Snow!

View from our window this morning

Today, I learned a valuable lesson. One that I hope all of you might benefit from. Most of you probably already know this and might think..."duh!" Well for some reason I like to learn things the hard way. Before I get to the "lesson learned" part, let me tell you a quick intro. So a couple of weeks ago I was home in PG, staying the night for something. Anyway, I had to leave early in the morning and it had snowed a lot. I thought it might be easier to pull my car into the driveway so I could quickly put my stuff inside. Well when I got back, I got a pretty stern talk from my father about what a dumb thing I had just done. I was so confused. Well driving my car across the fresh snow on the driveway was the dumb thing I did. Apparently I haven't had the experience of trying to shovel off that compacted snow. My brother just shook his head at me like "wow you are a retard! Everyone knows that!"

Well I decided that I would shovel my grandparents driveway tonight. They obviously can't shovel that huge thing. When I say huge I mean really, really loooonngggg! It was a pain in the butt, back, and neck. It was just me, out there all by myself, with the smallest snow shovel I have ever seen. However, I did get a great workout from it though. While shoveling, I realized what my dad and brother were talking about. Multiple cars had driven on the fresh snow and compacted it pretty good. It sucked. Mucho. I would rather wash a million dishes and do a ton of laundry then do that again. When I finally got to the end of the driveway, I walked up to find already another inch had fallen and made my hard efforts look like pretty much nothing. Exhausted, I put the shovel away and just layed in the middle of the driveway like a slug and watched the snow fall onto the ground as I cursed it.

Watching the snow fall was memorizing. So beautiful. I finally got cold enough and went inside.

Lesson: shovel the driveway before you drive on it. If you have time. Which I will make time for.

Christmas, even though our family didn't do our traditional Christmas tradition, went down very well. New traditions were started and we all just loved being together as a family. I hoped that we would all wake up to some snow since it's been a little on the weak side lately, but alas.

That didn't happen.

We did go for a little drive up the canyon where I was able to get a couple of shots of the most beautiful snow! I can't wait to play in it tomorrow. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with your families!

• 6:30 - Alarm goes off, hit snooze
• 6:45 - Roommates alarm goes off, gives me a heart attack, roommate hits snooze
• 7:00 - Alarm goes off, finally get out of bed, look outside, want to crawl back in bed
• 7:10 - Put on every single layer of clothing I own, plus a plethora of socks
• 7:40 - Eat breakfast, put on coat, gloves, scarf, walk out the door, umbrella open
• 8:15 - Walk clear up to the Allied Health Building in blizzard
  
• 8:30 - Endure Patho
• 8:35 - Pop in a Ricola
• 9:30 - Still enduring Patho
• 9:50 - Blow nose, study for midterm
• 10:25 - Pop in another Ricola; tongue is red and breath smells like nasty cherry medicine
• 10:45 - Take midterm
• 11:20 - Look out window....still snowing
• 11:28 - Most miserable walk home of my life
• 11:40 - Soaked to the bone
• 12:00 - Get into warm sweats, sip hot chocolate, and watch Kyle XY
• 12:15 - Over a foot of snow has fallen and still counting
• 1:00 - Look outside, can't even see
• 1:45 - Get a call from school, all afternoon classes have been canceled
• 1:55 - Looks like we could be on planet Hoth. Terrain: Frozen Ice Planet. Affiliation: Rebel Alliance
• 2:00 - Take a nap and dream I'm in Hawaii!