You know it's been a bad blizzard when . . .

We usually get a couple good (bad?) blizzards a winter, but there are some that are doozies.  We have been stuck at home for 5 days now and we're going just a wee bit stir crazy.  For those who have never experienced it -  here are the signs.

YOU KNOW IT'S BEEN A BAD BLIZZARD WHEN:

- All the roads are closed - in the entire state
- Even the home schoolers take a snow day - or two
- The drifts are higher than the my six foot tall husband - really
- When you shovel the sidewalk and the cats walk on it, they look like they are little rats in a deep tunnel-like maze with the walls made of snow
- All sporting events get postponed - in the entire state
- You now know what the astronauts felt like when landing on the moon
- There is no mail delivery and no newspaper delivery - for days
- You can almost sled off the garage - and yes, it's been tried
- Doing the laundry is fun, just because it's something to do (ok, maybe that's going a bit far)
- You can barely see the weather vane in the middle of the yard
- Your non-reading husband starts the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - and then quotes from it
- The only way to get to town would be on snowshoes (or a snowmobile) - if it was running. . .
- But you would have no reason to go to town because everything's closed - even Friday night Bingo at the Catholic church
- You go out to feed the cats and you come back with frost on your lashes and an icicle hanging from your nose - literally
- You almost could get lost going out to the garage to feed the cats because you can't see a thing in front of you
- It has to be a weekend - cause we all know that blizzards only happen on the weekends - never on a weekday - ever
- You can barely make out the trees in your front yard
- 'White out' takes on a whole new meaning
- You watch 5 episodes of Psych, 2 Cary Grant movies, play 6 hands of the Golf game and 4 games of Clue,  learn all the words to Beckah Shae's song 'Life', you almost start to like rap because you listen to Lecrae over and over and over (ad nauseam),  and break out the yo yo's - just to pass the time
- You eat every kinds of food and drink known to man including cereal, sandwiches, hot apple cider, hot chocolate, buckets and buckets and buckets of popcorn, bags of chips, pounds of nut mix, baby carrots and massive amounts of fruit - all - day - long
- You look online for pictures of the beaches in Bali and sigh
- You look out the window in the morning and you can't see out because the snow is piled half way up on the window sill
- You look up at the ceiling and yell 'WHY' to all your ancestors who settled here
- Your energetic boys go outside to play and come back inside in 20 minutes half frozen
- You wonder if this isn't the end times - you know - when 'the sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shinning'  cause you haven't seen any of them for days - and days - and days
- The sidewalk you shoveled the day before has been completely covered over with snow and has drifted in higher than it was before you shoveled the first time
- You wear the same clothes every - single - day  (I know!)
- You have to dig and dig to find the wood pile
- You get on each other's nerves by day two
- You can not wait for Monday