It wouldn't be spring in the Front Range without insane weather patterns

Friday: sunny and 78 degrees.

Saturday: sunny and 75 degrees.

Sunday: snowing and 22 degrees….

Welcome to spring in the High Plains?

The Husband and I took our new travel trailer for a test run this weekend, and went camping down at Cherry Creek State Park just south of Aurora, Colo. (Or, more accurately, the campground is actually nestled within the city, which was… a new experience for us. Our campground back in Washington was 30 miles north of nowhere!)

There's snow in them there clouds...

It was a lovely, albeit quick, trip, and we made many, many camping and road trip plans for the coming spring and summer months! We did, however, get snowed out on Sunday, so our weekend was cut short. Thank goodness we left when we did, because we hit a perfect break in the weather that made it (at least slightly) less hairy getting back to Cheyenne.

And I have to say, I felt sorry for the poor saps in their tents… been there, done that, it sucks when the weather turns on you and all that is between you and Mother Nature's fury is a thin wall of polyurethane-coated fabric!

My day thus far has consisted of massive loads of laundry; getting the trailer linens and dishes cleaned and squared away; paying bills; and other general housewifery items.

I had planned on making a grocery run as well, but yesterday's stupid snow fall and subsequent deep freeze put a damper on that, on account of the ice rinks we call roads. I'll get to it tomorrow, since it'll be the only nice day this week!

I also need to attend to that whole pesky school thing. Spring quarter starts today.

Blergh.

BUT!!!!! FINAL QUARTER!!!!!

I've thus far managed to avoid any and all school work today. Because what better way to kick off my last quarter than through intense procrastination, amiright?!?

Lucky it's a super light week. (And one of my only light weeks all quarter… le sigh…)

I'll get it done. I always do. I just have to put my house back together first. Because as it turns out, while RV camping is in many ways much easier and more convenient than tent camping, there's one thing they don't tell you. Your house still ends up looking like a bomb went off in it when you get back!

Is there anything better than a campfire?

Welcome to February in Wyoming?

Um.

Yeah.

This was what I woke up to this morning. And don't let the -22 fool you. With the windchill factor, it was actually -34!

Baby, it's cold outside

So in case you missed it, a huge chunk of the U.S. has been hit by a vicious cold snap.

We're part of it too, though apparently the national news has forgotten that Wyoming exists. (Then again, I used to forget Wyoming existed too, you know, before I moved here!)

To sum up: it's freaking cold!!!

Like, record-breaking, shockingly, unusually cold. For instance, today is a "warm" day, it we're supposed to have a high of 6 degrees. Yes, 6. As in, well below freezing.

But hey, it least it isn't a high in the negatives, like it was the past couple of days…

Put on a couple extra layers and buck up!

We've also had The Husband's mother visiting us this past week, and she has let us know under no uncertain terms how cold it is. Apparently it would be warmer to live in the Arctic than in Wyoming…

With all the complaining she has done, you'd think she lived on some tropical island in the South Pacific, and not some place that actually gets more snow and just as cold of temperatures as we do here. It would figure that Mother Nature would decide to misbehave when my MIL is in town…

I'm sure some how this will end up being my fault! Because clearly I'm in control of the weather and use its power solely to inconvenience others...

Besides freezing our nubs off, things have also been incredibly busy. School has been a struggle for me this quarter, for some reason. My classes aren't necessarily particularly difficult, and I've actually enjoyed the subject matter, but since the move I feel like I'm just barely keeping up. And this coming week I have two papers due, two quizzes due, a fuller work load than normal… and my sister-in-law and brother-in-law are flying into town…

How I'm going to juggle it all, I don't know. I'm going to try and get one of the papers done this weekend and turn it in early, and beyond that, I may have to be fairly anti-social and sequester myself in the bedroom doing schoolwork. But we warned everyone that the kids and I would still have school when they were here visiting, so I guess it is what it is.

Today, though, I have festive plans! Since the past week has been so hectic, I'm behind on my decorating. I'm usually the one whose house looks like the North Pole puked in it the weekend after Thanksgiving, so the fact that my tree isn't even done yet?

Shameful!

So I'm going to finish my decorating today. I also have a crap ton of Christmas cookies to make.

(Yes, crap ton is an official form of measurement)

Then tonight, The Husband and I are going to a "traveling Christmas party" that his department is putting on. We'll be having appetizers at one person's house, the main meal at another's, and desert and gifts at a third. It sounds like fun, and I'm honestly looking forward to getting out of the house for a few hours.

We're also going to try and squeeze in some super secret Christmas shopping too, though I'm not sure if we'll have the time today.

Either way though, it's time to get my Christmas on!!!