Snowing here

Ok, so we are all ok after the shooting incident in town yesterday. Thanks to those of you who asked. I will admit it did kind of freak me out since I wasn't sure if Maria and Asim had ventured out -- Maria's driving around all the time now! -- so I called as soon as I heard, and they were relaxing at home, having not gone out at all.

The mall is actually the one we go to once in a while to. It's a pretty nice mall, actually. There are a lot of the better restaurants around it -- PF Chang's, Cheesecake Factory -- and the Mini and BMW dealerships.

Other than that, it started snowing this morning and hasn't really stopped. It's sticking pretty good, although out of my office window with all the traffic the road is just very wet. Once again, I'm grateful for having a quick walk to work. I'm sure the park that I cut through will be looking absolutely gorgeous tonight, covered in snow.

Many of you might not know that we still haven't got cable yet. I'm very happy about this. I've been able to go to the local bar (a block away!) to watch the Steelers when need be, and otherwise, there's enough football on the weekend on the three channels. I daresay though that I wish we had Fox simply because there's a game on Sundays that I always miss. We do have Internet, and so now we may go the Netflix route.

In the evenings when I get home, I eat, relax and then ... play with Asim till he goes to bed. He's been going to bed earlier -- before 8:30 -- and so after that I -- get this -- "read." That's right. Like, a book. I'm almost done with one and even went and bought another one to start on in a few days. I bought the book -- used -- at a local bookshop that I walked to. I am still getting over the greatness of a bookshop within walking distance. So. F'in. Fantastic. And it's a great shop, too. Like, stacks and stacks of books, falling all over each other, piled to the ceiling, "more in the back," old, new, everything in between. Spectaculicious.