It's snowing outside and I am most seriously displeased. We're not talking a little bit of flurries, either. This is a few inches of snow and it's staying. It is May, I should not have to deal with snow! I shouldn't be surprised, since this is not the first year we've had a May snowfall but I will still sulk about it. I'm so sick of winter. ( Read more... )

It's cold out. It was below -40 this morning when I got up to get the kids ready for school. Which then involved a consultation with the husband as to whether they should go or not.

I do this ramble/rant every year. The thing is, when the temperature gets low enough, the school busses deem it too cold to run. The schools, though? They never ( Read more... )

I totally hung out with Neil Gaiman tonight. And by "hung out with" I mean I was in the bookstore when he visited, did his reading and Q&A, then stood in line to have my book signed. The store (shop if you're British) was impossibly crowded, which is really no surprise, although still impressive considering the size of this particular McNally ( Read more... )

It's March. It's also -40. Someone needs to inform the Canadian weather that we're supposed to be warming up for spring now ( Read more... )

With the cold snap across North America, it's been interesting to hear different peoples' ideas of what constitutes freakishly cold. I sympathize with some of you, particularly the ones who have been hit with an unseasonal amount of snow. Depending on where you live, even two or three inches can be a real pain to deal with if you're not used to ( Read more... )

It was -40 today. (Fehrenheit or Celsius, they're both the same at that point.) I did not know this when I set out to do some errands.After the first ten minutes of walking, I regretted leaving the house. After an hour?


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We had our first big snowfall on Thursday night. Not our first view of snow, but we've reached the point where it's snowing pretty heavy and we'll have snow on the ground until spring. Enough snow piled up that I had issues getting the munchkins to school on Friday morning, since one is still too little to walk the full way (especially through ( Read more... )