Yes, it's snowing.

I woke up this moring and looked at the news. Kouryou-chan's school was closed according to the school district reports, but there was just a light dusting on the ground. Not really the kind of conditions that keep us from going to school.

But I took the school district at their word and went back to bed for an hour. When it was time to wake Kouryou-chan, I looked outside and now it was really coming down. There was an inch on the top of the car and it was still storming down. Kouryou-chan was great waking up, not a problem.

Well, we're snowed in now. I'm making oatmeal right now-- warm, winter food indeed. Later, we're going to take down the Yule tree and then an experiment: oatmeal cookies, half made with standard-cut rolled oats, half made with steel-cut pinhead oats.

Bad, bad news...

Half an hour ago, I took my temperature. 99.4F. Now, 101.4F. I have a bad feeling about this. It's a good thing I have the week off, but great gods, what a crappy time to get sick. I had so many plans, so much to do. I at least got the tree out of here and the living room and hallways cleaned, but that was before the fever hit.

Kouryou-chan and I made oatmeal cookies, but they came out bad. It wasn't the difference in the type of oats-- I got the fat cut poorly, probably because the house is cold, and they came out more like oatmeal crackers than cookies.

We also went out sledding, gently, along the curbside on the flag road we live along. We were outside for about half an hour before Kouryou-chan decided she was too cold and wanted to come inside.

I guess I'm not gonna get the new desk set up tomorrow. I can barely keep my thoughts straight right now.