sun seeker
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Humph. I don't think much of the service in this joint!
Isn't winter FUN?
Maybe the answer to all this is just... wait for spring...?
:hug::hug:
Hoping you all have a better day. Gotta run.
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Maybe the answer to all this is just... wait for spring...?
:hug::hug:
Hoping you all have a better day. Gotta run.
Eleanor
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Um. Shimmerz? When the car didn't start, did you say, "OH GOODY! Now I can go take a nap." ?
Yes, by all means you all, be sensible and stay home.
RE; snow on the roof melting... If the drifts are high enough around the house, send people up on the roof to shovel it off. Bring sleds. Sled down. That is what they do at the ski resort where my daughter used to work. She doesn't recommend jumping the sled more than about two feet tho.
I am mentioning this simply because it might not have occurred to you as an option.
Yes, by all means you all, be sensible and stay home.
RE; snow on the roof melting... If the drifts are high enough around the house, send people up on the roof to shovel it off. Bring sleds. Sled down. That is what they do at the ski resort where my daughter used to work. She doesn't recommend jumping the sled more than about two feet tho.
I am mentioning this simply because it might not have occurred to you as an option.
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OMG @Hope4Now , what a disaster! You are more than welcome to take over this thread if you like, or perhaps we can work in tandem, as my car is being towed even as we speak. Sounds like you have a potential swimming pool in your house, which normally isn't a good thing in February. Now that I think about it, it isn't so good during any month of the year, is it? I am so sorry.
@Eleanor, I was all excited this morning because I actually had energy! I was going to go out and get a few things done that I have been wanting to do - just for me. Goddammed Universe! I thank you all so much for having signed @sun seeker 's petition, but apparently they are backed up or, more likely, have pressed the 'ignore' button on my account.
@Eleanor, I was all excited this morning because I actually had energy! I was going to go out and get a few things done that I have been wanting to do - just for me. Goddammed Universe! I thank you all so much for having signed @sun seeker 's petition, but apparently they are backed up or, more likely, have pressed the 'ignore' button on my account.
I love this idea! And after the past 3 weeks of massive storms with more on the way, I'm wishing for the sensible metal roofs they have in VT and parts of Canada! Not very historical but practical! Sadly, even though the drifts and piles are around 10 feet, our 240 year old house is three floors with no way to get to the roof except with scaffolding... or an ancient skylight in the attic that is frozen shut. Argh! I keep comforting myself that the damned place has held up for all these years and will not be destroyed by a few feet of snow and ice. Husband and son are hanging out 3rd floor windows backwards knocking ice down with ice picks.
@scout86 good wisdom. If you wouldn't put your dogs at risk, why you? Stay home. Be cozy! My hub used to live in the twin cities and many friends still there...Problem with being hardy northerners is that we can all get prideful about our ability to weather anything (yes, pun). My in-laws are attempting to fly to Wisconsin today (death in the family yesterday)...and I keep thinking...it's too late to see her, so why don't you wait one more day. But no. To the airport we go today.
@shimmerz, I hope you will take a nap today. And have milk and cookies. Maybe build a snowman if the snow is sticky enough. (I did that last week...it was quite fun, then my dog attacked it which was even funnier). Remember that lovely Robert Fulgham book, All I Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten? Here's #10-14:
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Maybe the secret to life is embracing the chaos...riding it and letting it take you where it will, like how you escape a riptide...go with the currents and don't fight it. Easier said than done, I know. But all this buddhist meditation I've been doing seems to be sinking in. Either I'm dissociated (very possible) or I've achieved some level of enlightenment because at this moment, I'm actually sort of laughing at the absurdity of all this mess. And it goes way beyond my own issues and the weather...! I have to keep reminding myself of the essay I've recommended to so many people (Camus The Myth of Sisyphus)...the meaning is IN the chaos and absurdity.
Ugh. That makes it even worse! Foiled again. :hug: to you. I will not take over the thread.
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:) Glad you're not mad. I'm happy to share the chaos. I think you're my friend in this weird sort of Forumish-way. So my grumbles are really meant to be empathetic.
So here's another one you might get a laugh (of the absurd, chaotic kind) out of. My husband's aged and ill Uncle in VT has called 27 times since yesterday starting at 5:45 AM. He is in a rehab center and is having paranoid delusions that people are coming to arrest him and he wants us to drive up there. (This is not new, by the way, but just an added bonus to the current insanity...all crises seem to come at once...) I'm listening to the conversation right now...you can only imagine.
