Month: January 2005

This would be much more fun if it were a work day/school day, y’know? Who wants a state of emergency on a weekend?

We’re loaded up with snack foods, and some good stuff, of course, and the coffee maker works, so no worries. Except we’re fighting about who will have to go out and try to remove two feet of snow from the driveway when there are sustained 30mph winds (windchill is somewhere around 15 below) with gusts to 50 MPH! As you can imagine, nobody wants to go out there.

I posted last night and the blogger kind of ate it, so I apologize for that. To show how much so, I invite you to pull up a chair and have some brunch on my deck:

Note the size of my mailbox

Somewhere under there is a Honda Accord

I am a very VERY unhappy girl right now. How on earth it happened, I
don’t know, but at some point today my SideKick got two scratches on the
face that are actually so annoying and distracting that I’m going to
have to figure out if the faceplate can be fixed or replaced. They
distort some of the pixels and it’s too annoying to ignore. I know they
weren’t there at swimming, so it happened sometime after that. Obviously
I shouldn’t keep it in the knife and razerblade pocket. Grrrr.

Also, why oh why oh why was this snowstorm so hard to predict. I mean,
we’re in the middle of getting 2 FEET of snow. Was it really that hard
to see coming? As of yesterday morning the weather sites were STILL only
predicting 4 inches of snow. I wish I’d done a screen shot of the
report. Two days ago it was “snow possible”. POSSIBLE? 16 to 25 inches
of snow, people. That’s not “possible”. What good are the weather
reporters who are too afraid to say something like “we think that maybe
there will be a n’oreaster this weekend, but amounts depend on the storm
track. Nobody went out to get prepared yesterday because the weather
reports weren’t talking about it until last night!

So ya, I’m mad. Just what exactly has happened to the local
meteorologists that they have been so far off and unreliable this year?
I mean seriously just missing the boat on stuff. I am almost to the
point where I don’t believe ANYTHING they say.

I tried to email to blogger last night and this disappeared, so I copied it from my outbox.

I am a very VERY unhappy girl right now. How on earth it happened, I don’t know, but at some point today my SideKick got two scratches on the face that are actually so annoying and distracting that I’m going to have to figure out if the faceplate can be fixed or replaced. They distort some of the pixels and it’s too annoying to ignore. I know they weren’t there at swimming, so it happened sometime after that. Obviously I shouldn’t keep it in the knife and razerblade pocket. Grrrr.

Also, why oh why oh why was this snowstorm so hard to predict. I mean, we’re in the middle of getting 2 FEET of snow. Was it really that hard to see coming? As of yesterday morning the weather sites were STILL only predicting 4 inches of snow. I wish I’d done a screen shot of the report. Two days ago it was “snow possible”. POSSIBLE? 16 to 25 inches of snow, people. That’s not “possible”. What good are the weather reporters who are too afraid to say something like “we think that maybe there will be a n’oreaster this weekend, but amounts depend on the storm track. Nobody went out to get prepared yesterday because the weather reports weren’t talking about it until last night!

So ya, I’m mad. Just what exactly has happened to the local meteorologists that they have been so far off and unreliable this year? I mean seriously just missing the boat on stuff. I am almost to the point where I don’t believe ANYTHING they say.

Jody Says: This is the perfect time of year to treat yourself to a little something special – lotions, bath salts, candles. This recently-discovered site is actually owned by my friend’s sister, but she does have some great prices on some really neat stuff. If you live in Santa Cruz, you can visit her store, but for the rest of us, we can shop online. The store is called Passion Hill and I am going to be buying the lemon soy wax candle (because I love lemons) and some of the dead sea salts. Because I hate winter and I need something to remind me of swimming in the ocean, quite frankly.

Okay, so here’s what they’re saying about this morning:

“THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY INCLUDES WESTERN…CENTRAL AND INTERIORNORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. WIND CHILL VALUES AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 BELOWZERO ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID MORNING.A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN THE WIND CHILL INDEX IS LIKELYTO REACH -20 TO -29 DEGREES FOR AT LEAST 3 HOURS. ”

Yea!

So to stave off insanity, I post this picture from last summer.