Go Colts!

So in the past 24 hours, we've gotten approximately 7 - 8 inches of snow in our neck of the woods.  I'm so glad I got off my ass and went grocery shopping on Thursday because I can stay in my burrow & hibernate until spring.

We stayed in last night & played a couple of games on the 360; Magic: The Gathering, Lego Rock Band, & Fable II.  The two player experience for Fable II was kind of crappy because it's still from a one player perspective & the second player has to be a henchman & they don't get to participate in the story.  It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't such a story driven game.  Less talking and more fighting!

This morning, Aaron & I were watching cartoons with the boys & we were greeted to the sound of something mechanical in our driveway.  I looked out the window, hoping it wasn't mechagodzilla or something equally destructive.  Thankfully, it was just my neighbor clearing our driveway with his snow blower.  Mr. Gary gets an A for awesome in my book.

Aaron decided to get up at this point and head outside to clear off my car & scrape off the rest of the snow out of the driveway.  I bundled the boys up & sent them outside with daddy so that I could take my shower.  Mr. Gary asked Aaron to run some errands with him, so Aaron took the boys with them so that I could clean the house & take my shower.  He also picked up my prescription because I didn't get a chance to pick it up before the snow started.

No big plans for tomorrow.  We're going to stay in and watch the super bowl at home.  Xander is pretty excited about our super bowl "party".  I bought some blue & white balloons, blue & white crepe paper, & lots of good snacky type foods that they normally don't get to eat (blue jello!).  I had initially invited a friend & his family over but Xander isn't feeling very well & I'm not sure if he's contagious.  He's been complaining about his ears hurting since yesterday and he's running a fever. 

I finished The Two Swords, book 3 of The Hunter's Blade trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.  I like how Salvatore left things on a "down note".  The orc army is still on the doorstep of the dwarven kingdom and there was lots of death & mayhem.  I still think that he needs to kill off one or more of his main characters and get some "fresh blood" into the story.  My vote would be for Wulfgar, Drizzt, and/or Cattie-brie.  Salvatore is known for his descriptive sword-play and he doesn't leave any of that out in this book.  I, for one, do not need a blow-by-blow description of each and every battle.  I don't know what the fancy terms mean so I can't picture them properly in my head and I usually skim over those paragraphs.  Salvatore wraps up the trilogy nicely while still leaving the Drizzt series open-ended, paving the way for another series of books, entitled Transitions.  I've put a request in at my local library for book one of the trilogy.