Sunday, March 2

I headed over to my friend Matt's. His family was out of town, so when I pushed the front door open 5 dogs raised their heads to meet mine.
One of the dogs was enormous, and one was ridiculously tiny.
Matt was "dogsitting" for the weekend.

His house, unfortunately, was really dirty. The dogs were not allowed outdoors for some reason and they had made a mess of EVERYTHING.

I walked back to my downtown apartment--it was on a first floor and had French doors that opened up to the sidewalk. Once inside, a large door blocked the room that faced the street from the rest of the house. A balcony from the second floor looked down into that sidewalk room.

The news was predicting doomsday weather. My mother and father were staying with Zach and I and I called Matt and Scott to come stay with us because we were high above street level were the flooding and snow would not affect us. (I know. I know. I somehow had French doors that opened to the sidewalk and 16th floor living).

My mother cooked for all of us and I locked the French doors. I was worried because Matt and Scott hadn't arrived. I looked down the street and people with homes that weren't prepared for the weather kept banging on people's doors for shelter and food. I waved at Matt and Scott, asked them to hurry, and was elated to see that Matt was wearing his multicolored dream coat. It would surely keep him from harm.

In the house, after locking the doors, my mother sat us down for a nice dinner. We all sat around a large table and I thought about the fact that Matt and Scott had really little interaction with my father. I hoped he didn't hurt their feelings.

We ate and I heard banging on the French doors. I opened the divider door and saw that people had stuck their arms and legs in through broken glass windows. It was a post-apocalyptic scene. I screamed and closed the door and asked my father to take care of it.

Matt, Scott, Zach and I went upstairs to play board games. I could hear the thunder and the rain had started. I didn't worry, though. I had board games, my mom's cooking, and great friends.

I did worry about the dog's at Matt's place, but he didn't seem worried himself.