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Snow isn't a huge deal for a lot of y'all. In Dallas, we don't see a lot of the stuff in person. This last week, we've had ridiculous weather. It hasn't been above freezing or even above 25 degrees all week. Tons of ice everywhere. I haven't been awake one morning so far this week where it's been over 12 degrees. It's been in the low 20's for the "high" point of the day.
I know, wha wha wha. Whatever. It's Texas. We don't deal with this weather very often. I don't even own a coat or proper clothes for "real Winter weather" like most of the Northern people that have been giving me hell do. I can count on one hand the number of long sleeved shirts I own and they're all rather light weight at that. My Dallas Stars hoodie is heavier than the one jacket I own. I thought about buying a decent coat last year after it snowed but decided not to because I didn't honestly have the money to spend on one. I considered buying one again this year but didn't have the money to really spend on one and figured I'd be fine layering clothes and sticking with the jacket I had. I'm totally going this Spring when they have Winter coats on sale and finding a decent one to put away in case next year sucks. I did buy a pair of boots at the start if Winter late last year on a whim because they were on sale and I thought I might need them for something. Also because my boyfriend talked me into buying them, lol. Too bad I didn't buy a Winter coat. It would come in handy, lol. It's fine, I'll make fun of the people being assholes when summer time rolls around and they start crying because it's 85 degrees and they're "hot"... Pffft. Actually, I probably won't. I understand different regions are acclimated to different weather and temperatures and don't see a need to be a douche about stuff like that unless I'm just giving a friend a good natured hard time. I digress.
Anyway, I had a bad night at work last night. I've been sick and still have a lingering cough that makes my rib cage hurt. I got to leave work early last night due to injuring myself. If you follow my Twitter then you know what happened there. Anyway, it started snowing on my way out. Really snowing. No bullshit flurries coming down for all of five minutes and then it's done. And since it hasn't been above 23 degrees yet this week, and was a 18 degrees as I was driving home, the snow was having no trouble sticking around. It made for a nice, bright drive home. I don't know why but driving as the snow swirled around everywhere and started piling up was kind of soothing in a way. I'm sure later today when I'm driving to work, I might feel differently about it, lol. Though, I haven't had any issues driving in all of the ice we've had. Slow it down, steady and don't panic and it's not so bad maneuvering it.
So anyway, these pictures are from around midnight to 1 AM Thursday night. Technically Sunday morning if you're being technical.
Those are my foot prints in the snow. My new boot prints. Size 10 if you're wondering, lol. Sorry if any of the pictures overlap onto the side content. I didn't really want to mess around with re-sizing them, honestly. And they're BlackBerry camera quality since I don't have an actual digital camera anymore. Sadly.
Next time the blogosphere and Twitterverse is full of people talking about all the snow they're dealing with, I will not good spiritedly poke fun of them and give them a hard time.
Apparently if I do that, the next day, what happens is this....
Granted, it's not as bad as what a lot of you cats are dealing with but still. This is fucking Dallas, Texas. We don't get all that much snow. So far the last few months, every time I've given someone up North a hard time about their snow issues... we end up getting snow here. I like snow, the cold doesn't bother me much because I don't spend much time outside but yeah. I don't own winter clothes honestly. The few long sleeved things I own are light weight and pretty useless when it hits those lovely below freezing down int he teens temps.
Though, I don't think this snow will be sticking around long. Which makes me happy because the roads are going to be a mess and people are crazy drivers enough on normal, pretty weather days, lol.
The Boyfriend decided he was going to build a snowman. So he did. He's 6'8" tall if that gives you an idea of the height of the snowman. ;) Anyway. The Stars play tonight. We're playing Calgary. They hold the 8th place seat in the Western Conference with 67 points. Anaheim won last night which bumped them to 10th place and bumped us down to 11th. They're only ahead of us by 1 point though. If we win tonight against Calgary, we'll be back in 10th and over them by 1 point. Detroit is in 9th and they're tied with Anaheim with 65 points. I hope Detroit loses tonight so they maintain that 65, lol. Dallas is at 64 points so far this season. Calgary who holds 8th has 67. We have to freaking beat them tonight because then we'll only trail them by 1 point where as them winning just puts them 2 more points ahead of us. Which doesn't bode well for the Star's if they still want to try and make it to the freaking playoffs this year. Only the top 8 from each conference go forward. Despite Dallas not having the best season, thankfully neither have some other teams. Though, at least we're not the Edmonton Oilers with their snazzy 42 points. See Stars fans, that's something to be happy about. Sort of. ;)
I'm trying to find a template for the new blog. I can't find anything I like that's free that I can figure out how to make work, lol. Granted, I don't know much about doing that type of thing so it's not so easy for me but I'm trying to learn. If anyone knows a good place to get free (because I'm a broke ass bitch) blogger templates that look good, let me know please and thank you!
