brrrr but safe
Well I made it to work with only two hassles. The first was, of course, that they city so helpfully plowed crap into the end of my driveway after I pulled something in my side shoveling enough of it to hopefully get my car out.
Let's backtrack.
We had about five to six more inches of snow over Tuesday night and the temperature dropped. After lazing around watching tv all morning, I went out around 2:00 and snowblowed, but then had to dig out a good foot deep and six feet wide at the end of the driveway. The city, for some reason, plowed one lane, the far lane, of my street. All I can guess is that they were doing the secondary street a half block up and decided to cut down my street to get to another secondary street. I probably should have snowblowed into the street more on Tuesday because I had to shovel the foot of snow. I just did the side I park on.
Actually we had nearly thirteen inches of snow which is about two more than the big snows from last February. But I didn't have Joy then.
It was bitterly cold but I got very sweaty--I pulled out my parka, wore a shirt, sweatshirt, leggings, skirt, two pairs of gloves, and was boiling hot by the time I was done.
No mail for two days. Whatever happened to that wind, sleet, snow thingie?
So, I spent the rest of the day and evening on the couch with the heating pad on my sore muscle (arms are sore, too) in my side and watched a bunch more tv and some basketball and read fanfic. Then, at midnight I tested out the nbcolympics streaming site to watch the first heat of men's qualifying slopestyle snowboarding. Hardly any buffering, unlike London but then it was also midnight. Very annoying that the announcer had the whole thing wrong about who qualified, but otherwise very enjoyable.
I'm such an Olympics junkie.
Oh, and some time around dinner time the city plowed my street. Without going outside I couldn't really tell how much was shoved in the end of the driveway but considering that overnight temps were to be around negative eight and highs by morning around two, I wasn't happy. Also, my side really hurt. (It's fine now; actually I seem to have twinged the other side)
So I got up early, threw on my snow shoveling gear and tromped out--bitterly cold but no wind at least (so cold that the snow that I dragged into my garage didn't melt!!!) and someone had driven a truck or something a few times through the foot deep mound. I spent about fifteen minutes shoveling enough on the side I park on that I figured, if I could back straight, I could barrel through it.
Which I did. One really nice thing about Joy is that with the driveway done (or about 1/4 inch of snow pack on it) I can back slowly until I get to the end of the driveway, then gun it, instead of gunning it the whole way.
The city streets were pretty good, though once I'm off mine I'm on primary and secondary streets the whole way to work. The second hassle was that I forgot that the city would have piled up the snow in the middle of the downtown streets (they then truck it out) and while they keep intersections clear, they don't consider alleys intersections. I turn left into the alley behind my office, so I had to go around a couple blocks to end up on the correct side of the street. Alley and parking was plowed, steps were shoveled and snow melt put down. I wore my snow boots but didn't need them.
Oh yeah, choir was cancelled last night because our director couldn't get out of her street. We're having it Friday night. And my pedicure was moved to this afternoon.
Mom is having the vertigo treatment this morning, though she's not convinced it's vertigo--she and her chiropractor think something keeps slipping in her neck, pinching a nerve and making her blood pressure spike and her get dizzy. She's still having episodes occasionally so figured she'd finally try this to see if it works.
I'm going to watch the team figure skating in a little bit. I know that the few things on today will all be repeated on the prime time show and I may or may not watch that. I'm still up in the air on how to watch. Plus I have tv tonight. I'm nearly caught up--have one Helix and the last two SPNs to watch. I watched three Helix, three Following, and a lot of other stuff to get my DVR cleared (well, TW is there and American Horror Story which I'm way behind on).
Oh, somehow I nearly missed that Walking Dead comes back this weekend! I don't remember there being anything in the tv guide about it!
Well, I need to check the voice mail and do some filing before skating starts!
Except it started ten minutes ago and I can't find a video link anywhere even though it SAYS all sports including the vaunted figure skating will be streaming. NBC you suck.
Let's backtrack.
We had about five to six more inches of snow over Tuesday night and the temperature dropped. After lazing around watching tv all morning, I went out around 2:00 and snowblowed, but then had to dig out a good foot deep and six feet wide at the end of the driveway. The city, for some reason, plowed one lane, the far lane, of my street. All I can guess is that they were doing the secondary street a half block up and decided to cut down my street to get to another secondary street. I probably should have snowblowed into the street more on Tuesday because I had to shovel the foot of snow. I just did the side I park on.
Actually we had nearly thirteen inches of snow which is about two more than the big snows from last February. But I didn't have Joy then.
It was bitterly cold but I got very sweaty--I pulled out my parka, wore a shirt, sweatshirt, leggings, skirt, two pairs of gloves, and was boiling hot by the time I was done.
No mail for two days. Whatever happened to that wind, sleet, snow thingie?
So, I spent the rest of the day and evening on the couch with the heating pad on my sore muscle (arms are sore, too) in my side and watched a bunch more tv and some basketball and read fanfic. Then, at midnight I tested out the nbcolympics streaming site to watch the first heat of men's qualifying slopestyle snowboarding. Hardly any buffering, unlike London but then it was also midnight. Very annoying that the announcer had the whole thing wrong about who qualified, but otherwise very enjoyable.
I'm such an Olympics junkie.
Oh, and some time around dinner time the city plowed my street. Without going outside I couldn't really tell how much was shoved in the end of the driveway but considering that overnight temps were to be around negative eight and highs by morning around two, I wasn't happy. Also, my side really hurt. (It's fine now; actually I seem to have twinged the other side)
So I got up early, threw on my snow shoveling gear and tromped out--bitterly cold but no wind at least (so cold that the snow that I dragged into my garage didn't melt!!!) and someone had driven a truck or something a few times through the foot deep mound. I spent about fifteen minutes shoveling enough on the side I park on that I figured, if I could back straight, I could barrel through it.
Which I did. One really nice thing about Joy is that with the driveway done (or about 1/4 inch of snow pack on it) I can back slowly until I get to the end of the driveway, then gun it, instead of gunning it the whole way.
The city streets were pretty good, though once I'm off mine I'm on primary and secondary streets the whole way to work. The second hassle was that I forgot that the city would have piled up the snow in the middle of the downtown streets (they then truck it out) and while they keep intersections clear, they don't consider alleys intersections. I turn left into the alley behind my office, so I had to go around a couple blocks to end up on the correct side of the street. Alley and parking was plowed, steps were shoveled and snow melt put down. I wore my snow boots but didn't need them.
Oh yeah, choir was cancelled last night because our director couldn't get out of her street. We're having it Friday night. And my pedicure was moved to this afternoon.
Mom is having the vertigo treatment this morning, though she's not convinced it's vertigo--she and her chiropractor think something keeps slipping in her neck, pinching a nerve and making her blood pressure spike and her get dizzy. She's still having episodes occasionally so figured she'd finally try this to see if it works.
I'm going to watch the team figure skating in a little bit. I know that the few things on today will all be repeated on the prime time show and I may or may not watch that. I'm still up in the air on how to watch. Plus I have tv tonight. I'm nearly caught up--have one Helix and the last two SPNs to watch. I watched three Helix, three Following, and a lot of other stuff to get my DVR cleared (well, TW is there and American Horror Story which I'm way behind on).
Oh, somehow I nearly missed that Walking Dead comes back this weekend! I don't remember there being anything in the tv guide about it!
Well, I need to check the voice mail and do some filing before skating starts!
Except it started ten minutes ago and I can't find a video link anywhere even though it SAYS all sports including the vaunted figure skating will be streaming. NBC you suck.