Day 23: Dirty Snow

February 6, 2011: It's Superbowl Sunday.  And that is a big pile of dirty snow.  I went to the grocery store this morning to pick up some food for the game.  This is the pile of snow in the parking lot.  There are about a dozen of them scattered around in different places.  The last snow was actually over a week ago, but when you pile it all together to clear parking spaces, you are apparently left with a big pile of dirty snow that doesn't melt. 

Day 20: Spills and Falls

February 3, 2011:  This morning when leaving my place, I stepped off the curb, directly on to a lovely patch of ice and completely ate it.  It happened just as another person walked by.  He asked if I was okay and I shyly said yes,  worried that perhaps he caught it on his camera phone and now it's circulating on youtube.  Either way, the fall was more embarrassing than painful.  You can see that I scrapped up my knee a little bit (right on top of my beautiful ACL Surgery #1 scar).  Later in the day, I went to Crossfit to battle with Cindy once again (Cindy is a cross fit work out consisting of rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 pushups and 15 squats for as many rounds you can do).  This time we had to do the whole lovely 20 minutes of it.  And right at the end, at minute 18 and some change, while I was trying to get off the damn plyo box that I was jumping off to do my 12th set of  jump pull ups,  to the floor to do my 12th set of 10  push ups, I fell again.  Caught my foot, lost my balance and body planted the floor.  Awesome.  (PS.  No comments on the lack of color in my leg, the ashiness of my leg, the roughness of my skin, etc.)

Day 18: Empty Lot

February 1, 2011:  Happy February.  The year is moving by quickly already.  Just thought this was an interesting picture. No rhyme or reason to it.

Day 13: Bama Boyfriend

January 27, 2011: Picture 1 is my bama boyfriend during the storm yesterday. Ask me why he posed like that.  I do not know.  I think perhaps he thinks it's cool. Unfortunately for him, it isn't.  Today, we went out to clean up from the storm and he thought - hey take another dumbass picture of me today doing the same thing.  And thus, picture 2. Anyway, shoveling snow with Thugs is maybe the worst experience ever.  He is OCD about it.  He wants to get every single pile of ice and snow up and out of the way.  I just want to move enough so my car can get out.  Because of his neuroses, after cleaning his spot, he wants to clean the spots next to him, just in case one of them comes out and dumps the snow from their spot onto his.  It's really annoying.  We were out there so long we got stuck helping two other folks dig their cars out.  WTF?! At least I can count this two hour dig as my workout today. 

Day 12: Snow Cluster F*ck

January 26, 2011:    The federal government decided to dismiss people from work 2 hours early at 3pm, right into the thick of the two inches per hour snowfall that hit the metro area.  And because most companies look to the feds for guidance, much of the private and public sectors did the same.  The result - the biggest clusterf*ck ever.  Our school decided to let out at 4pm.  FAIL by my school.  Luckily, it only took me about 2 hours to get to my place (the drive usually takes about 25 minutes).  These are two pictures from my commute today.  I left around 4:10ish and arrived home at 6:10ish.  As you can see it was light when I left and got dark quickly somewhere in the middle.  I was able to snap pictures since we were crawling the whole way.  When I got home I thought my commute was bad.  Then I started hearing from some of my co-workers.  Many of my co-workers had 5-6 hour long commutes.  Really.  FIVE to SIX HOUR commutes.  They were essentially trapped by untreated roads, poor visibility, car accidents and abandoned cars.  Sheer craziness. And even worse, some of them got home to no power after their hellish commutes.  What. a. day. 

Day 4: School Delays

January 18, 2011:  See that ice all over the car?  The ice that took a full 25 minutes to remove? And the ice on the cement next to the car?  The ice that I slid around nearly breaking my ass while cleaning my car? Usually that would be the start to very bad morning.  But not today.  Today we have our first weather related school delay of the year.  So take that ice.