My favorite snow story goes like this. It starts snowing super hard, we have maybe 4 inches on the ground. My road hasn't been plowed, I'm getting home from work, tired, cranky, and decide that the best thing for me to do would be to go down my hill-road from the top instead of going up it from the bottom. SMRT. So I go up the easy hills behind, just making my way like 10 mph, no worries right? I get to the top of my hill and say "oh fuck" because this hill ends out onto one of the busiest roads in the area, and below that a steep fall into a river. Essentially, I was doomed if I fucked up. So I start going down slowly, using all of the power my new england self had to keep the car together and I lose control. Now, when I say that you're probably thinking "oh shit he flew down that hill" oh no no no friends. I lost control of my car in the slowest way possible. I was slowly circling, ended up doing a 360 over the course of probably a minute and a half, with my car sliding downhill at the same time at a very slow and steady pace. I had enough time to get my phone out, call my mom, and tell her that I loved her because I thought I was going to go off the side of the hill (which was to my right in this case, see there was the death road and fall to the river in front of me, and on my right was the 10 foot fall that would most certainly land me on my head because this is my luck). She laughs at me, looks outside the bathroom window where she can see this take place and then comes down, still laughing, after I've finally stopped. She helps me get my car into my parking space and we both live at least 7 years longer. Huzzah.
We've been having a pretty mild winter so far. Unfortunately, on days where it's 33-30 degrees out, we get freezing rain, which makes it a real pain to drive anywhere
Business travel is a funny thing. During the day, I was doing work pretty much as normal, though at a different desk with different people sitting around me (and Jenny came along for the trip, so she was working at a hotel desk next to me). But after work, I'm like "wait, this is a whole different country with different things to do!", so we would go do touristy things and come home late. It made for a pretty exhausting experience at times, but overall I had a great time and would gladly do it again.
DID YOU SEE ELLIOTT!? I'm extremely jealous of business trips that people go on. I like traveling for the most part, I'd love to have a job where I spend a week in Europe, even if they were mostly 10+ hour days.
Also I'm wearing a t-shirt. Florida is funny like that. It was in the high 50's last week, this week it's in the 70's. OuO. fml I could really go for some more of them 50's to be honest.
Spend some time in weather that is below 0 for a while with wind chill factors making it feel even colder. It puts 50s into a completely different perspective. I was pretty happy to see 30 degrees and higher lately. It's quite warm!
"Spend some time in weather that is below 0 for a while with wind chill factors making it feel even colder. It puts 50s into a completely different perspective. I was pretty happy to see 30 degrees and higher lately. It's quite warm!"
The pumpkin field scenario sounds lovely and I suppose I can understand the desire for actual season change over the course of a year, but saying that 50 is great compared to negative temperatures with colder wind chills just makes me shiver! BRRRRRR!! No thank you, will gladly pass on that.
Wouldn't 70 sound even nicer if you're surviving those temperatures every winter??
70 is great too! I'm sure I'd feel differently if I grew up in a warmer climate, but 50 and 60 degree weather is my absolute favorite. I can't even sleep when I'm too warm, so winter and fall are great for me.
That is an excellent activity anytime if you ask me. Part of me thinks two feet of snow would be awesome, but the other remembers I have a long drive to and from work every day and a pile of snow like that would shut me down in a pretty sad way.
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IN LONDON WHERE I AM ON A BUSINESS TRIP OH MAN LEDE BURIED
Still, Britain seems like it'd be a neat place to go someday.
Also I'm wearing a t-shirt. Florida is funny like that. It was in the high 50's last week, this week it's in the 70's. OuO. fml I could really go for some more of them 50's to be honest.
Wat. But... why? What could possibly be better about 50 degree weather over 70 degree weather?
Speaking of which it was a gorgeous weekend here, went hiking in shorts and it was lovely.
The pumpkin field scenario sounds lovely and I suppose I can understand the desire for actual season change over the course of a year, but saying that 50 is great compared to negative temperatures with colder wind chills just makes me shiver! BRRRRRR!! No thank you, will gladly pass on that.
Wouldn't 70 sound even nicer if you're surviving those temperatures every winter??
Well, at least my mom made chocolate chip cookies. That is an excellent snow day activity right there.