Showing posts with label whining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whining. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Sunday


<- Qwest Field today; you can see the snow falling, and where they had to shovel the snow from the yard markers.


Well, I've been a bit under the weather the last few days. I thought I was doing better, so I went into work on Friday and went to the parties, but it definitely caught up with me today. I spent most of the day on the couch alternating coughing and sleeping, while Ray went with a friend of his to see the Seahawks game, as they wanted to see Brett Favre play. They got some excellent tickets from a long-time season ticket holder that wasn't going to make it to the game, due to the snow.

Ray said it was a great game, and said it was so weird to have it snowing the whole time. Above is a picture that he took from their seats. It was Mike Holmgren's last home game, they won, only the die-hard crazy people were there, and most everyone stood up the whole game (and some threw snowballs at the hapless Jets on their way to the locker room). Sounds like a fun game!

It was snowing too hard, and traffic was too bad to come home right away, so they stayed downtown for a bit to wait it out.

For me, I'm wishing that I would have stocked up on NyQuil when I had the chance. Ugh! I hate being sick.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Snow!

After having the "Storm Watch" for the last few days, we woke up to snow today. It wasn't very deep, but it was very icy. They said on the news that this is the coldest that it's been for almost 20 years. Ray and I went out to do a little shopping, and almost did not get back up to our place because it was so icy.

I think out of towners make fun of us because we can't handle the snow. What happens is that it snows, then thaws a bit, then turns into ice. The next day, if it's still cold, it's still ice. Add the many hills that are around this area, and you have a scary situation. It's just not possible to stop on a hill safely at a red light on the ice. I have a small car, so I really don't like driving in the snow and ice. Fortunately, we don't usually don't get a lot of it.

At least we have power! I'm hoping that the East Coasters without power get theirs on soon. I have a friend that lives in Massachusetts that has been without power for a few days now, and I'm hoping she's warm and is going to be powered up soon!