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another pretty busy week here. i ended up closing the store early last weekend on the day i'd switched shifts. this next paycheck will pay for those two snow days getting cut short. but i just checked my bank account and saw i got my taxes back today. i haven't seen that much money in there in a long time. probably since last year's taxes. puts a smile on my face. i was pretty happy on my day off monday when i got gareth to go to the park with me at sunset. we met some nice birds and saw some pretty scenes. we went to the byrd after and saw the fantastic mr fox. gareth had already seen it but he said it was even better the second time. it looked really neat and made me smile. i've been waiting to get the informant at our store all week but it hasn't come. hopefully we'll get it this weekend and i'll get to see it before it comes out next week. gareth went to see wolfman last night. he starts the prescreenings next week. i'm excited for him. we had another snow storm here. this time it was mid-week. i'd barely been aware of it since it was only supposed to be a few inches. but i opened the morning it hit and was faced with the worst road conditions i've had to drive in so far. i got on the interstate since it had been the most cleared on other days and watced a truck spin out in front of me. scary stuff. i made it there safe though and got a call from my manager who sounded surprised. she was told we could open the store late because of the horrible weather. but i opened on time. the thing that made this storm so bad was the wind. it was like a blizzard when it was snowing then still looked like it was snowing with the wind whipping what was fallen all around. it's supposed to snow a little again tonight into tomorrow morning. i'm opening so i hope it's not another crazy little storm. we're all pretty tired of this now. i haven't made it out to the barn in the past two weeks. partly due to the snow and partly due to my new schedule. i hope i can get back on board with that. i'm working on valentine's day sunday and we don't usually do much anyways but we're going to go out to dinner tonight to celebrate. i'll take any excuse for that.