My new power cord came in over the weekend. Hooray! =) I could have updated before today but meh, I don't blog on the weekends, lol. My Saturday Survey is usually done on Thursday and just autoposts. ;)
I really wanted to post the picture of my mini snowman I built and the snow angel I made when I went with the family to play in some snow last Wednesday. Except my camera is still MIA so no snow angel picture. The camera made it home, just not too sure where it got up and walked away to once I sat it down on the dining table. It's annoying me though so it better walk right back into my possession sometime soon. I hate when things disappear on me, lol. The mini snowman picture is on my phone, I sent it to my email but here we are a half hour later and the damn thing isn't there. I'm tired of waiting. I'm sure it'll show up later so another day and I'll get to show off my pimp little snowman. ;)
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Nothing stressful or annoying before work. Work did suck though because it was rather slow and I didn't happen to work with any co-workers that I get along well with. And it was painfully slow, even for a Sunday night. Or, at least it felt that way.
I also did a wide variety of shopping yesterday too. Apples, carrot sticks, yogurt and such for my stomach. Eye shadow, mineral lip balm and face wash for my face so I can keep looking nice and keep things clean, lol. Then two bras, five pairs of undies, a new rockin' pair of jeans and a new pair of pajama bottoms. I hate shopping in general and I tend to wait until I can't wait anymore to buy new stuff. My jeans were in sad shape. I'm talking indecent to wear out in public almost, lol. So I definitely needed some new ones. I didn't have enough patience to look for more than one new pair though. I get bored and annoyed and tend to move on quickly when I'm shopping. Not my thing.
Then after work I chatted with Boyfriend for a while and messed around on my laptop for a while. Then I watched one of my favorite movies, The Dark Knight. I love that movie. So much. Lol. I forgot how effing long it is though. Actually it's not *that* long but I was tired and everything slows down and takes longer once you get tired and start feeling the want to sleep pulling at you.
Today I'm hoping I get to go out to lunch before work. Sometimes, I feel like I live at work. Which is weird because I also feel like I don't work enough hours and want to work more. I think the feeling of living there is from spending 5 to 6 nights a week there. The feeling of not working enough comes from my desire for 9 to 10 hour shifts instead of 6 to 8 hour shifts, lol. I really do like to work. I feel horribly unproductive and rather pathetic when I'm not working.
Last but not least lets have a musical Monday. ;) This is "Wasting My Time" by Default. I haven't heard this song in a long ass time. I used to love this band back when I first heard of them, shortly before they got some attention for this song. I dunno why but I was contemplating things and this song popped into my head on Saturday and it's been stuck there. It kind of fits in my own way. I love the way lyrics can be so subjective.
Still no new power cord for my laptop. Which sucks, lol. Hopefully it will be here by the end of the weekend. Of course, it's Friday now so maybe later today or some time tomorrow I'll get lucky and it will come. Not using my computer much doesn't really bother me though. Sure, I miss writing on my blog and definitely miss reading other blogs too but I'm not going crazy without it. I miss getting on my social networks, checking email, playing games and doing the other things I do online but I don't feel any loss without it, lol. I don't have much time to be online anyway because I work a lot. I also watch hockey and movies a lot, lol. So that I don't feel too annoyed or frustrated and that I'm not freaking out or feeling cut off is cool. It makes me super happy in a time when I know so many people who freak out going just hours without being connected and I've gone almost a week without it and I'm cool. There's more out there then life on line ya know? ;)
Wednesday I spent a big part of the day with my family on a day trip. We drove a couple hours to go to the mountains close by and play in the monstrous amounts of snow. As soon as I can get pictures on here, I'll post some. Including the awesome snow angel I made and the awesome mini snowman I made with Little Sister's help. It was a fun day off from work.
Thursday was a really pretty day. No rain, no cold weather. It was actually kind of warm out, compared to how it has been, lol. So we were busy as fuck at work. I actually had to go in early because they needed the help. It was crazy. Every time we tried to get clean and stocked, we had more customers just coming and coming. It rocked though because the time just flew by. The last hour we slowed down and didn't have many customers come which made cleaning and stocking much easier, lol. I had to go on my lunch break to buy new shoes because I wore my running shoes to work because my work shoes were soaking wet, lol. My running shoes were killing my feet. They might rock for running or jogging but for standing and moving around at work, they sucked. So I ran to get a pair of shoes since I needed new work ones anyway. So while searching for shoes in my size, I had a little boy come on the aisle I was on. I saw him out of the corner of my eye and then turned around to face him when he was almost next to me. He told me he had been trying to scare me and asked if he had. I said he hadn't. He laughed and said, "Aww man I wanted to scare you." I was thinking -ookay buddy- but the kid was maybe 11 or 12 so I didn't think much of it. Then he looked at the shoes I was looking at. "Are you gonna get those shoes?" he asked me. I said I was getting them. I grabbed the box and he grabbed them away from me. "Are you getting these? Are these what you want?" he asked. I said yeah and asked for them back since they were the only ones in my size. He grabbed a box and said he was gonna get some too. I was thinking, -oookay little weirdo- and then he looked at my work shirt and asked me if I worked at that place. I said no, lol. He asked if I had to go back to work now or not. I walked off to the register. The little boy and his grandmother ended up in line behind me and I turned around and he waved at me. His grandmother asked what he was doing and he said I worked at blahblahblah but said I didn't and yadda yadda yadda. The kid wasn't really obnoxious either. He wasn't taunting me or being a brat. He seemed serious enough in all his statements and questions. Definitely was a little on the strange side, lol.
Today is payday! WOOHOO! ;)
Well I must run. My borrowed time is up, lol. Saturday Survey is set to post tomorrow. ;)
