Weekend Plans Post: The Christmas Bomb Cyclone

A couple of days ago, it was in the 40’s around here. Now, granted, that’s not exactly *BALMY*, but you can do stuff like “take the bin to the curb” without having to put a jacket on first. If you’re wearing a flannel shirt, you might not need to put on a jacket to go to the store.

Well, overnight, we got The Bomb Cyclone:

Watch as the cold front moved through downtown #Denver. Timelapse from ~4:15-4:35pm this afternoon:#9wx #COwx pic.twitter.com/FpIMdef9uR

— Chris Bianchi (@BianchiWeather) December 22, 2022

That’s positively *NUTS*. I know that we are at -12 right now and, two days ago, we weren’t.

Luckily, we have a duvet. Maribou got it for me a decade or so ago. It’s a king-sized one and it has a denim cover. It weighs about as much as a small car. We transferred it from the very top of the corner where it’s stored to the bed last night and, lemme tell ya, that was freakin’ awesome. I woke up a little a couple of times because I had trouble rolling over and my brain told me to wake up a little in order to give a little more roll-over power but, seriously, it was worth it.

The duvet will probably have to go back once the weather stabilizes again and nights are merely cold and no longer Fuh-huh-REEEEEEZ-ing (despite the fact that the temperature in the house is more or less the same under both circumstances) but I am pleased to be in the middle of duvet weather again even if it is right before Christmas.

Though I do prefer the big fluffy flakes that you see in the trailers to Hallmark Christmas movies to the sandy gritty snow you get during an bomb cyclone… but you can’t have everything.

Speaking of which, it’s Christmas weekend! How did *THAT* happen? I finished up the last piece of work at around 6:30 tonight and made sure that there were no new emails in the email box and turned in my timesheet and rebooted my boxes and HOLY COW I DON’T HAVE TO WORK AGAIN UNTIL NEXT YEAR.

Saturday Night, we’re going over to Mom’s with a DVD of Muppet Christmas Carol (last year we watched Albert Finney’s “Scrooge”) and we’re going to have roast beast and talk about memories but only the nice ones.

Sunday Afternoon, we’re going over to the sister’s with Uno Flip and some presents for the nephews and some ice cream from Cold Stone and an agreement that we’re going to leave as soon as we need to But Not Before.

And hoping that we have a Merry Christmas and hoping that you have one too.

(Featured Image is “Silly Pretzel”. Photo taken by Maribou.)