Saturday, January 22, 2005
There's a Snow Train A-Coming...
OK, enough already. Over 12 inches of snow blitzing continuously for the last 16 hours is unnecessary and unacceptable. It wouldn't be so bad if we had some decent slopes around here for skiing and apres-ski. But all we have are ploughed-in cars, squalls swirling the snow aimlessly up in the air and generally awful weather perfect for re-reading a book like Misery.
It's a giant sno-cone machine out there -- from my street-level apartment, I can see about half a foot of snow blown and packed up against my windows. It's a Dairy Queen blizzard. When I left the house at 7.30 this morning to go boxing, I stepped through knee-deep snow to get to the truck and spent 15 minutes brushing off the fresh snow -- really, if we need to find some good cheer in all this, at least the snow is fresh, soft, pretty. Although I easily powered Brucie on to four wheel drive on high and he propelled through snow embankments easily, I ended up at the gym with wet socks and shoes. Then I helped shovel out cars stuck in snow (which was a lot of fun -- you don't get to do this in Singapore!) and now, I'm just going to spend the rest of my day catching up on reading Middlesex.
But oh wait, Beth and I are going to see A Streetcar Named Desire tonight and we're grabbing a bite beforehand. Oops. Can't get too uncomfortable under the blankie.
Is it spring yet?!
It's a giant sno-cone machine out there -- from my street-level apartment, I can see about half a foot of snow blown and packed up against my windows. It's a Dairy Queen blizzard. When I left the house at 7.30 this morning to go boxing, I stepped through knee-deep snow to get to the truck and spent 15 minutes brushing off the fresh snow -- really, if we need to find some good cheer in all this, at least the snow is fresh, soft, pretty. Although I easily powered Brucie on to four wheel drive on high and he propelled through snow embankments easily, I ended up at the gym with wet socks and shoes. Then I helped shovel out cars stuck in snow (which was a lot of fun -- you don't get to do this in Singapore!) and now, I'm just going to spend the rest of my day catching up on reading Middlesex.
But oh wait, Beth and I are going to see A Streetcar Named Desire tonight and we're grabbing a bite beforehand. Oops. Can't get too uncomfortable under the blankie.
Is it spring yet?!
// posted by Desiree @ 2:35 PM 
