That was the view out my front window just a short while ago (as was this). Jack Frost forwent the can and instead opened up a whole keg of whoop-ass on us, to the tune of about 15 inches—which, coupled with the 20-to-30-mile-per-hour winds, has created some spectacularly large snow drifts … many of which have piled up in the most inconvenient of places. Like against the back door, for example. I might have to go out a window.
And, as if the specter of a two-hour shoveling session wasn’t joy-inducing enough, my job-related duties for today got unexpectedly more demanding when my co-worker—whose responsibilities I was due to take over for a couple of weeks beginning tomorrow because his wife was scheduled for a C-section on Wednesday—emailed me last night to announce that his child had apparently finished gestating and decided it was going to break free on its own, so off to the hospital they went. (Congratulations, co-worker, on the birth of your daughter, whose birth pleases me … in spite of the fact that she clearly didn’t take my needs into consideration when deciding on the timing of her arrival. Damn kids these days.)
Dovetailing nicely with my increased editing and writing demands is the fact that, as a result of the weather, Wonder Woman and the kids are trapped in the house, so I am being serenaded with an endless cacophony of screaming (of both the happy and not-so-happy variety), which is greatly aiding my ability to concentrate and focus, tasks my ADD doesn’t already make difficult enough.
So, instead of doing some world-class blogging today, I am doing some world-class pissing and moaning disguised as blogging. Lucky you, Internet!
Allow me to close by saying to Winter in New England: Leave. Now. Please go. I insist. You’ve overstayed your welcome. Yes, I know it’s only March 2nd, but you have, over the past few months, dumped upon us more snow than I care to recall. I have had it with the snow-shoveling and the roof-raking and the ice-removing. It’s not funny anymore. You’ve made your point. Now get the fuck out. Seriously. I mean it.
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That’s unreal!! I thought the weather here sucked this morning because it looked overcast, but, um, I think you’ve got me beat.
Wow! We were supposed to get 3-5 inches of snow last night and schools were cancelled and we didn’t get even a single flake (I live in SC and they close everything if snow is in the forcast!). We were just excited that we might have 1 day of the white stuff, but since it didn’t happen, that’s it, bring on the 80* weather!
arrrg the weather is much the same in canada. the power in my house was out all this morning because of ice on the lines. awesome!
That is why I live in Arizona,
Saturday & Sunday 80′s
Today is suppose to get to 84.
I love it.
Wow, everyone is posting snow!! While we are currently experiencing unusually warm…and beautiful!!…weather in Colorado. I’m not complaining!
2 things.
1. I feel your pain. I hate winter so much that there is a large, unsightly tanning bed in my living room. I know, I know.
2. Reading your comment about pistachios made me laugh out loud- I had one hand in a bowl of pistachios at the moment. I should switch the laundry over, but they are So. Damn. TASTY.
I’ll take some!!! Living in California…We are in severe drought conditions. Even though we have had NONSTOP rain for 3 weeks now! Ugh…Can’t ever win!
I found you on PW’s site! Love your blog…I totally relate to your sense of humor.
We’re a few hours south of you (CT) and while we got about 12 inches but the drifts are so high that if I were to open my front door at this moment, twelve feet of snow would crash into my foyer!
Sarah: Overcast? Overcast? Why, I oughta …
Dana: Yeah, well, neener-neener to you too.
Candice: Totally awesome indeed.
Carol: Neener-neener² (Also: I lived in Arizona for three years. Wonderful to have such awesome weather in the winter months. Unbearable to live on the surface of the sun from May 1 through Halloween!)
Kelly: Thank you for not complaining. No need to, really, since I’m doing enough for everybody.
Lindsay: 1.) Thank you for the empathy. As for the tanning bed in your living room … um … I got nothin’. 2.) Big bowl of empty shells right here. Can’t believe I’m not sick.
Cindy: I’ll talk to some people and see if we can shift this weather out your way. (And thanks for the compliment!)
America’s Next Top Mommy: Yeah, we’d have that same problem … if we had a foyer. Did I mention I live in a glorified shoe box?
I’m in Florida so I’m just going to sit here and be quiet.
OMG – I just read your bio…are you kidding me??? I am a HUGE Sammy Hagar fan!!! In fact I just got tickets to both his shows in May…My DH and I have been Redhead fans and lovers of his for 18 years! We gotta talk…What a wierd chance of fate…found you on one of my fav sites (PW) and you love Van Halen! What a crazy world!
I believe it was the winter of ’48 that acted exactly as you have described. Drifts were higher than my 10-yr-old head, and the snow plows made it even worse. I’m so glad we don’t get snow like that in Utah…what we do get is bad enough.
Jon, although I was in the exact same snow storm here in Boston, it affected me differently.
The new pink handbag that was singing to be used went back into it’s winter closet like a groundhog, and hopefully not for 6 more weeks!
Excuse me but what is a snow blower?
My sympathies. I have a serious problem with cold weather. We just came through the worst snow here in 19 years. It cleared up recently and Life looked good. How could I have been so deluded? We are back to the gloom and rain that is the Great British Weather today.
Cool site – I too found you on PW’s blog. I have added you to my favorites. You are funny and so REAL!!! Thanks for keeping it real.
We have had our share of the snow and winter this year. My better half (or other half) is a snow plow driver and he worked 66 days straight before he got a break!!! Just seen photos of a train (yes the whole train) getting stuck in a snowbank just a ways from here. I’m with you – it’s time for winter to move on out. I’d settle for some 40 temps.
Enjoy your site!!!
Sandy: Thank you for having some class.
Cindy: Then you’ll probably wanna read this and this. Ever been to Cabo? I went twice; the second time was for Sam’s 50th Birthday Bash. That was awesome.
gail: Yeah, there’s not a whole lot to love about snow … especially once the holidays are over. January through April is grueling. I think summer should start on Jan. 1, and we should just skip spring altogether. Know anyone who can make that happen for me?
Meg: Yeah, we got teased with that moderately nice weather last weekend, didn’t we? It was like that old Ali “Rope-a-Dope” boxing technique … and Mother Nature KO’ed us once we let our guard down.
Ferngoddess: Oh, hush, you.
Belle: I feel your pain, sister. I feel your pain.
Rocky: Thanks so much for the compliments. I greatly appreciate it. And 66 days of snowplowing? Yikes!
I agree too. 8 wonderful white, wet, ice encrusted inches in the balmy South County of Rhode Island. It is my fault though. I posted my spouse’s blog contribution about signs of spring. The second installment might get posted in July.