that off my coat and went into work. I did not leave the building until it was time to go home. I took some pics on my way home of the 'aftermath'.

....and now I am going to take a nap!

The past week was very busy. It started Monday with a crazy project at work. As result, I had a weeks worth of late nights at the office...ugh! On Saturday, Jeremy and I rented a car to go do some shopping and visit Peter and Debbie. When renting a car, you never know exactly what car you will end up with. This time we ended up with a Toyota Prius....a hybrid car. Well, when I got in I had to figure out how to start it up and get it into gear. After a few minutes getting familiar with the car we were off. Driving to the Javier house is not too complicated, but every time, I drive there we get lost, but, we find our way there in the end. Every time we are lost, we see new places we may want to visit in the future...so the extra time it takes to get to the Javiers is not a waste. On the way back to the city, never a problem. Go figure.

Our shopping trip took us to BJ's, like a Costco, and then to the outlet mall, Woodbury Commons. This is a huge outlet mall with sooo many shops. The shops are situated in several different villages...nice concept in warm weather, but in the winter it is sooooo I was on a mission to get some new shoes for work. I was successful! I came home with four pair of new shoes...plus a few more things.

After shopping we went to the Javiers and had a great dinner. After dinner we broke out the Wii-Fit and had a great night of ski jumping, soccer heading and tight rope walking. We headed back to the city about midnight to unload our purchases.

This morning I took the car back to the rental place. The place is a short walk a couple of blocks away. On my walk back home I picked up a bunch of flowers to arrange in some new vases I picked up shopping. This week I chose an assorted bunch and some orchids that remind me of Hawaii. After I arrange and place the flowers, I have to watch the cats, because they seem to like to destroy them.

After I finished with the flowers, I had a 'conference Skype' with Sally, Kids, Dave and Mom. It was a short catch up for all of us.

Finally, I went to the gym and got in a good run and work-out. I am now going to take my long awaited Sunday nap and re-charge for the busy week ahead!

I forgot my camera on my trip yesterday, so I will include some pics I took today of the cats relaxing in the sunshine.....I guess the sunshine will be gone tomorrow, the weather forecast is for SNOW! (secretly, if it is good snow I will like it. If it is the regular crappy snow it might as well not snow)
Bye for now.