Lovely

[ostarella]

Well, Xmas is turning out to be the same crap as usual. Wanted to get all the shopping done Sunday so if anything needed to be ordered we could do that without hassle, but no - nobody felt like making out their lists yet, let alone shopping. So supposedly going to do that Tuesday and hope we can find stuff (the City tends to have the same items in every store and not a whole lot of variety at all). Then I went out to dig out the truck since I'm supposed to take it in today to get the brakes fixed and guess what? Someone nabbed the radio out of it. Plus it wouldn't start which means getting it towed to the garage. And we're due for yet more fucking snow today and tomorrow...

Next year I'm hitching to Texas and not even getting a tree. Swear to god...

Comments

[beckyblack]

They need to move Christmas to a more sensible time of year, I swear. It's total havoc here because of the snow, just at the time everyone wants to be travelling and going shopping and getting shopping delivered to them of course.

A want to move to Australia where it's all warm and sunny at Christmas time.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Seriously - whose idea was it to designate December anyway?

[beckyblack]

It was presumably decided on in the days when if you'd once travelled ten miles from your home village you were regarded as some kind of world traveller.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

You mean Jesus wasn't born on the 25th December?

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Who knows? Nobody sent me a birth announcement...

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

If you go to New Zealand it IS a really sensible time of the year... yet I did find it rather weird, that in the middle of their summer, shop windows would have 'snow scenes' for their marketing/window displays.

So we can't really move it... otherwise the Southern hemisphere would complain. Easier if we all just go there! Australia's big enough :-P

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

That is rather shit about your radio being pinched.

Hey, I was thinking of you yesterday, when my dad and I cleared my path and a bit of my driveway. I remember you showing us that photo of your path being cleared, and it was FEET tall. My snow is nothing in comparison, yet it's the most I've probably known all my life... may have had it bad one year when I was a kid, but can't remember it ever sticking around long.

We just don't get the snow here really... Bristol gets hit and Weston has none. Yet we've had it worse than Bristol now.

Makes me bloody cross they don't grit the flipping roads though.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

We got another 6-7 inches yesterday/last night. My brother was up in Minneapolis - took him over four hours to drive home (twice normal) and then he got stuck in the road in front of our house. We had to dig, then push, then dig, then push... Thank God I'd cleared out the driveway - once we got him off the street and into the alley, I drove it right into the cleared spot.

The plows went through this morning - so now, between new snow, wind, and plows, we've got a pile about five feet high to dig out at the end of the sidewalks and driveway, plus another foot or more on the sidewalks and drive.

Hate winter. Hate winter. HATE WINTER!!!!