Snow and Ice, Oh My

So it's cold here. And there is snow.
Lots and lots of snow.
There has been a significant amount of it on the ground for almost a week now.
It's been a balmy -16 at some points.
My power even went out for 8 hours on Sunday (I ducked out to have tea with a friend who had power and left Chris to shiver with the fur kids). The kids don't like the snow!! I attempted to get them to play with it, but it was a no go (we'll stay inside thanks).
True t0 form in BC everything is in chaos. Power is out all over the place. There are still pockets in Victoria (VICTORIA!!) that haven't had power since sunday morning. Of course the power is out on the gulf islands. Victoria has one snow plow (I think this is actually a true fact) therefore the roads are silly and so drivers are silly. The sidewalks are particularly exciting, with their 4 inches of solid ice (my thighs hurt)
I like the snow and I wish it would stay...but it won't...

(postscript~this post was a bitch. I had to re-write it three times because it just disappeared every time I went to post it, so of course it was way better the first time. You know what it is like to write a big long something, and then it all just disappears. You just don't have it in you at that point to do it all over again (cause you liked it the way it was the first time damn it) This post is way out of date at this point (by a week), though there still is snow and ice on the ground, but I am posting it anyway, if only to get it out of my hair)

For all those interested...

...none of my professors have taken the time to notice my knee high rainbow stripped socks, but my gynecologist loves them, she says they brighten her day!!

Fracking Fantastic!!

If you haven't seen it then your life is seriously lacking...

This is me...not being clever!

Ok, so I've realized why there has been...well let's say less than steller amount of content here of late. I'm trying to be to clever, and really let's face it, I can only pull off clever so much at a time. And frankly most of my cleverness is taken up by school these days...so, I've decided not to be clever, at least here in siren-land. To write something that requires no editing of any kind (or specific memorization for that matter). I am not even going to bother doing a spell check on this post. Yep, that's right folks I can not actually spell. Sad but true (and you all know it).

Current Random Highlights of My Life (both good and sad)

• broke the little nub button on my lap-top and have been forced to engage my hand eye cooridination [sic, haha to bad] learning skills and employ the highly erractic "touch pad"
• I am still terribly in love with my rambow stripped knee high socks that I bought over a month ago...it's the little things.
• I continue to hold the strong beliefe that people who go to the [bathroom, coffee shop, whatever] and leave the lap-top in the [library, lecture hall, random bench] and sitting in plain view deserve to have it stolen EVERY SINGLE TIME!! Take the computer to have a pee with you, trust me it will be happier.
  
• spent large amounts of time and money to go over to Vancouver to a much anticipated concert only to walk up to the door of the venue and read with horor that said concert had been cancelled due to illness; rest of night was spent in abject disapointment watching CSI in a (more than we can afford if there is no damn concert) hotel room
  
• we'll end on a good note and relate that we only have two weeks of school left and then we get a whole fracking month off (with rent paid and everything)

...okay, that was semi-clever...