First Snow

We're having the first flurries of the season because of this nor'easter. Right now it doesn't look like it's gonna accumulate coz it melts as soon as it hits. Let's just hope it stays that way.

Update: Guess I was wrong. Snow is starting to accumulate, and forecast says to expect maybe up to 2 inches. As long as it's only that and not more.

Vote 2012

Getting gas

No, not intestinal gas but gasoline for the car =P There are only very few gas stations open and lucky for us, there's one close by and the line was short. We only waited 32 minutes (^_^) Believe me, that was short. Most gas stations have lines that are miles long and the wait would be hours! There's also a limit of $40/vehicle or 2 cans/person. Gov. Christie also put in effect the odd/even scheme so if the last number on your license is odd, you can only fill up on odd days and if it's even like us, fill up on even days (today is the 4th - even). It's a good plan so that stations aren't flooded with cars.

I hope other stations get their supplies soon and good luck to those in line for gas.

Vet

Time for a check-up and a few shots for Raven. She is now 81 lbs! Oh boy, and it's getting harder for Jojo to carry her into the car. She doesn't want to jump in the back, doesn't really like car rides I guess. But the stairs or ramps that you can buy are so expensive! Jojo will just have to deal with it :P

Half & Half

Half 1: I went to the gym this morning and attended the half & half class - half kickboxing and resistance training. We also used the step and did core exercises too so I hope that my muscles won't complain too much =P

Half 2: School resumes on Monday and for Thurs. and Fri. they were supposed to have no classes because of the teacher's convention. The school super called earlier to say that they cancelled the convention so that the kids can have class instead to make up for the 2 extra days missed this week. But that means they still don't have any extra emergency days left. If they get snow days in winter, they'd either shave days off from spring break or extend the school days in summer :( Oh well.

Photo Blog

I've revived my photoblog 'Larawan' as you can see from the link above. I'll do my best to take a photo a day but since I'm updating thru my phone, they will be phone photos. Check it out!

Sandy week

School is now suspended for the rest of the week and Jojo will be working from home as well the whole week. The problem with school is, they only have 3 emergency days allotted so since they've used it up already plus 2 more days for the week, that means their spring break will probably be 2 days shorter. Let's hope there won't be emergency snow days in winter, otherwise they might not have spring break at all :(

Sandy Day 2

We lost power around 10:30 last night and only now - 3:43pm - was it restored. School called to say it's still suspended tomorrow. Not sure about Jojo's work. He couldn't work from home today coz we didn't have power. If the trains are still suspended tomorrow then he needs to WFH again.

Good thing our stove top is gas and not electric coils so we were able to cook. For the first time in years I had to cook rice manually! Thank goodness it didn't burn =P we were also able to boil water for Jojo's coffee.

So what did we do today? Games! We played sungka, chess, checkers and air hockey. We also had some reading done.

Thankfully nothing bad happened in our neighborhood, the house is intact, everything in the backyard is secure. Raven didn't mind the storm one bit :)

So that's our frankenstorm experience. I hope the others affected by the storm are coping well.