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We didn't get dumped on with snow like we were supposed, so it is cold but the roads are clear and I've got a scarf my mom crocheted for me, so I'm good.
I would have still had to come to work (yeah jon, hahahaha snow day, the cancel school though, then the kid comes with me to work, that's always a blast, "I'm bored" "Me too, never grow up."). I'm fucking well soaked, I must get rubber boots. Fuck.
I don't wish to be that kind of festive with my co-workers.
I certainly don't feel like a kid, though, or whatever the intention was. I mean, I got up, showered, put on nice pj's, a little make up, blew dry my hair. . .I felt like I should have been going to a hotel instead of the office.
Note to Human Resources Professionals out there: Please god never make anyone do this.
Dress themes in the office are the atomic bomb of soul crushing "one of us" status quo brainwashing. Once they hit you with that, just try to survive, it can't really get any worse. Halloween: "Oh wino, you finally wore a costume, what are you, a soldier? Rambo? Wow that gun looks really real."
I'm gonna be like a Scandihoovian and drink ten cups of weak-ass coffee while watching the snow fall and participating in some handicraft industry or other. Then I'll warm it up with some akvavit and sort out a fuck from a cousin or two.
a Scandihoovian and drink ten cups of weak-ass coffee
You know scandihoovians who drink weak-ass coffee? My grandma thinks I'm a total puss because I sometimes put milk in mine and don't like to brew it so strong that you are calling out for a swift mercy coup de grace from a soon to be unusable bathroom five minutes after the first sip.
The other parts ring very true.
(she totally said "you are such a puss, you make me ashamed to be a swede, I hate you, this is all because your father is Irish, he smells like a brewery and I've got a complete inventory of my jewlery box so tell him not to even bother. Go sit outside and think about what a weakling you are.")
That's wild; maybe it's just Minnesotan and Manitoban Scandihoovians, but I've had some serious stretched out pots of coffee. Oh yeah, and some kickass soup made from vegetables and milk (back when I was more tolerant) and maybe some other stuff. Dill? But I think they were "Summer" vegetables.
It's fucking DISGUSTING and the boots I wore out weren't waterproof like I thought and by the time I got to work my shoes and socks were SOAKED. bleech.
I'm suffering through the same NY snow as a lot of y'all.
Also, the #21 busdriver got into a screaming fight with one of the passengers who wouldn't stand behind the white line, and refused to drive the bus for 10 minutes.
Also, my feet are wet. But tonight I will drink sangria!
Rainbaby: Where do you work where you're being forced to arrive in your PJs? Remind me never to work there.
Only if it turns into a slumber party would that be acceptable for me. Sparkly nail polish, gossiping about which boys are cute, giving someone a makeover... and then we'd work on the girls next!
We were supposed to have an ice storm last night so I cancelled my plans and stayed in and all it did was start to ice, then rain like crazy. Blah. Thank god I had already bought my yearly bottle of Jamesons. Now it's really cold like 25 (I believe the technical term is cold as fuck) and windy and my christmas decorations blew over, so I have 2 dead snowmen and a dead reindeer in the front yard.
Snowing hard, work cancelled. w00t! I'm going to the library to stock up for the weekend. I better get chocolate for the hot chocolate requirements, too.
Warming up after ice earlier in the week. Low this morning about 15, but should get into the 40s this afternoon and back to the 60s in the next few days.
me3dia, I'm sure you've been innundated by images, but Der Yid, that guy streaming AP pics on flickr that I stumbled across a couple weeks ago, has some interesting shots as well.
A fair amount of snow here. Although the sound of it hitting my skylight makes me think it's probably very wet snow. Got to head outside again soon, and I'm sure it'll turn to rain as soon as I get out there.
It actually snowed and snowed well here. Now it's beautiful and sunny which is perfect since I have to go to a Christmas party for my theatre department and school and then go Depeche Mode. (Yay!)
38F and clear skies, and we've got anotherair stagnation advisory in effect. That's the second one we've had this winter. Where the hell is the rain and/or snow? Y'all back east are hogging it all.
taz, if I ever believe I'm seeing you in that web cam, walking across the plaza I don't think I'll be able to refrain from waving wildly and yelling at the monitor.
Yes, in fact, I may have been dropped on my head as a young child, but enthusiasm counts for something somewhere, right?
I take it back. It's too wet and heavy for the snowblower, it's coming down at 3 to 4 inches an hour, it's blowing everywhere REALLY hard and its THUNDERING.
Snow sucks. This sucks. Everything sucks. Bah fucking humbug!!!
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