eveglass | Entries tagged with winter

One of the nice things about leaving work when I did (and also about having a job that only started at 10 am) is that I was able to generally sidestep the whole "waking up before the sun rises" thing. I absolutely hate waking up when it's still dark out.

On the other hand, I had to do it today because I'm helping a friend move and we need to be out of the house by 8:15.

Unfortunately, it looks like I'm gonna be waking up in the dark for all of January, since my classes start at 8:15, and I'll probably need to leave the house around 7:30. Boo.

It's -29 outside with the windchill. (That's -20 F, for the Americans out there.) There's a certain wonderful, wonderful joy in knowing that I don't need to go outside today.

1. The snow has started for real. This time, it ain't melting, baby. On the upside, I don't need to go into work. On the downside, I *do* need to go for an evaluation at the French language school. At least it's still in the "ooh, pretty" phase and not in the "grumble, grumble, stupid snow" phase.

2. Reading all 692 strips of Order of the Stick in two days has apparently infected my writing patterns. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Sunset at 4:11 makes me sad.

I mean, yay snow and all that, but what happened to sunshine?

Got back from downtown about a half-hour ago. Between the bitter cold and PMS-induced sadness, it would be so easy to just stay inside tonight, curl up with a mug of hot chocolate and a book, and do absolutely nothing this evening.

Except I know I'll feel better once I go to karate, even if the advanced class means that my legs and I may not have a good relationship for the next few days.

But it's a mental struggle all the way to avoid just staying home and feeling "blah."

Yesterday was a lovely day to curl up with a good book and watch the snow fall outside my window.

Yesterday I could have easily been convinced to find the biggest snow pile I could, play until I couldn't feel my face or fingers anymore, and then return home to a mug of hot chocolate.

Yesterday would even have been an appropriate time to light a fire in the fireplace and snuggle.

Instead, I found myself driving. Let me be absolutely, unequivocally clear: yesterday was not a good day for driving. I might even be fair to say that yesterday was a downright shitty day for driving. It took about 30 minutes to get from NDG to downtown (des Pins and University). It took over two hours to get back.

Normally, I don't drive downtown. Period. But this was a favour for a friend who needed to make a doctor's appointment. Marc (whose car I was driving) actually got out and walked for a while, and needed to wait for us to catch up to him before he got back in the car. And that was after we got off the really slow street and were only going moderately slow. Ugh.

In any case, my evening was much better than my afternoon, involving shisha, good friends, and a really good drink called a "kookee." (And that's good enough for me.)

Now I must away to the library to return some overdue books, to the bank to cash a couple of checks that have been sitting in my wallet all week, and eventually to downtown to watch Avatar with Ian. The things I do with my life....

#1: Operation "bowl with water in it" -- Failure, no difference in humidity levels.
#2: Operation "wet towels over the radiator" -- Failure, 3% increase in humidity, within normal variance for the room.
#3: Operation "where the [explitive deleted] is the humidifyer?" -- In progress
#3b: Operation "humidifyer in room" -- To be implemented in the near future

... Have I mentioned my room is really dry?

In other news, I've gone through my Avatar CD and now need to get Eric to burn me the next few episodes. (Eric, I know you're reading this -- fair warning.) Stupid cliffhangers. I'm really enjoying season 2, though. Lots of very nice character development, along with Avatar's signature comedy. I love Saka.

( A few other random thoughts from the last two days. )

Right. Enough of that. Time to get dressed and get driving.

My room is so dry. I woke up to an obnoxiously scratchy throat and blocked nose, just from lack of moisture. According to the little thermometre I've got, it's about 26% humidity right now. I don't know what "normal" is, but anything below 30% tends to bug my system... a lot. I guess it's time to try to find my humidifyer, or at least a bowl of water or something.

Hopefully it's better upstairs.

The weather network says that today our high (factoring in the windchill) will be a toasty -11 C. (That's 12 F, for all my friends south of the border.)

Let me repeat that: -11 C.

Isn't this something like a dip of at least 10 degrees since last week? What happened to my Indian summer, damnit!

Sigh. I suppose this means I'll need to dry my hair before heading out, then...

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Entries tagged with winter

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Ugh.

I'm sure it wasn't this cold last week

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