Snow Days

As you could figure out, if you were interested, I am writing from Charleston, SC. Chuck-town is an amazing place filled with manners, southern hospitality, shrimp and grits and after last night... SNOW. It hasn't snow here, I mean real snow, in over 11 years and it was 11 years before that when it had happened before. I'm a true Florida girl and have never experienced something like this. 

Friday night is movie night with my SC-BFF. It is just a night to watch chick flicks, drink wine, and just BE. I don't know if I had ever realized this was an imperative phenomenon. But it is! So like any Friday night, when there are no cheer coach responsibilities, Kristy and I are down for a flick. Last night was at her humble abode which meant I was given the task of driving in the snow for the first time. Dodging the snow flurries from inside my windshield was... weird.  It had just begun to accumulate, but was already pretty. 

After the "A-Okay" flick Love Happens, I experienced, for the first time, brushing snow off my car. While taking part in this yankee ritual, I took a brief glance down the cul-de-sac and was instantly blown away by the breath taking beauty. The clean, pure, calmness of a blanket of white was before me. The snow was still coming down glistening in the street lights, but I have never seen anything this awe-inspiring before. Driving home gave me a new love for this wonderful town. I took fat-dog and kitty out in the snow, took pictures, and tried to catch flakes.

  

Hubby assured me it would stop soon, but fat-dog woke me up at 7am today and the amount of snow had doubled.  I can only describe the the calm and new found appreciation of winter to that which Parents describe when watching their normally hyper, romping, sugar filled little loves...SLEEPING. It is just nice. Of course like any other day, the world wakes up and we have to get things done. Headed to the gym for an empty class of Tred-n-shed but it resulted with hitting the 200 mile mark for the year. This is 50 miles shy of the amount I ran for the entire year of  2009. So I'm pretty stoked. However, I am 17 miles behind where I should be for my goal. So I'll try for a repeat performance this evening for a 5-7 miler. Slowly, I will make them up, but I realize that I have many, many "miles to go before I sleep."