So here's another one you might get a laugh (of the absurd, chaotic kind) out of. My husband's aged and ill Uncle in VT has called 27 times since yesterday starting at 5:45 AM. He is in a rehab center and is having paranoid delusions that people are coming to arrest him and he wants us to drive up there. (This is not new, by the way, but just an added bonus to the current insanity...all crises seem to come at once...) I'm listening to the conversation right now...you can only imagine.
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Eleanor
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Apparently the Universe thought you should Stay Home. :eek::whistling:
Sending warm and effectively draining thoughts back east....
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The day has gotten better, sort of. Not a lot has changed, but I feel a little calmer than earlier. Determined to soldier on in spite of all of it. Have you heard about your car?
To add insult to injury, a bunch of our friends are currently on a cruise and keep posting pictures of themselves in bathing suits swimming in the Carribbean. I rarely get envious of people, but I felt that way today! On the other hand, neighbors and friends have been quite creative with their take on the storms...kids on beach towels with umbrellas lying on the snowbanks as if it were the beach...lots of people x-country skiing in the streets...a shopping snow day party downtown to support the local businesses...lots of photos of people's creative efforts at snow and ice sculptures, etc. Even the school cancellation announcements have been very funny...heads of schools making music videos and singing "The weather outside is frightful..." on the automated phone calls. All so creative and fun. Reminds me I have to lighten up and find the openings for laughter...
The leaks have stopped for now after many hours of hitting ice off the gutters, but we can't get to one whole side of the house. We have a bathtub full of wet towels. The alarm guy disabled the whole system so it doesn't short out again (hope we don't have a fire!). The cars and sidewalks are dug out so we can get to schools tomorrow. The snow banks are stunningly high. Most of the 2-way roads have room for only one car to pass, so that makes it very interesting. No place else to put snow and apparently we're in for another big one on Thursday night. I think we have close to six feet out there right now. I've never seen this much snow all at once. I am jumping ship and going to my writing group tonight (which hasn't managed to get together since before Thanksgiving). One of my friends has launched her new blog so we're celebrating with wine and feedback, and another has managed to finish a new draft of the epilogue of her memoir, so it should be fun. I'm exhausted, but I think it will be good for me to get out of the house and be distracted by others...especially after hours of trying to support my daughter as she was screaming intermittently at her computer trying to do a programming project for school...and my son and husband who are extremely cranky from all the hard work today.
I hope you're snug and will have a peaceful night tonight. It has been so helpful to have been part of this conversation today...sharing the chaos...has kept me from going off the deep end, especially with several comments my husband has made about things that happened on Sunday night that I don't remember.
To add insult to injury, a bunch of our friends are currently on a cruise and keep posting pictures of themselves in bathing suits swimming in the Carribbean. I rarely get envious of people, but I felt that way today! On the other hand, neighbors and friends have been quite creative with their take on the storms...kids on beach towels with umbrellas lying on the snowbanks as if it were the beach...lots of people x-country skiing in the streets...a shopping snow day party downtown to support the local businesses...lots of photos of people's creative efforts at snow and ice sculptures, etc. Even the school cancellation announcements have been very funny...heads of schools making music videos and singing "The weather outside is frightful..." on the automated phone calls. All so creative and fun. Reminds me I have to lighten up and find the openings for laughter...
The leaks have stopped for now after many hours of hitting ice off the gutters, but we can't get to one whole side of the house. We have a bathtub full of wet towels. The alarm guy disabled the whole system so it doesn't short out again (hope we don't have a fire!). The cars and sidewalks are dug out so we can get to schools tomorrow. The snow banks are stunningly high. Most of the 2-way roads have room for only one car to pass, so that makes it very interesting. No place else to put snow and apparently we're in for another big one on Thursday night. I think we have close to six feet out there right now. I've never seen this much snow all at once. I am jumping ship and going to my writing group tonight (which hasn't managed to get together since before Thanksgiving). One of my friends has launched her new blog so we're celebrating with wine and feedback, and another has managed to finish a new draft of the epilogue of her memoir, so it should be fun. I'm exhausted, but I think it will be good for me to get out of the house and be distracted by others...especially after hours of trying to support my daughter as she was screaming intermittently at her computer trying to do a programming project for school...and my son and husband who are extremely cranky from all the hard work today.
I hope you're snug and will have a peaceful night tonight. It has been so helpful to have been part of this conversation today...sharing the chaos...has kept me from going off the deep end, especially with several comments my husband has made about things that happened on Sunday night that I don't remember.
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