Snow
Well it has arrived, it actually arrived last week and has keep on showing up. So much that Friday, the last day of school before winter break, was canceled. Now I am sitting on my bed listening to the sounds of cars trying to make it up the hill I live in, and snow is falling outside my window.
I'm thinking that I probably will have to have my Dad come and pick me up and bring me back home for Christmas. I still haven't gotten chains for my tires and so I drive around at a sickeningly slow speed, so my car will remain intact. But the no car while in Medford situation will make it difficult to visit my friends next Monday, so the debate in my head continues.
I have been doing chores I have never done before in my life, such as shoveling snow out of sidewalks and driveways(last year my landlord paid to have them done for me). On Sunday I was shoving my car out of a foot of powder so I could go to church, in my wedges, yes it was freezing.
I have never really lived in snow like this before, and we rarely have snow days. Even when the whole state has them, it is the epitome of unfairness. I haven't really decided if I like snow or not. Right now I am leaning towards the not, being that it is wet, cold or a mixture of the two, but if you had asked me a week ago I would have said that I loved the snow (it is amazing what opinions can be reformatted in a weeks time). Then again the snow leaves lots of time, and excuses for doing other things I love such as reading, writing and surfing the internet, and all those things are guilt free because I have nothing to do being that there is a blizzard outside of my door.
If I were to stay in Klamath Falls for Christmas the day would be white, in Medford my odds are less so, at best it will be a dismal off white of a millimeter of snow. While the romance of waking up to snow and warm fires on Christmases are sung of in musicals of the 1950's, I'm not sure if it is really all it is cracked up to be. After all someone will have to shovel the driveway so Grandma and Grandpa can come in, and we get fined if we don't shovel our sidewalks before eight in the morning. Plus our fireplace is currently out of service, making the reading by the fire possibility obsolete in this household. So I guess my answer is: No more snow!
I'm thinking that I probably will have to have my Dad come and pick me up and bring me back home for Christmas. I still haven't gotten chains for my tires and so I drive around at a sickeningly slow speed, so my car will remain intact. But the no car while in Medford situation will make it difficult to visit my friends next Monday, so the debate in my head continues.
I have been doing chores I have never done before in my life, such as shoveling snow out of sidewalks and driveways(last year my landlord paid to have them done for me). On Sunday I was shoving my car out of a foot of powder so I could go to church, in my wedges, yes it was freezing.
I have never really lived in snow like this before, and we rarely have snow days. Even when the whole state has them, it is the epitome of unfairness. I haven't really decided if I like snow or not. Right now I am leaning towards the not, being that it is wet, cold or a mixture of the two, but if you had asked me a week ago I would have said that I loved the snow (it is amazing what opinions can be reformatted in a weeks time). Then again the snow leaves lots of time, and excuses for doing other things I love such as reading, writing and surfing the internet, and all those things are guilt free because I have nothing to do being that there is a blizzard outside of my door.
If I were to stay in Klamath Falls for Christmas the day would be white, in Medford my odds are less so, at best it will be a dismal off white of a millimeter of snow. While the romance of waking up to snow and warm fires on Christmases are sung of in musicals of the 1950's, I'm not sure if it is really all it is cracked up to be. After all someone will have to shovel the driveway so Grandma and Grandpa can come in, and we get fined if we don't shovel our sidewalks before eight in the morning. Plus our fireplace is currently out of service, making the reading by the fire possibility obsolete in this household. So I guess my answer is: No more snow!