I wish I was snowed in! It would be a much better alternative to cubicleland.

Slow down. Now that you don't have to be someplace else, you have the time to bake bread (& something sweet) and make a stew or soup. Warm the house & the body.

Ah, that poor, snow-covered Mini! I would love to get a day to stay home and take care of things around the apartment, bake some cupcakes, organize my closets. I guess I just have to go to work and deal with the 65 degree days... :)

So I'm not necessarily snowed in, but I've been working from home recently and have a bit of cabin fever! With that said, ive surprisingly done 6 of the items on your list! (1,4,5,7,8,10)

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I wasn't sure if Photo #5 had a hidden meaning :)

Dig frequently is the smart thing.

It's far easier to shovel a sidewalk covered in 4" of snow 5 times than to shovel a sidewalk covered in 20" of snow once.

Also, there are lots of places such as Texas going through rolling blackouts due to excess energy consumption - so getting some exercise outside, lighting a fire in the fireplace and making a roast in the (gas-powered) oven will keep you warm when the power is out.

I absolutely agree with Barefoot. It's a rare chance to take a breath, as it's also impossible to run errands. I'd embrace it with some cooking and reading. man, that sounds nice right now!!

Chicago has a snow day and we are all here at work in NYC -- surely the world has gone topsy-turvy! Enjoy it -- you've been deserving it for decades!

#2 reminds me of when my husband and I sheltered in place due to a wind storm. He was so bored he very uncharacteristically suggested a completely new way of arranging the living room. It was fun, took our minds off the weather, and worked so well we left it like that for years.

If you have an elderly neighbor, it's really nice to tag-team with other younger neighbors to shovel them out. Or, if there are groups of kids walking the neighborhood looking for shoveling work, pool some funds together to have their sidewalk done. As someone who lives far away from her aging parents, I always love hearing that someone has taken care of their snow. Makes me feel good about humanity. :)

We are in CT & have had 8 snow days since Dec 31st. I am already a stay at home mom....but entertaining a stir crazy 3 year old while being 8 mo. pregnant is hardest thing ever. So my post would suggest simply maintaining my sanity as something to do! Mid afternoon cups of tea are helping with that & naps when I can!

Yeah, I'm snowed in with the two feet that dropped yesterday. There are 3 to 6 feet snow-drifts all over the place, and I LITERALLY thought that I was going to die when I was trapped in the middle of campus in a snow-drift up to my thighs and the blizzard blowing everywhere so that I couldn't see any buildings.

But what am I doing now? Watching Doctor Who with friends and drinking tea. Though I might throw in a load of laundry now that it has been mentioned.

haha! we are snowed in, too! yesterday i made a little bookshelf. today i'm making a small table. i rearranged some wall art yesterday & hung out online about 8 hours longer than i should have!

I may be snowed in, but am working from home -- so these things I'm not able to get to. However, my husband is home (and not working) so he's being fabulous and catching up on some cleaning :)

in NJ, this is my fifth day snowed in in Jan. i actually did all this stuff already in the last few weeks. dexter reruns are in for today. spring please.

oops yeah its feb. now.

Digging out is more fun than it sounds? I don't know about that! I just tried. Really not fun at all.

I'm a stay at home parent with one child in grade school and one in half-day preschool, so I get way more done around the house when there *isn't* a snow day. Snow day = kids at home = cleaning and organizing aren't going to happen.

...And in 9 months, there is going to be a mini-baby boom of November babies... ;-) (...funny how it always happens...)

I just moved to an apartment so some one else can do the digging. Right now all I'm digging are these great pillows I'm making for the sofa and cushions for the kitchen.

I'm iced in and just did my taxes. This might be the earliest I've ever done them. Next: I'm going to bake bread, and during the rises, I think an episode of Downton Abbey might be just the thing.

Here in Milwaukee, we got around 20 inches and drifting up to six and seven feet. Spent the morning with the neighbors, snow blowing and shoveling everyone out a bit--but still not going out on the roads.

