School was canceled for today in anticipation of the storm that never happened. It started out as a 2 hour late arrival so the kids slept in and I went to work. I get a call from Devan standing at the bus stop waiting - and he asks if I'm sure there is school because he's been there for a while and there's nobody else there plus the bus hasn't come yet. And he's freezing because he forgot his coat! I log onto the news and see that school was cancelled. ;) So he heads back to the apartment and Jordan see's him. She is heading to her bus and her mind starts racing..."oh great Devan missed the bus! Now what, what is he going to do? How is he going to get to school? Mom's not gonna be happy! Oh crap!" When he gets close enough he tells her that school is cancelled. Now they both have to trudge back up the hill and curse my name for making them get out of bed and ready for school when they didn't have it! It never did freeze yesterday but any reason to cancel school is a good one right?!
The freeze didn't happen at all. Okay, some places did, but it actually warmed up a little last night so wherever there was ice from the previous night got a repreve. The wind was horrible with pounding rain so I think it the news should have given it a catchy name like "Tornado Warning" rather than "Snow Watch." If it is wet tonight it will freeze because we are expecting temps of around 20 with a few snow flurries this afternoon. It's colder today than yesterday. They are wacked down here. The thought of snow or ice sends them into ultra PANIC mode! No, seriously, there will not be bread or milk in the supermarkets kind of panic. It's crazy.
I made it through my first payroll cycle. So far none of the errors were directly my fault and only one so far is because of us on this end. They do paycards here which is cool so each site can pay an employee immediately. The paycards are like debit cards that we fund with their pay so they can get their money the same day. They mostly use these cards to pay out funds immediately but some people have the cards instead of a bank account. Next week I am flying solo so all the confidence I have now will be squashed like a pesky ant.
I did't win the battle of Jordan joining the track team. By the time we heard back from the track coach about practices/workouts she had missed a week of practices and didn't want to start after everyone else. She is signed up for spring soccer and is going to take a referee class so she can hopefully ref this spring if not then definitely summer and fall.
Not much else going on. I am going out with the group after work tonight to celebrate one of the ladies leaving. This time I know where I am going plus it was immediately established that I was not allowed to follow the girl I tried to follow last time.
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Wow...sounds a lot like Portland! Lisa was more than upset when they cancelled school for her kids on Monday for a storm that wasn't really bad, then they had a 2 hour delay on Tuesday, and THEN, they cancelled school for Jack only...not the twins! Oh man...what a mess. We hardly had any snow!! People panic way too much. Maybe everyone should live in Wyoming for a winter and then they will see how it's done! Hahahahaa!
Hope you had a good time out with the girls! Miss ya!
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