Uhhhhhh......????

So, I know it's late (1:40 am, to be exact) but I KNOW I didn't hear this wrong. I'm in our home office, trying to wrap things up online before hitting the sack, and I've got television on in the background. I believe it's an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" (no mistaking Mariska Hargitay's voice). Anyway, I just heard her confront a woman with the words, "He's cheating on you...with his own daughter." Yeah, I think that's fodder only for L&O:SVU. You just wouldn't hear Sam Waterston saying things like that on the original L&O. And I know that 'cause he answered my question, so we're like that now (BFFs).

Yesterday evening, after coming home from work 3 hours early, I started shovelling the 4 inches of snow that had accumulated on my driveway in the 4 hours that I'd been at work. An inch an hour. Once again, my neighbor was nowhere to be seen. I was more than halfway done when he runs out of this house, zipping up his jacket in the process, and yells, "You need to beat on my door!" I just smiled, but my internal monologue was saying "Why do I need to come get you to shovel our joint driveway??? Take some initiative, Buster!" Then he started shovelling and, while puffing up a cigarette only feet from me, started making inane comments about how he was happy to help me shovel since I'm pregnant, but of course he wasn't helping me shovel because of course, it's his responsibility to shovel, too. Oh, and how he was glad to see that the two of us cared about the state of our property when so few others do; I just looked at him quizzically, since I knew that he wouldn't have stepped one toe in that snow if he hadn't heard me laboring away beneath his window. I asked him to shovel another part of the driveway, away from me, because I couldn't be around his cigarette. He got embarassed right away (I felt bad about that) then apologized and mumbled, "I should've thought of that".
I replied, trying to help him out, "Well, you're not pregnant, why would you think of it?" He just shrugged and looked sheepish and we shovelled on. The driveway has been nice and clear for a whole day and it's been great. Tonight, Old Man Winter is dumping another 2-4 inches of snow on us. Yup, it's been great.

I just got off of a Skype call with a good friend who lives in Mongolia. Ann, it was SO good to speak to you tonight. Isn't technology (sometimes) great??? I kept thinking the entire time how unreal it was that we were looking at each other and talking for FREE when we are literally halfway around the world from each other. Sometimes technology really does win.

Adam comes in tomorrow evening and I couldn't be more excited. I spent all day today cleaning the house, doing the laundry and buying last-minute groceries before the snow hit. Just have to get the Chanukkah (tomorrow is the first night) and Christmas decor out so things are at least somewhat decorated by the time he comes home. If you don't hear from me in a few days, you'll, uh, know why. :-) <---very happy grin!

So Mariska has now confronted the man in question. I heard her say, "How could you? She's your daughter!" Man-in-question responded, "But I never saw her that way; she was always a full-grown woman to me..." Uhhhhh...hmm...yeah. G'night, folks.