#284

I totally meant to update earlier. I've just been feeling really run down and tired. I think the winter blahs are totally in full force. I had to give up one of my days off this week. Next week looks just as crazy.

I dealt with Valentine's Day by going on a mini online shopping spree. I got some new shirts but I'm most excited about my new pair of Doc Martens. They arrived this week and are sooooo comfy. I feel like I should get some flannel, holey jeans or baby doll dress and rock out my inner early 90's chick.

I tried some homemade amaretto the other weekend. I think my uncle called it stump something. I can't quite remember. Whatever it was called, it was delicious.

I want a jeep.

#283

What is worse than being asked if you have a Valentine?

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Being asked why you don't have one?

#282

The stamp last night at 80's night read 'You Are Beautiful.' For some reason, it really tickled me.

#281

It is currently snowing outside my window. The thick, slushy, wet kind of snow. It is supposed to fall all night for a grand total of 2 to 5 inches. And thus the terror starts all over again.

The friendliness that comes from surviving snOMG '10 is very quickly vanishing. The citizens of Pittsburgh are getting very possessive over their parking spaces. Their parking spaces on public streets. They expect no one to park in their spaces while they leave them vacant to drive around the city. Pittsburghers don't quite understand the concept of public property.

They keep looking at me with looks of disbelief when I say this amount of snow is normal for winter or I don't think that it is the end of the world if we get 2 more inches of snow. They are all wacky. It just doesn't seem real anymore.

#280

Music I can't get enough of lately:

#279

The National Guard.

Pittsburgh is calling in the National Guard to help with snow removal.

I can't even comprehend that. It was just 2 feet of snow. This is so frustrating. Life has literally crawled to a halt

I read an article that encouraged people not to walk because there are reports of plows having to swerve to miss pedestrians and then getting stuck in snow drifts. It is like the entire town is stupid or something.

Today, I picked up my room, found some cash, took a shower, colored in my coloring book, baked a pizza and watched the Superbowl (YAY! Saints!) I am so bored.

#278

It is being called SnOMGpgh or snomaggendon or snopocalypse. I lovingly call it winter. I think we ended up with something like 23 inches of snow. It is really pretty.

I woke up to a phone call telling me work was closed. That was amazing. This is my first saturday that I didn't request off in over six months. I bummed around the house before venturing out to explore and get some food.

The lump in the middle is my car. The lump on the left is a SUV. A guy snowboarded down our road. It was quite awesome.

But the sun came out around 1 pm and things are already beginning to melt. Maybe I wont even have to clean off my car??

At the end of my adventure, I made a snow angel. It felt appropriate.

#277

It is snowing here in Pittsburgh. I think we already have 5 inches and it is supposed to continue until tomorrow afternoon. The city is of course shutting down. Buses have stopped running. Events are being canceled. Will Pittsburgh survive a foot of snow???

#276

Every time. It gets me every time.