Day 19 of Birthday Month

I just need to write this down - for 30 years from now (when I'm 60) - I can have some sort of a memory.

It's December 19th.  It's Minnesota.  There is ZERO snow on the ground.  The temp is 32°.  Yesterday it was in the 40's.  It's been in the upper 20's, 30's or 40's for the past while, several days, weeks even.

There is no snow in the forecast - we're going to have a brown Christmas.  Do I mind?  Not completely. I like the warmer temps, I don't mind diving on clear roads... but I kind of feel like there should be snow around for Christmas.  I was looking forward to taking some outdoor photos of Christmas lights with snow on the ground. Doesn't look like that'll be happening.

I'll post tomorrow about dinner at my dad's yesterday and dinner with my grandparents tonight.

Work is killing me.  I'm blessed in life, but I'm miserable in my work life.  My daily blogs for this month have been a lot less personal and detailed as I'd like... I just don't have the time.

It's becoming real

While I still can't believe that I'm actually going on a vacation in less than 48 hours, it is becoming more and more real.

Some numbers for you:
97 - percentage of packing I've completed (as of Friday)
19 - current temp in Minneapolis
6 - inches of snow we are to expect today (it's been snowing all morning/afternoon)
73 - current temp in Honolulu
1 - stop between Minneapolis and Honolulu (in Denver)

There is a huge storm coming across America Tuesday night into Wednesday... it's not supposed to effect any place I will be, but I will kill somebody if it has any impact on my flights.

Random v.10.15

Random today:

• I've not blogged about it yet because I feel like everyone else already has blogged about it... but then it hit me; my readers don't necessarily read the same blogs I do... duh!  So I'll tell you a bit about my weekend, last weekend.  The weather people were predicting snow, and lots of it. Generally they are wrong, so I kind of ignored it.  Until I woke up Saturday morning and saw it... ugh.
  Saturday  was the day the family and I were supposed to be moving my grandma 30 minutes North.  Did we cancel because of a blizzard?  NOPE.
  13 people came together, packed everything up (gma was instructed to pack NOTHING as it was already going to be stressful enough for her), load furniture and boxes into 2 enclosed trailers and 3 pickup trucks, drive (in a blizzard) 17 miles up the road, unload and unpack, arrange furniture and have it livable for gma that same night.
  After the move, Steve and I went back to my house and ended up having to shovel one half of the driveway for his car to get in.  The little snowblower we have was not enough to get through the 17+ inches of snow we had sitting there, not to mention the snow was deeper in certain parts due to the crazy ass wind that day!
• Sunday morning, we woke up and tried to snow blow again... and again my little snowblower was not enough.  Did some shoveling by hand.. then went and picked up Steve's dad's snowblower, which destroyed the mounds of snow in my driveway.  Thank God for that.  It would have been a much longer day otherwise.
  I had to shovel my back patio, around my hot tub, by hand on Sunday.  That was not fun and I was exhausted to the core afterwards.  My body was sore for the days following.
• I read this blog of a girl that I don't know... honestly, I don't even know how I found her blog.  I'm not sure how old she is, but she whines like she is 12.  I really want to stop reading her blog, but for some reason I just can't drop it.  Obviously I'm not linking to it... but I just want her to grow the fuck up (I know she lives on her own, so she is at least old enough to act like a grown up, right?!)
• I also found a blog of someone who has been stalking my blog... funny how that works.  Not giving deets on this one, but it's pretty funny to find.  We might have so much in common but I just wish she'd speak up and let me know she follows... I actually enjoy reading blogs of my followers... just sayin'.

• Tomorrow is my birthday and it would be a good day to play along with the Just Thursday posts, because my weekend is going to be BOMB!  I'll do it today instead :)
  Thursday (my actual birthday) - waking up a bit late so that I can hit up Dunn Bros for my free birthday drink on the way to work (they don't open until 6am and I'm usually to work shortly after 6).  I'll work my day with tons of attention because you better believe that everyone at work knows it's my birthday!  After work I'm meeting the love of my life for Happy Hour at Pittsburgh Blue (a delicious steakhouse), then having a birthday night sleepover!  YAY!
  Friday (my day off) - nothing planned for the day, that evening I am meeting up with some friends for cocktails (if you're free Friday night and live in the area, shoot me an email - I'd love to have you there!)
  Saturday - No major plans for the day, in the evening Steve and I are meeting up with my dad and his wife for dinner at Murray's (home of the Silver Butterknife steak) and I can't wait!
  Sunday - I'll be joining my boyfriend for house hunting - should prove to be a fun day!

That's about all I have time for today people - until we meet again :)

How 'bout this weather?!

I have never been a fan of winter but, living in Minnesota, you'd think I'd be used to it by now.  I mean, they don't call it Minnesnowta for nothing!  So last week we had a smallish blizzard type snowfall... early this week it was raining, then right after the rain fell it got cold and it froze... then snowed on top of that.  Tonight, we are due for more snow....


The temperature, you ask?  Right now, where I live, my weather widget says it's 1°.  That's not warm people!!  It's not even winter yet, technically.  


ugh.


I know I have some readers from all over, some just locally here in the Midwest; What is the weather like where you are?  Do you love it or hate it?