Vermont seems lovely, both geographically and people-wise. And, as I'm thinking (a little bit, not that seriously) about moving back to the midwest, I can't really kick about the snow aspect.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Calli - Apr 01, 2011 9:06:35 am PDT #18757 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
amych - Apr 01, 2011 9:10:27 am PDT #18758 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
WAIT WHAT NOOOOOOO!
SailAweigh - Apr 01, 2011 9:14:53 am PDT #18759 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Score!
Anne W. - Apr 01, 2011 9:16:08 am PDT #18760 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Oohhh. Where in the midwest?
brenda m - Apr 01, 2011 9:18:02 am PDT #18761 of 30000
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
Aroo?
Beverly - Apr 01, 2011 9:59:15 am PDT #18762 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Vermont does indeed rock.
Steph, all grace to your ladyparts.
Farewell, puir wee Hamish. (Isn't Hamish a boy's name? Large, redheaded Scotsmen's name?")
The conversation previous, Calli, amych, Sail, Anne, and Brenda, was just beautiful. And made lots more surreal if you read their taglines.
Calli - Apr 01, 2011 10:34:23 am PDT #18763 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Where in the midwest?
Eh, just toying with the idea, really. I'd like to be closer to my family, but I also want to be employed, so MI itself is probably out, alas. (My nephew has a badass engineering degree from Kettering University [motto: MIT, whatEVAH] and he's been job hunting in MI for over a year now.) Madison, WI, looks nifty. I liked the few days I spent in Duluth, MN (granted, those were in August). And it could be interesting to try big city life for a while, so I've been checking out Chicago neighborhoods online.
In the end I'll probably just end up sitting on my sofa in NC with the AC turned up, reading Dane101 and A Perfect Duluth Day.
SailAweigh - Apr 01, 2011 10:51:21 am PDT #18764 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Come to Madison! We have fried cheese curds, the best food evah!1! As long as you don't want to be a state employee, you're golden.
Calli - Apr 01, 2011 10:57:18 am PDT #18765 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have heard of the magical fried cheese curd. It does sound wonderful.
[heads off to run Madison through idealist.org's employment database]
askye - Apr 01, 2011 12:16:18 pm PDT #18766 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
RIP Hamish. I've had several dwarf hamsters and they are sweet little pets.
Steph - yeah snow removal is covered as part of my rent. That was a big deal in looking for places. I was hoping to find a place with heat included, but off street parking and snow removal is pretty good.
This past winter hit Will hard too. The weight of the snow - caved in one of his barn/shed things where he had some tractors and stuff from when he was actually farming.
He sent me pictures of huge piles of snow and it did not deter me. I may change my mind, but as long as I don't have to remove snow I think I'll like winter better than weeks on end with the heat index in the 100s and high humidity.
Oh! And I'm looking forward to less pollen. From what I understand things don't turn yellow during spring from the pollen. Tally's in the stage of having yellow pollen puddles after it rains instead of mud puddles.
Dad got me one of these - [link] Capilene t shirts for xmas and I'm planning on asking for more of those for my birthday (which is in June, but I'll need them).
And my brother got me some awesome boots, which are more for wearing around the house or running quick errands.
And when my bro was in New Zealand he got me a pair of possum fur and sheep's wool socks and I'll be buying more those.
It's sounds weird, possum fur, but they are warm and soft and not itchy.