snow, shovels and recovered reminders

today i woke up way early and took on the task of braving the early cold weather to get to my mom's house to shovel her drive. she is on her own this week. now shoveling snow is actually one of my most favorite things(REALLY, it IS!)...but on sunday jess and i thought it would be a good idea to jumpstart our exercise life, and i decided to do so by doing stairs. not an exercise machine, but the stairs of our apartment. oh, and our apartment is 19 stories high. ummm...and i went up and down 4 and a half times.

[^actual polaroid of our apartment^]


30 minutes of torture. self induced or not, i have been regretting it ever since i woke up monday morning.

now back to today. bright eyed and bushy tailed, i got to my mothers, and shoveled and shoveled and push snow until my calves could feel pain again. which all in all isn't a big deal, especially since my mom made me a breakfast afterwards too!
while i was there i also was able to locate a missing necklace i had made jess.


i made this for jess about a year and a half ago. and she wears it everyday, but for a few weeks she was necklace -less.

so yaaay! for snow, and for a abnormally large accumulation. so much so that our governor has declared a state of emergency in 17 counties because of cost to clear it. well it sure beats a tornado or a earth quake. yaaay! for finding things that are worth more there weight in gold. worth far more than money. silly beautiful things that mean the world to us. like love, like care, like hope. like a necklace from a nine volt battery. yaay! for the tangibles made more beautiful because of the intangibles.

tomorrow night brings the best pizza in the world. al's! whoa warrenviile!