in for the holidays
Christmas alone is not quite as depressing as it is advertised. I would definitely trade it for being able to celebrate with family, but since my parents are 2000 miles away, and even if I did have plane tickets, i'd still be sitting at O'hare with throngs of unhappy travelers, I'll take this as an alternative.
It would have also been fun to spend it in LG with Joe and his family, but timing and such prevented that plan.
The only truly depressing part of spending the day alone (besides the obvious: that I would have been so grateful to spend it with annie... but again, somewhat consoling that no one is getting in or out of Chicago due to weather) is that my CAR has been stuck in between giant, rock-hard snow mounds since friday that have melted just enough to freeze back into ice piles and keep my car submerged.
I carried a 30 pound bag of rock salt 8 blocks on tuesday in hopes of rescuing my poor defenseless vehicle. Unfortunately it is still too thick to free it.
I have shoveled for a total of 3 hours in the past couple of days and never got it anywhere near free.
It was somewhere between -20 through -40 with windchill on Sunday. -20 w/ windchill on Monday and quite rainy and snowy (and sleety) for the following two days.
Believe it or not, I'm actually braving the elements quite well and am more interested in enjoying the moments and festivities and people here than being cooped up inside indefinitely, but this has nearly defeated me. It's been a rough weather week by everyone's standards, but most people had the foresight on friday to free their cars from the muck. I had my first minor weather freak out and hid indoors before bundling up, getting brave, and trudging through many inches of snow to the train because I couldn't imagine driving in the ice covered roads.
Instead, what I should have done, as instructed by locals, was brave the snow and at least fully dig my car out before venturing to the train.
Beginner's mistake. OH well.
Anyway, I am supposed to go to see my family in Wisconsin on Saturday. The next two days are supposed to be significantly warmer, and I'm hoping the weather and my determination will get my car free, because so far, even with a posted Craigslist ad asking for help, no one else has been able to come through, and I don't know what other avenues to take.
It would have also been fun to spend it in LG with Joe and his family, but timing and such prevented that plan.
The only truly depressing part of spending the day alone (besides the obvious: that I would have been so grateful to spend it with annie... but again, somewhat consoling that no one is getting in or out of Chicago due to weather) is that my CAR has been stuck in between giant, rock-hard snow mounds since friday that have melted just enough to freeze back into ice piles and keep my car submerged.
I carried a 30 pound bag of rock salt 8 blocks on tuesday in hopes of rescuing my poor defenseless vehicle. Unfortunately it is still too thick to free it.
I have shoveled for a total of 3 hours in the past couple of days and never got it anywhere near free.
It was somewhere between -20 through -40 with windchill on Sunday. -20 w/ windchill on Monday and quite rainy and snowy (and sleety) for the following two days.
Believe it or not, I'm actually braving the elements quite well and am more interested in enjoying the moments and festivities and people here than being cooped up inside indefinitely, but this has nearly defeated me. It's been a rough weather week by everyone's standards, but most people had the foresight on friday to free their cars from the muck. I had my first minor weather freak out and hid indoors before bundling up, getting brave, and trudging through many inches of snow to the train because I couldn't imagine driving in the ice covered roads.
Instead, what I should have done, as instructed by locals, was brave the snow and at least fully dig my car out before venturing to the train.
Beginner's mistake. OH well.
Anyway, I am supposed to go to see my family in Wisconsin on Saturday. The next two days are supposed to be significantly warmer, and I'm hoping the weather and my determination will get my car free, because so far, even with a posted Craigslist ad asking for help, no one else has been able to come through, and I don't know what other avenues to take.