Friday, March 7, 2008

Ummm.....

Last night before going to bed I heard all of the weather men squawking about us getting 3-5 inches of snow. So when I woke up this am I was surprised to find absolutely no snow. I scoffed at their wayward predictions. Turns out that they were just a few hours off because today at 1:00 pm it started, and it hasn't stopped.

Call me crazy, but I thought one of the perks to living down here was the whole no winter bit. This is DEFINITELY winter! As you can guess there will be no going anywhere tonight or tomorrow for that manner. As they say, "I hope Mr. Young will remember, the southern man don't know how to drive in the snow anyhow." Or something like that...

True to his Cascadian blood, Stanley didn't mind one bit. In fact he used the snow as an invitation to jump all over me for play. Seizing the opportunity I started throwing snowballs at him. Though he seemed to like it, I felt the fight was a bit unfair. Turns out that it's pretty difficult to make snowballs with paws. We had to come in after a few minutes due to the cold. Oh, the days where 32 degrees at 5:00 pm meant, "hey, spring's right around the corner."

Tennis Comes to Memphis

So it would appear that Jonnett has fully embraced Scott's love for all things tennis. Last week the ATP and WTA tours rolled into Memphis for the Regions Championships and the Cellular South Cup. We got tickets for 3 different nights, and saw some really good matches with Tommy Haas, Lindsay Davenport, and Andy Roddick.


For the semi-finals, we discovered that working for ALSAC & St. Jude has it's perks! The good people at La Croix (they make bottled water) gave Jonnett and I front row tickets to the Andy Roddick match! We could have actually reached out and touched him, although I think that might have violated some tennis taboo or something. At any rate, we had a great time at the match. At one point Andy asked the people in our box if we'd seen any good movies lately. I think he was looking for some humor because the guy he was playing was doing really well. Andy ended up losing, but we still had a great time.