Man, I love that kind of crazy snow.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2006: You're ON THE LIST!!!
Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2006? Don't think we've forgotten about you.
brenda m - Dec 21, 2006 3:21:51 am PST #85 of 513
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Fred Pete - Dec 21, 2006 3:51:26 am PST #86 of 513
Ann, that's a ferret.
One or two inches of snow is ambiance. Eighteen inches is WAY over the top.
OTOH, one or two inches is a nuisance. Eighteen inches is several days off work!
Frankenbuddha - Dec 21, 2006 3:52:45 am PST #87 of 513
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Eighteen inches is several days off work!
Not if it starts snowing Friday afternoon.
Signed,
Still bitter the two storms that dropped 36" were on the weekend.
DCJensen - Dec 21, 2006 3:56:27 am PST #88 of 513
All is well that ends in pizza.
Eighteen inches in Minnesota is one day off, I think. Maybe. But "if the interstate is cleared, you better be at work."
I haven't made the best employment choices.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 21, 2006 4:03:11 am PST #89 of 513
What is even happening?
OTOH, one or two inches is a nuisance. Eighteen inches is several days off work!
Depends where you work. Some places, it's not an excuse for being 5 minutes late.
Signed,
15 years later, and I'm still bitter that I had to take "unscheduled" time off, to leave work (a telephone customer service job for billing) during a hurricane, AFTER public transit had shut down.
brenda m - Dec 21, 2006 4:03:29 am PST #90 of 513
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I am glad that I got my SS out already, though. Hopefully it has arrived/will arrive soon. And my gift already got here from the west coast. I'm going to open it tonight. Yay!
Fred Pete - Dec 21, 2006 4:46:23 am PST #91 of 513
Ann, that's a ferret.
Yeah, I live where major snowfalls are rarer. But even as a kid (in the rural Midwest, so no public transportation of any kind), a foot of snow during the week usually meant a day or two off school. Because bus full of kids on rural roads, some of which are the last the plows get to? Not gonna happen.
We did get one day off school for only 4 inches. But that was because high wind blew it into drifts.
Amy - Dec 21, 2006 4:56:28 am PST #92 of 513
Because books.
Up here (Central New York, near Lake Ontario) it's really rare for the kids to get off from school. It snows all. winter. long., and we get a lot of the lake effect snow. I will say they keep the roads well plowed and salted, but the boys were horrified to learn that the six inches that would have kept them out of school in PA is laughable here.
libkitty - Dec 21, 2006 6:54:33 am PST #93 of 513
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Eighteen inches is several days off work
A couple of hours if your lucky. They used to give sun days occasionally back in the heydays before oil crashed in the 80s. But not since I've been here.
When my cousins were young in Anchorage, they got a new superintendent from Florida. First snow, he cancelled school. There was much joy among the students. Some adults took him aside and had a chat. That was the last snow day that year.
Edited because I know better than to make a plural with an apostrophe, really.
Amy - Dec 21, 2006 7:00:29 am PST #94 of 513
Because books.
::bounces into thread::
My Secret Santa gift arrived, and quester outdid herself! The box overflowed with goodies, and they were all so cool! (And all the stuff just for me was wrapped in shiny purple paper!)
For me there were beautiful crescent moon earrings in a beautiful little wooden box with "Joy" carved on the front, a crescent moon Christmas ornament (I think it's definitely an ornament, quester -- at any rate, it's on the tree now!), a SILVER CIGARETTE CASE that made me squee out loud (!!!), the best fridge magnet ever (St. Von Nicholas of Myra, Patron Saint of Cakes and Cookies), notepads and playing cards and a gorgeous 2007 desk calendar of Peru, and all kinds of things for the family -- wind-up chattering teeth and a frog and a penguin and a platypus (I think), a Wizard of Oz flip book, and another Christmas ornament, which Sara has already claimed. Oh! And pirate bandages and a harmonica!
Best. Box. Ever. So many goodies, and such cool ones, too. Thank you, quester!