Perspective

I am in a house with 2 guys and no TV until after Christmas. The DVR receiver is history, DirecTV was rolling out software upgrades to fix a known issue and ours... fried as a result.

Kieran's taking it pretty well, although we were initially thinking of the 2 shows that he could take or leave for several days at a time. It wasn't until he came up to me with the saddest face ever and asked, "Can we still watch Wheel of Fortune, Mama?" that I realized the extent of the situation. Even then he took it in stride, but I felt awful. We'll check out the online game when it normally airs and see how that goes.

But hey, we have power. We have heat. We have a house not violated by trees. We don't have carbon monoxide poisoning. Life is awesome!

The real snowpocalypse

Email from my aunt in Colorado:

We are fine. Should be worse tonight, then maybe better by Thursday afternoon. Snow plow got stuck in front of the house today....slid and skid and spun for about 5 minutes before it got going. It is intense. We are safe and warm. Love to you!

Their best friends in CA couldn't fly out today to join them for Christmas :( All are very disappointed but thankful they didn't get rerouted inflight to who knows where since Denver is closed for the foreseeable future.