Life as I know it.

It's kind of loud in Atlanta today, a different kind of loud. Normally, I hear the city go by, today I hear nature fight back. 1/4" of ice after a night of freezing rain and I lost my weekend. Can I skip work tomorrow and do all things I needed to do yesterday and today? I haven't experienced ice like this since I left the northeast just over six years ago, it doesn't make me long for home. What makes me long for home is hearing that my niece is sick and that my brother has gotten engaged. It's been six years since I lived close to my family and today I long for it. It's my mom's birthday on Wednesday and I won't be there to give her a hug, its making me sad. I have no desire to return to New York, I am a wimp when it comes to the cold.

I grew up in a small town, really small. In this town, the average temperature is 25 degrees on the high side and 7 degrees on the low. Upstate NY, where it is cold most of the time and industry has departed. Here in the warm south I have a decent job, in an industry I really find amusing. I don't know what I would be doing if I had stayed in NY six years ago. I try to avoid that train of thought...