Faye wishing all that snow would just go away already

I have learned a few things about blizzards and working from home this winter, as well…we have had one every week for over a month. Here are my snow day guidelines:

• Do make sure you have the necessities on hand. If any of the following run out, I have a panic attack: apples, tea, movies and what I like to call “legal candy” i.e. dried fruit, crystallized ginger and other sweet treats that are NOT candy and therefore I may eat them without guilt that I am a sugar junky.
• Do break some of the rules on snow days…such as having movies on in the studio during daytime hours.
• Don’t let being cooped up get the best of you. Cabin fever is not a made up concept (hello, did you not see The Shining?) and you need to make sure you at least talk to other people on the phone.
• Do bribe yourself to not become a sloth. If you do an exercise video during the day, you can put jammies back on after you shower.
• Do shovel often. Do not think the snow and ice that has accumulated will just go away. A wooden stairway quickly becomes a luge run and will take much more effort to make them safe a week later than if you just did it as it snowed.
• Don’t drive from Baltimore, MD to Millbrook, NY in a blizzard. It will take you a looong time and be so stressful that you will get a cold after wards.
• Do make sure that on non snow days, you get the heck out of your studio for a few hours...you’ll feel amazingly refreshed by the time the next blizzard hits...you know, three days later.
• Do realize that if you have a dog that they too are cooped up…try to engage them in a bit of indoor activity so their boredom does not backfire and result in the chewing of your favorite possessions.
• Don’t forget that when you go outside its not ok to forget to wear boots, hats, gloves and perhaps a blanket to prevent freezing to death.
• Don’t put off cleaning the snow from you car and the space behind it until you need to be somewhere right now. It will not happen.

Stay warm my pretties, here in the Northeast we’re due for more snow...Saturday…and Tuesday and Wednesday…