seattle snow

We've been getting snow in the Seattle area for about two weeks now. In fact, I wasn't able to run the Jingle Bell run two weeks ago because of the cold and snow. We had a few days of decent weather- just enough to get rid of the several inches that fell that Sunday-- and then Wednesday came-- and along with it, lots of snow. Enough that I didn't work on Thursday, but played and walked to the store instead. Friday, I was able to get my car out and go to work early. Saturday I went to the gym and then decided that evening it would be good to stock up on gas and food as we were supposed to have a storm coming in that night. And we did. All night Saturday night, and Sunday.

I missed work again on Monday. There was no way I was getting out of our slushy, snowy and icy parking lot. Tuesday, I ventured out again and the roads were much better--- until the afternoon it started up again. I had to go to the airport late that night to pick someone up, luckily the drive was fine. However, I stayed up at his house that night (we got back around 1:30am). He had to be back to the airport early and I had to be work early. I spent all of two hours at work on Christmas Eve- repeatedly checking outside at the blowing snow. Around 10, I headed home and stayed there. Okay, so I also did a bikini snow run which my roommate took lots of pictures and video of. We had some drink and played some games and decided that this Christmas sucked because we were stuck at home. We had walked down to the store again that afternoon to pick up food for Christmas breakfast and dinner.

Well, Christmas morning I got up and put some cinnamon rolls in the oven and the power promptly went out. WTH?? I convinced my roommate we should dig my car out and go to a movie. That was an interesting drive. After the movie and after we dug out cars out we went to Denny's- and while we were there for only about half an hour the fog rolled in big time. Eeek. So, we headed home to find all of our lights and tv's on. Oops. Looks like we had power though. Yay!!!

Yesterday we ventured out to a couple malls just to get out of the house. It's been a little warmer and raining so it doesn't look like we'll be having to do any more digging out and pushing of our cars. Hooray. Although, I just now got my Yaktrax so I can run on the snow and ice. Oh, the irony.

Only a couple more days left in 2008... not sure how I feel about the year overall. The first five months just need to be removed from my memory. However, I've spent the last seven spending time with and pining over a boy. The same boy for the last few years. More irony. We started spending a lot more time together, and with his friends and roommates and talking a lot about big things and him actually asking me for help... only for him to have some health problems and decide he needs to sell his house and move. Sigh. I can't win. Love is a losing game.