What Katie does with a freebie day

I don't know if you've heard or not but the weather kinda ain't great right now. Icepocolypse '11 is moving through Indiana and has practically shut down the city. 

And by shut down, I mean I can't get to McDonald's if I get a sudden hankering for root beer.

It's been a great day at home. Joe didn't go to work. I stayed in my PJs for most of the day. Madeline changed into nine different outfits. Bliss.

Joe got up with Madeline and I slept in until 9 a.m. 

We spent the entire morning watching the funeral service for Officer Moore. I cried my eyes out while knitting.

(I started knitting last week and am now addicted. It might only stick for a few more days or I could be a granny who knits in a rocking chair and makes baby booties for her great-grandkids. Who knows but for now I love it.

I always thought knitting had to be meticulous and required things like math and concentration. But really it's the perfect activity when my brain is being used in difficult ways like viewing "The Bachelor" or "Modern Family." It is so easy and mindless. 

I even thought I would have to read a book on how to knit but instead I learned with You Tube tutorials by The Knit Witch.

Oh Knit Witch, how much you helped me. I totally picture you as Professor McGonagall with knitting needles.)

Anyways, back to today.

My sister-in-law sent two great weather-related pictures which you can't view without wanting to share with everyone you know.

By 2 p.m., I finally decided to change out of my pajamas and take a shower. Honestly, I didn't want to be that productive but I did it out of fear of losing our power and having to show up at my parents as a smelly mess.

Then our neighbor braved the icy street and came over with a plate of warm cranberry and blueberry muffins. We played Scrabble and ate breakfast for dinner. Egg and cheese biscuits, seasoned potato wedges and a bottle of Shiraz.

Apparently I felt like we deserved a lot of carbs due to all the intense knitting cardio I did today.

After she left, I got on Facebook for the first time and read about 477 status updates about the weather and who has power and who doesn't.

Now I'm contemplating giving myself a manicure and pedicure. Or I might just go to bed. Decisions, decisions.

About eleventy million times today, I thought about the early pioneers and how they survived ice storms like this without heat, running water and texting. And about eleventy million times, I wondered how in the world they did it.

But at least Laura Ingalls Wilder could go out in the snow with Pa and collect maple syrup to put on the snow. Do you think it would taste as good with Mrs. Butterworth's?

But they can't bake the world's best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Take that, Ma and Pa.

Everything is closed tomorrow which mean we get to do this again. Hopefully more eyebrow plucking will be involved so I can call it a productive day.