Have a red sauce simmering and berry pound cake about to go in the oven. Now to settle in and snuggle up!

Man, we sure could use a snow day here in the Northwest. It's very cold, but no snow. I'm enjoying the sunshine, but a nap would be even better. :)

Rearranged all my drawers, pushed some paperwork and made soup. Will clean the house soon and take my first steps outside in snowy Chicago. Then tonight MahJong with good friends/neighbors!

There's about 18" of snow in the alley blocking me from getting out today (here on the near north side of Chicago). Fortunately, I stocked on groceries and toilet paper yesterday.

I'm doing laundry, preparing our condo's financial statement and baking cinnamon rolls from scratch. All in all, not a bad way to spend the day!

I'm sorry, not to be crude, but babymaking should be on that list.

It might explain why so many of my relatives were born in August.

Snow day - WHAT IS THAT????
In Canada, you are supposed to show up for work snow storm or not. (Not management though - they are cozy pretending they "work from home".
It's not much better here than in Chicago and I had to drive to work. Since then, another 6" must have fallen. Drive home will be major fun.

18 inches here (just south of Chicago) everything is closed because of the drifts. No school today or tomorrow. I have a lot to do with my kids going in and out (Cleaning floors drying snow gear) having neighbor kids over, digging out with the high drifts was fun.

Pull a chair up to a window and just watch the snow for a little while. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever (my whatever is scotch...).

I made pancakes from scratch this morning - so much better than a mix, and not that much more work. Now we're baking oatmeal cookies. I'm on maternity leave, so snow days are basically the same as every day for me.

Schools will be closed Thursday too (!) so we'll do it all again tomorrow!

@ErickTheRed,

You're totally right, there's going to be a lot of babies born 9 months from today! I'm convinced that there was a bad storm on April 24, 1983 because I know so many people born on January 24, 1984

I third the babymaking :)

Temps in the 20's here in south Texas equal a snow day because no one here owns a real winter coat! I really think cuddling up on the sofa with hot tea and my cat to catch up on my tv watching beats cleaning any day!

I say cook something from scratch because the oven will keep you warm and you couldn't drag me outside in that cold of weather no matter how good the food is! And cooking something from scratch is bound to kill sometime and is always an adventure.

Carb-loading and movies. Also, homemade soup. And cleaning the bathroom.

Never a snow day to be had here. But the first day of the Lunar New Year is a nice day off for sorting out odd drawers - even though technically, your house should be deep cleaned and 100% sorted out before today ...if you are Chinese that is.

Haha, ditto what ProfKD said! And cuddling-- whether with your honey, pet, or pillow. For me, it's also been rereading my camera manual and finally getting around to spackling and painting my hall. (And reading blogs like AT, clearly!)

Recognize the fence and house in the photo! I live just a few houses up in the old row homes. Thanks for the tips! Now, what to do with the kids, what to do...

Cooking and baking!!

Watching great old movies on TCM channel, doing a couple of loads of laundry. Also, cleaning off my car and moving it so the plow can clear the parking lot. Luckily, the association does the shoveling of the sidewalks. I love watching the snow!

I wish I could get snowed in! I have so much work to do around my apartment. Philly has been getting enough snow to make it dangerous but not even snow to close anything (at least at the university I attend)

I'm blasting the funk while doing laundry and deep cleaning...and debating whether to fire up the you know what RIGHT NOW!

Oh if only to be snowed in! I have been sweltering in 41 degree celcius heat for 5 days, just north of Sydney Australia. Can't even get motivated to decorate - all the better for scanning the deliciously inspiring pages of AT!.

our first snow day of 2012: I reorganized my closet & jewelry boxes (by earrings, bracelets, necklaces) so I could find everything. hemmed some pants, watched old retro tv shows (Hawaii 5-0, Mary tyler Moore, etc.) and Dr. Oz for some up to date info. oh yeah, I took a catnap and made some soup. It was a productive yet calming day to be inside and see all the white outside.