I must be insane

Today I drove to work. I must be insane.
This would be due to the snow (that is not *light* snow, damn it!), the blowing snow and the distinct lack of ploughing everywhere.
I thought the lack of ploughing was just where I lived, but the main roads were actually worse and I am trying to shut [...]

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Snow bad, knitting pretty

Despite being after March 21st now, the sky had the audacity to produce sufficient white stuff overnight that I had to shovel this morning.
Shovel. In late March. Blech. I would have left it to melt as the temps are going up a lot later this week, but the plough kindly dumped a mass of frozen [...]

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So it’s not spring yet, then?

Yesterday was a gorgeous, beautiful day. It was warm and sunny, everything was melting and it felt like spring was on its way. My snow banks by the drive were almost gone by evening! The entire neighbourhood suddenly revealed its (rather brown) grassy lawns and there were people out everywhere enjoying the day.
I took the [...]

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Freedom!

I actually managed to leave the house and come into work today. Hooray!
Yesterday turned into a bit of a nightmare, but at least I eventually got myself free. My aunt called the Lion’s Club and they contacted one of their members who does local shovelling. He came out and got rid of the snow bank [...]

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Trapped

Snow, topped with ice pellets and then topped with freezing rain forms an impenetrable barrier that is impossible to shovel.
How do I know this? Well, the company that was supposed to be coming out to plough me today has a funeral and possible pneumonia (WTF?) and so cannot come out. I just slithered (very carefully) [...]

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A post of positive things

So today had a quality of disasterousness to it and my wrists are not happy about me falling on the ice on Saturday and then spending today typing, so I’m doing a ‘positive things’ post.
1) I’ve got a short story with the words ‘The End’ on it. Still needs beta-ing, and it`s not Sensible Man, [...]

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Bad day

Today has been a bad day. I started out late to work (because I needed to shovel the drive) and it kept going downhill from there. Work was boring beyond belief and I worked through breaks and lunches to make up the time for being late because I planned to go to knitting tonight. I [...]

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Trying not to whine (too much)

Written this morning and not posted until evening: It hasn’t snowed properly for over a week, so obviously we’re now due for a big storm *sigh* It’s one of those annoying ones that was predicted yesterday morning as light snow, maybe 2cm, and is now being predicted as nearly a foot of snow and then [...]

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New BSG, where is House?

The Yarn Harlot pointed out this morning that the new BSG episodes start on Friday – yay! Did a quick check and they’re airing here at 10pm, so I know what I’ll be doing on Friday nights for a few weeks Good thing I’ve largely swapped my supper with aunt night to a [...]

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Snowy aftermath

Yesterday’s snow turned out to be rather a lot of snow, but I went out every couple of hours to shovel so it wasn’t as horrific as it could have been. Thankfully the snow finished by supper so I was able to call it done and not worry about getting another few inches dumped overnight, [...]

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