Flannel sheet weather

Today at Target, I took advantage of a sale on flannel sheets. It's bound to be warmer to sleep at Betty's if I have flannel sheets. Yesterday was my niece Elizabeth's sixteenth birthday; on the phone, she asked me to send her some snow. (I'll send her the picture I've used with this blog, which I took from the local news and weather website.) She lives in Louisiana and has never seen much snow.

Esteemed spouse and I have both invested in some long johns. This shows every evidence of being an extraordinary winter with super-cold temperatures and extra-heavy snow. As I had "corrected" a colleague the other day--it's not global warming, exactly--it's global weather disruption. Louisiana gets Katrina, while Michigan gets record-breaking heavy snow and below-zero temperatures.

I can't get over how excited I am about the inauguration of President Barack Obama. I feel excitement and renewal that reminds me of how I felt in my teens and early twenties, when it became clear that we were finally going to exit Viet Nam. Security is super-tight, and it's my fervent hope that nothing will mar this inauguration. If someone were to attempt to harm President Obama, I would want to personally rip that person limb from limb. President Obama represents everything that can be right about this country, and his election gives me tremendous hope that we can undo the harm of the last eight years. There's an old gospel song, "May the Lord Bless You Real Good," that represents how I feel about this incoming administration.

Speaking of deities, my husband (teasingly) believes in the traffic light gods. He says the reason I hit red lights and he hits green lights is that he prays and makes sacrifices to the traffic gods and I don't. I wonder if the Green God and the Red God and the Yellow God rule from Mount Olympus. Which is the most powerful?

I was joking the other day about drivers with frozen brains. Surely only drivers having frozen brains can excuse the abysmal driving that we're seeing. What else would explain drivers changing lanes repeatedly when the roads are covered with ice? That includes one driver who jerked in front of a semi-truck that had only moments before jerked in front of another driver. Frozen brains. People incapable of reason.