I can smell snow, I thought to myself yesterday morning...sniff...yep, SNOW. Better get all that running around done at ONCE!
I was smiling, just THINKING about the possibilty of falling flakes...
I LOVE SNOW!
I do....despite my aversion to cold weather and preference for sunny days, I just LOVE it when the first flakes start swirling and suddenly I'm 11 years old and it is a Snow Day!
All of my whining about how cold it was (and YES, I'm completely aware that it is WAAAY colder almost everywhere else...) turned to glee.
Even though I have lived lots of places where snow must be shovelled, and snow lasts for MONTHS at a time, I have never quite gotten over the glee of the First Snow.
I was already dressed for it....long underwear,wool socks, tee shirt (knitting related, natch) and sweatshirt under Gore-tex jacket...hat, scarf and mitts. BOOTS.
The goodyear blimp look. You know the one. Very Attractive. Nearly Impossible to even fasten my seat belt....ooooof. Do Minnesotans have different seat belt mechanisms in their vehicles for winter wear? Smaller air bags? I noticed in my owners manual that IF my Mommymobile had indeed been built in CANADA, I'd be enjoying Heated Seats! Side Mirror Defrosters! I consoled myself with the fact that I hardly EVER need such luxuries....To her credit,The Bruce Springsteen Edition Mommymobile has an excellent heater and a fabulous defroster, so I was underway in record time. Flew through the required tasks, and JUST as I was headed home, the first flakes flew.
Within 15 minutes there was Significant Accumulation (For HERE, this is Big News Indeed)and HUNDREDS of accidents. sigh.
I called Maggi. "It's SNOWING!"
"Here, too!"
Now that I've seen her fabulous office in person, I can totally understand why she said she was thinking about climbing out of her window to be OUT in it....
teehee.
I called Daughter at The College. Yep, Snowing there, too!
Sandy Poodle was less impressed. Her FIRST Snow! Whatever. All that cold stuff sticking to my little paws, pick me UP, please! No, THANK you...
Take me inside and feed me by the fireplace. This is NOT good.
On a completely unrelated note, I pray to GOD that Apple does not start marketing fiber of any kind. I am relentlessly pursued in my dreams of late by photo ipods, the shuffle, and NOW, the MAC mini with the optional superdrive. I am powerless to resist of course....like a Poodle with a pork chop. Drool, snap! Must.Have.
whatever is a Gadget Girl to DO?
Well, for today at least, I shall be wearing Black.
Several. layers.
The 20th is usually one of my favorite days.
Not this one.
I shall not be contributing to the National economy
nor *celebrating* the Inoguration of dumdub.
(misspelling, intentional. I'm On Strike.)
PEACE.
The snow was beautiful in Durham from on high. Beautiful, but when I left work, it took four hours and 20 minutes to get home! This is a trip of 35 miles! (No apologies here - this ordeal deserves a few exclamation points. At least I'm not shouting.) Holy crow - I have never seen traffic like this in NYC or LA. Un-be-lieveable. It took so long, I had to take a bathroom break and that was no mean trick. People were leaving their cars and just smoozing by their cars.
Posted by: Pubah | January 20, 2005 at 08:17 AM
I've got freshly fallen snow too, and it is good.
Posted by: claudia | January 20, 2005 at 08:30 AM
Because I am less than 4' 11" tall and drive a Honda Odyssey, mirror adjustment is, ummm, done with much precision and fine tuning. Our high today will, if we are lucky, hit 0 degrees F and, because I drive a Canadian-built vehicle too elderly for heated seats, I will have to adjust mirrors at least TWICE. Once when I start the van and again 10 minutes later when the seat thaws out and I start to descend! Off to shovel, Grace
Posted by: grace | January 20, 2005 at 08:48 AM
Snow! Oh - must.hide.screen.from.son. It has been so unseasonably warm here! J is having a fit! The temps have finally dropped but no magic flakes in our immediate future. I have been looking at my birth place temps and I can say with all honesty I don't miss negative degree anythings. Although it would give me a "legitimate" excuse for knitting up bunches of goodies.
Posted by: lillium | January 20, 2005 at 09:35 AM
Greta - Bad Influence Gadget Girl here... my Mac Mini shows up tomorrow. (its so cute!). I'm on a waiting list for a Shuffle. And, you just don't want to know about the number of iPods we've gone through here ...
And, its snowing here too!
Posted by: Melissa | January 20, 2005 at 12:06 PM
Snow? I'm so jealous!! They say flurries maybe here on Sunday, but that's no fun. We need a snow day!! Oh, and go for the IPod Photo, definately (and the Shuffle, and the Mac Mini, and - oh you get the point - hee hee) Further south Gadget Girl here.
Posted by: Jane | January 20, 2005 at 12:11 PM
I am feeling the same joy over the first snow. I'm a teacher and we LOVE the first snow and all the others. I'm enjoying a snowday here in Virginia just like I did when I was in school. Jane
Posted by: jane | January 20, 2005 at 05:22 PM
Hi, Greta-The alien scarf is from Stitch and Bitch. It was fun to make but the edges curl too much for me. Next time I'll put on some edging to make it lie flat. I've been watching for the Shadow Knitting book. I looked through it at my Knit Night at Barnes and Noble and it looks great. It's $21.95 there but much cheaper in my KnitPicks catalog I got this week. I've been reading your blog for a while and as a teacher I enjoy hearing about your children success! Jane
Posted by: jane | January 20, 2005 at 08:09 PM
Greta - pics are up. The Mac Mini is SO WONDERFUL!
Oh, and unless you have a pressing reason to want to do slide shows from your iPod, or think that seeing album art while listening to music is the most awesome thing ever, or (and this is the biggie) have so much digital music that a 40GB iPod is too small... I'd buy the 40GB iPod over the 60GB iPod photo. (I have a 40GB iPod, my husband has the 60GB. I like mine better....) I don't think the color display adds that much to the music experience...
Posted by: Melissa | January 21, 2005 at 04:41 PM