Can You Stand Me Yakking About Snow Again?
by Jenners • 02/12/2010 • Confessions, Life • 32 Comments
I’m wondering if all you folks who live in places where snow is common think us people on the East Coast of the United States are a bunch of whiny weenies when it comes to significant snowfall. Do you get tired of our storms being national news? Do you think: “Get over yourselves! We deal with snow on a regular basis and you don’t see us whining about it day after day after day.” So, I swear, this is my last snow-related post. (Unless we get another storm; then I feel I’m free to bitch and moan about it again.)
First, check out my fashionable snow shoveling outfit. I could totally wear this in Aspen and mingle with all the celebs, don’t you think? Either that, or I could rob a bank with my clever use of a Survivor buff as a face mask. (Buffs are those things they give the two teams on Survivor and all the skinny girls wear as tank tops. I use mine when I’m shoveling snow. Attractive, isn’t it?)
Can you see our mailbox in the snow pile?I can’t even tell you how much my back hurt after shoveling.
Sorry little snowman flag! You’ve got to die!But despite all my bitching and moaning, my aching back, my seemingly endless imprisonment with He Who Talks Non-Stop All Day (aka the Little One), I have to admit it looked pretty darn gorgeous outside today. The pine trees looked like they’d been dusted in sugar, the snow was sparkling like diamonds, the tree branches were outlined in snow and ice, and the sky was this brilliant blue. When the breeze blew, it threw snow up into the air that sparkled in the sunlight like fairy dust. A girl might actually think it was worth it after all.
This photo doesn’t even do justice to how pretty this tree looked.
now that the kids are back in school and i am regaining my sanity, i think i can fully appreciate the beauty.
For the love of God, take down the flag. It might be causing my snow too.
No school tomorrow. More snow Tues and Wed. Shoot. Me. Now.
Love the snow shoveling outfit – you'd fit perfectly in Sun Valley, Idaho – Idaho's version of Aspen!
Surprisingly, we usually get tons of snow and it's 55 degrees – totally weird weather. Send your snow man here – my garden onions are starting to come up on their own already!
And no matter how often it snows here, people still get crazy and drive crazy – it's four wheel drive forward, people, not four wheel drive stop! There are always several traffic accidents – you would think folks would get used to driving in the snow. So, no, don't feel bad about whining.
Take care and keep looking on the bright side of things to maintain your sanity.
I absolutely love your post about the snow. I heard some more snowy weather may be in the cards for next week so be prepared. You are totally justified in whining about it. Hope you have a great weekened : )
Love the "I take it back." That's what you get for hanging a snowman in your yard. Nice pictures. Does the Little One have a Teeny Man shovel? Put him to work, Mom. You gotta train them early.
We've had tons of snow here too. You look so cute all bundled up like that. Here's to spring!
I am just impressed you're still coherent. This winter has been incredible. I'm ready for spring.
Hilarious! And magical… As someone who has been buried under a metre of snow since December, I know what you mean about the shovelling.. and also about the sheer magical joy that sun on snow can bring.
I hoped you popped some tylenol–and took a hot bubble bath. whew!!!
Wow. I didn't notice your mailbox until you mentioned it. I hate…HATE shoveling snow. Especially the wet and heavy kind. I don't blame you for bitching one bit.
It's been snowing here all day but it doesn't look like we have THAT much snow (I'm on the east coast too…Georgia). That's crazy deep!! Oh, and I'm completely jealous that you have a Survivor buff and I'm considering rolling you for it….just lettin ya know LOL
Yes!!! I can relate to every word of this! We're still buried here in D.C…..
Okay, but don't complain if I grumble about the heat.
Al
Publish or Perish
You look quite beautiful in your ensemble!
I wouldn't have thought of such a creative use for a Survivor buff. Which season is it from (and does that mean you are a huge survivor fan)?
I'm surprised the neighbors haven't shown up with pitchforks and torches to burn the snowman flag.
You're some snow bunny! The trees look pretty by my house too. My husband likes to recruit our three boys as the shoveling brigade. He tries to supervise them but snowball fights eventually take over.
Love the pics… you look totally fashionable. Much better than what I wear shovelling the snow!
I too am sick of all the snow (not of your posts about it LOL) Haven't got as much as you, thanks to our Chinook's up here, but man oh man… where is Spring????
Nener, nener, what a wiener.
You asked. {*grin*}
I've got to give it to you, you make snow-shoveling HOT!
Send some my way! I don't like being so cold with nothing to show for it!
You were on Survivor? Cool!
I miss snow. As a former Minneapolis girl until I was 25, I do miss it. The crap dusting of 2 inches out here is a sad jole. Oh well, we can always drive up to the mountains and find more there.
btw – you might consider painting your mailbox another color
Talk about it as much as you can now, in a few months you won't be able to blog about it anymore.
Get a snow blower, then you can be guaranteed that this will never happen again.
At least with all the snow you can hide from He Who Talks Non-Stop All Day for a moment of quiet.
And thanks for not wearing your buff as a tank top.
The weenies are the ones who cry "snow day!" over a dusting of snow where you can still see the sidewalk through the snow.
But, buck up, your snow will be gone soon enough. I think ours will stick around til May. I am trying not to complain about it because we didn't get snow til end of November and that's very rare for us! It's usually here in October (though we did have a little bit of snow in October but it actually melted)
Personally I think we can whine all we want about this snow. This is the fourth day in a row where I haven't left my house but to walk around my neighborhood. Our roads out are still closed. No school three days in a row and President's Day Monday is a holiday. Plus rumor has it we may get more snow Sunday into Monday.
Throw a match on the snow man for me!
(And, given that I'm still whining about the blizzard of '83, I think you are entitled to whine all you like about this year's ridiculous amount of snow!!)
Snow, and icy tree branches, are the most beautiful things in the world — until you have to shovel the snow and pick up the fallen limbs from the trees…. then it's just a lot of work!
I lived in the D.C. area during the blizzard of '83. As of last week, it was still in the top 3 for all time in the area for amount of snow falling at one time. That was when I first started thinking that perhaps the sunny Southwest might be an attractive alternative to winter snowstorms!
I'd freak. The closest I've ever come to shoveling snow is one year when I had to scrape ice off my car's windshield. But I don't own an ice scrapy thing, so I had to use a text book. And it took FOREVER, and I whined about it for hours.
So yeah, I think you're entitled to moan about the snow a little more! (Especially when it includes awesome winter pictures!)
I do find it funny that snow is a big news story… but you did get a lot of it. Ice is another story, that crap is dangerous!
They wear those for tank tops? yikes.
I would have to agree with your comment that when anything weather related happens in NYC it is National News. We do deal with that here in the "Frozen Tundra" as Lambeau Field where the Green Bay Packers play (and the last time I sat in the subzero temps was the last time that Brett Favre donned a green and gold jersey…and choked with an interception. No big surprise.)
I will say that it is really lovely if you can just sit inside all toasty warm and watch it. But you really have gotten more snow than I ever have in my life in central WI, so I guess it does deserve the national news status! Stay warm oh my bundled up friend!
Enjoy the day!
Erin
As a Midwest girl myself, I have got to say you should feel free to whine all you want. That's an insane amount of snow right there, and I agree – the snowman flag needs to burn. But, those magical sparkly, freshly dusted snow mornings somehow do have a way of making it a little better. I'll agree with you there.
I love the picture! Does George (Clooney, needless to say) mind it when you're all bundled up like that? Or, well, don't answer that! :–)