I didn't know there were beers I wasn't supposed to like. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to like beer. But I learned to drink from a bunch of rowdy musicians and they never mentioned it to me, so I just tried stuff until I figured out what I liked.
EXACTLY!
Thanks for the love, guys - with my other writing it's very straight ahead and factual, so it doesn't get the kind of response this style of article does. So this is so cool! May need to see if I can get a middle ground to inject my own tone/personality into my more prosaic pieces.
YAY Nora. AWESOME!
YAY good eye surgery!
It is 17 and snowing and sticking and no one predicted this and we have full tankers out on the roads trying to get to job sites. They stopped loading more after I got in around 8:15, but ugh for my guys out there in it, it is slippery.
Oh no, msbelle. And the SO is there too right now.
yeah, they said a dusting and well, nsm. It is still falling. I mean, I would not cancel schools for this, but it is borderline for us. surface streets will be a little slick, but it is all the elevated highways that are super no bueno.
Yeah and you guys have those funky "we don't believe in cloverleafs" soaring aerial overpass entrances and exits.
Ugh msbelle, good thoughts for your drivers on the roads.
Ugh. Apparently the heating in my house is only meant for normal Seattle weather--it generally keeps it pretty warm in here (though I've felt this year like it's less warm than in past years, where it would be TOO warm. Not sure why). But apparently it's only 24 degrees out right now...and even though I had the heat going all night long at its supposed top output, it's only 63 in here now. WTF.
Also, cramps. I am back in bed with a heating pad and cocoa.
I predict insulation companies making a killing this spring, summer and fall as people double down on winter prep.
I know that is part of my plan.
Yeah, that does not sound right meara.
Aargh.
So I was up half the night on facebook with a former student in a tough spot making suicidal sounding posts. She's ok. But I was supposed to have lunch with her this afternoon (previously planned) and now I screwed up and while I was warming up the car forgot that the left passenger window will roll down but not back up and it is stuck.
So now I have to call her and I have to probably deal with wrangling it to get it towed and the repair shop and it's supposed to rain and snow today. I'm half inclined to just tape a tarp to it and leave it for the SO to deal with when he gets home. But that would put me without a car.
I'm waiting for it to warm up now and I'll try again, but I'm pretty dubious at this point this is going to magically fix itself.
