Unstuck.
Kyle was up bright and early this morning. Well, maybe not so bright.......it was a slow wake-up, but it was way too darn early. We suited up and shoveled the Saturn out some more. Charlie warmed the car up as we prepared it exit from the apartment complex. They STILL haven't plowed anything in the complex....or shoveled anything besides the stairs and doorways. We were able to get the Saturn out with minimal effort (a slight stuck moment in a soft rut of snow and the guys pushing). So I drove the car out of the rough spots and walked back to the apartment and Kyle was like "So should I take your car to work today?" Duh. Of course. It will fare better than the Tibby in this stuff. Manual transmission. "So should we get the Tibby out too before I leave?" I'm not exactly going anywhere today. Don't worry about it. Silly husband.
About 9pm last night the guy whose car is next to the Tibby decided he was going somewhere. So he totally dug his car out and attempted to back out. He backed out alright, but didn't get any further than that. Mind you, this is the guy that hung out on his balcony all afternoon watching everyone get dug out. He even came out with a shovel! --which is a prized and rare tool around here lately. His car is still stuck there and I'm not digging him out. (I sent our only shovel to work with Kyle incase he gets stuck somewhere.) When we were going to bed, we heard the people in the handicapped spot shoveling to get out. Mind you, this was one of the cars that I helped dig out the other night (from the middle of the road). They were at it again at 6:30am and were able to get out. Last night we were watching these people go out to dig their cars out though....and thinking "Why didn't you do this when the sun was up and melthing the snow? ...before it compacted and iced over?". Some people.
The blizzard has probably been good for us around here. Minus all the cars that are always here, you'd never think many people lived here. Yesterday lots of young people were coming out of the woodwork to help everyone out....literally out. One guy that we met and talked with for awhile lives across from us (also from MN) and is in a blues band. Kyle gave him his card and he came out again this morning when he saw us out. I guess he talked to his band members and they're excited about the studio....and interested in recording. That's awesome. You'll never know who you're going to meet when out shoveling blizzard snow. Plus he's a huge hockey fan and is going to be trying out for the Broomfield team as well.
I've been able to pull my scrapbooking out this week and get a few pages done. I'm kind of stuck right now on a couple pages. On one I would like to make half a guitar for the border.... I'm envisioning a creamy body with some black scrolling on it. Another page I want to put turkeys running across the page. I don't know what to do for the other Thanksgiving page I have in the works. It's from when Kyle and John came out to Denver over Thanksgiving 3 years ago. I think the stuckness there is moreso that I just don't want to put a picture of John or Matty in my album at this moment. *sigh* So maybe I won't. This whole thing is just absolutely pathetic. Anyways, scrapbooking. I'm still 3 years behind. Up next is always more Charlie pages, Christmas...and New Year's Eve in Grand Forks.....then a Girls' Weekend! :D
I miss my girls back home...and especially miss having a Girls' Weekend a couple times a year. I was thinking the other day how it almost seems that since I'm married now, the Girls' Weekends have gone away. In fact, it's not because I'm married.....it's just that we live so far away from each other now that Girls' Weekend has become much more expensive now. One of these days / years we'll get everyone out to Colorado for a weekend of fun. I'm really hoping that Tony is able to make it out here one of these summers for a week. I wish I had the money to buy him a plane ticket. There are so many places I want to take him: Lakeside Amusement Park, Six Flags, Water World, the Denver Zoo, the Science & Nature Museum, the dogpark, the pool, up in the mountains out to the continental divide, downtown on the 16th Street Mall....maybe hot air ballooning up in Cheyenne.
Anyways, I'm gonna go work on those scrapbook pages. ...and clean the apartment some from our 2 days of "laying around".
About 9pm last night the guy whose car is next to the Tibby decided he was going somewhere. So he totally dug his car out and attempted to back out. He backed out alright, but didn't get any further than that. Mind you, this is the guy that hung out on his balcony all afternoon watching everyone get dug out. He even came out with a shovel! --which is a prized and rare tool around here lately. His car is still stuck there and I'm not digging him out. (I sent our only shovel to work with Kyle incase he gets stuck somewhere.) When we were going to bed, we heard the people in the handicapped spot shoveling to get out. Mind you, this was one of the cars that I helped dig out the other night (from the middle of the road). They were at it again at 6:30am and were able to get out. Last night we were watching these people go out to dig their cars out though....and thinking "Why didn't you do this when the sun was up and melthing the snow? ...before it compacted and iced over?". Some people.
The blizzard has probably been good for us around here. Minus all the cars that are always here, you'd never think many people lived here. Yesterday lots of young people were coming out of the woodwork to help everyone out....literally out. One guy that we met and talked with for awhile lives across from us (also from MN) and is in a blues band. Kyle gave him his card and he came out again this morning when he saw us out. I guess he talked to his band members and they're excited about the studio....and interested in recording. That's awesome. You'll never know who you're going to meet when out shoveling blizzard snow. Plus he's a huge hockey fan and is going to be trying out for the Broomfield team as well.
I've been able to pull my scrapbooking out this week and get a few pages done. I'm kind of stuck right now on a couple pages. On one I would like to make half a guitar for the border.... I'm envisioning a creamy body with some black scrolling on it. Another page I want to put turkeys running across the page. I don't know what to do for the other Thanksgiving page I have in the works. It's from when Kyle and John came out to Denver over Thanksgiving 3 years ago. I think the stuckness there is moreso that I just don't want to put a picture of John or Matty in my album at this moment. *sigh* So maybe I won't. This whole thing is just absolutely pathetic. Anyways, scrapbooking. I'm still 3 years behind. Up next is always more Charlie pages, Christmas...and New Year's Eve in Grand Forks.....then a Girls' Weekend! :D
I miss my girls back home...and especially miss having a Girls' Weekend a couple times a year. I was thinking the other day how it almost seems that since I'm married now, the Girls' Weekends have gone away. In fact, it's not because I'm married.....it's just that we live so far away from each other now that Girls' Weekend has become much more expensive now. One of these days / years we'll get everyone out to Colorado for a weekend of fun. I'm really hoping that Tony is able to make it out here one of these summers for a week. I wish I had the money to buy him a plane ticket. There are so many places I want to take him: Lakeside Amusement Park, Six Flags, Water World, the Denver Zoo, the Science & Nature Museum, the dogpark, the pool, up in the mountains out to the continental divide, downtown on the 16th Street Mall....maybe hot air ballooning up in Cheyenne.
Anyways, I'm gonna go work on those scrapbook pages. ...and clean the apartment some from our 2 days of "laying around".