Day 50
First off – I wanted to mention that my little sister, Emily, is currently in the midst of a very long voyage from upstate NY to New Zealand where she’s going to be studying abroad for several months (she’s a junior at Cornell and this is an exchange program).
You can follow her on twitter, but if you feel you need to get acquainted with her before you make such a commitment please go here and watch some of the videos we made together. She’ll also be blogging soon which I’ll keep you posted about. She gets to enjoy 2 summers this year. I’m going to try to stifle my jealousy. Here we are at my wedding, she was my Maid of Honor.
Also, are you following us on twitter? Just checking. 
We’re just beginning day 3 of being completely snowed in. All of Joe’s classes are canceled today and my work is shut down. Our car is still stuck in its place and our street and the surrounding ones have not been touched.
Yesterday we didn’t leave the house except for Joe’s brief trek out to see if any of the roads were drivable. Sadly they were not and we had to miss Joe’s brother’s Super Bowl party out in the suburbs. And to top it all off I’ve accumulated some nice pressure in my head and nasal area. Lots of sneezing and dripping and icky things.
Our Super Bowl celebration was pretty pathetic. I made pancakes for myself and Joe had leftover red beans & rice from three days ago. We ended up doing our activity at half time and went with something very easy… we didn’t really have many options!
Race to finish a Word Search
But not just any word search – a word search full of some of the most frequently used words on our blog. I generated a tag cloud from our blog and picked 24 of the most used words. They must go with the most recent words because our cloud was really loving CHEESECAKE.
If you have a blog I recommend making a tag cloud, they’re pretty interesting to look at.
I used another website to generate our word searches and printed out two copies.
We each had a red pen, Joe did a countdown, and we were off….
Now, Joe’s usually really good at this type of thing (puzzles) and always wins. I’m happy to report that this was not the case last night. I finished while he still had at least 5 words left…
I gloated, just a little bit.
And yep, I was in my pajamas for the entire day yesterday hence the glasses, whispy hair and bathrobe. That’s what happens when you’re snowed in!
Since our fridge is nearly bare we might have to trudge through the snow down to our Giant Eagle which isn’t too far away. I’m actually a bit sick of cheesecake at this point and our only other options are condiments or cereal without milk. Ugh. And we have to come up with a creative new activity for today as well… Hmm…
We’ll see you soon!
Hi Joe & Betsy! I found your blog via a twitter post at iheartpgh. I love your little corner on the web. Your activity-a-day postings are great and you two are so cute. I was going to do something like this for my 30th birthday–doing 30 new things before I turned 30, but it never materialized
If you’re looking for some more activity ideas, you might be mildly inspired by some of my “urban exploration” blog posts, which are here: http://cityscrapspittsburgh.blogspot.com/search/label/urban%20exploration
Hey Adaena! Glad you found our blog and in turn we found yours – very cool, I’ll have to spend some time looking through your archives.
– Betsy
Thanks for mentioning IheartPGH too! I am glad you did – I had seen your blog before and I could not find the link to it. I have added you to my google reader.
Hi Besty – hope you are doing well.
nice win betsy! we could use some of that glorious snow here in vancouver! the winter olympics start on friday and we need some winter to go with them! i’m going to the rehearsal for the opening ceremony this afternoon. not sure why i am mentioning that, but i am excited!
xo
p.s- go buy yourself some fruit! i couldn’t go a day without eating an apple.
Lauren, please take some of our snow away! The Olympics need it more than we do.
Good luck to your sister. You both look stunning in the wedding photo.
Congrats on the wordy win!
Dear Betsy: Let’s open up a creative studio together. From: Rose
Dear Rose: Consider it a done deal. Warm regards: Betsy
haha congrats on the win
What a fun task!
I absolutely love the tag cloud.
And sorry to say it looks like you have more coming! wordle on….