Dear LJ,thanks a freaking lot!

[jenni_snake]

Hello all - somehow and for some reason LJ deleted me from all my friend update notifications. So my apologies for thinking LJ died. I see it is still very much somewhat alive! And so am I, hahaha.

ETA: Floods finished, city cleaned up, now covered in snow. And cold. No: COLD.

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[aswanargent]

It's too late for 2013, but if you'll send me snow shoe sizes for yourself and Laura, I may have next year's Christmas gifts taken care of! In the meantime, bundle up and stay warm. Drink hot chocolate. Invite the cats under the covers!

[jenni_snake]

Hahaha, it's usually not this bad, so snow shoes would just sit in storage. ;-) Trying to keep warm, new apartment isn't too bad for that. How's your place? How's the weather?

I DID get the Halloween card, by the way! Thank you! Hopefully you won't wait until I'm a skeleton to come!

Any opera or anything in the works? Our last one was The Italian (Girl) in Algiers. It was great! Our next one is The Flying Dutchman I CANNOT WAIT!!!

[aswanargent]

The weather here can't make up its mind what it wants to do. It's gloves and muffler time in the morning when I walk out the door around 6:00 a.m., then it gets into the 70s. Just heard them mention the possibility of 80 degree weather this weekend

[jenni_snake]

Cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon? Haha, that sounds like a Calgary summer. ;-) I'm in Edmonton this weekend, visiting Dragan, and it's pretty cold, though I didn't go outside all day. Laura couldn't make it because she's working. :-( But it got up to 8C today in Calgary, so I bet all the snow (and there's LOTS of it!) has melted! Or just turned slushy in time for it to start freezing and creating more havoc. :-S

If you find anything at the beginning of April, let me know... I don't think that should be a busy time for me. :-)

Flying Dutchman, love it. Saw it in Moscow at the New Bolshoi and it was done in pseudo-modern setting and the girl's spinning wheel song was done on stationary bikes. I nearly died!!!

Aw, we'll keep an eye out! Thank you!

[aswanargent]

Stationary bikes? *boggles*

I did look into flights, but it's cheaper and faster to fly to Calgary from L.A. than from Chicago. So scratch that idea.

[jenni_snake]

Hub with most connections to Calgary? Phoenix. Because, well, think about it - where do Canadians want to go in the winter? Certainly not a city that is just as cold! ;-)

[jenni_snake]

And stationary bikes, how does it not make sense?


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