+ZERO!!!

I'm so excited today! Not only is it a Friday - quite possibly the best day of the week next to Saturday, but today the temperatures were above ZERO!!! I know it sounds stupid, but I can handle temps until it hits the negative territory - especially if there is very little wind. But this past week has been the coldest week on record in January - natch. It always happens to me. We would move somewhere and everyone there would say, the weather hasn't been this bad in decades.

The one thing I'm not looking forward to, in spite of it being the weekend and on the plus side of zero, is more snow. I'm so flipping tired of snow. I always thought it could be too cold to snow...HA, living in the frozen tundra has taught me it doesn't matter the temp it will snow. It snows so much and it never gets above freezing - so it's snow piled up on top of snow ad nauseum. I hate driving on it - frozen snow combined with exhaust from vehicles creates black ice. So many accidents lately.

I didn't have much of a choice moving here, I needed the job. However, I really did like it in nicer weather. But all the natives lie to you. Winter doesn't last just a month longer...winter is flipping 6 months long! It's been so cold that my relatively new car, Martha - a 2007, wouldn't start on the first crank.

I've been trying not to complain about the cold, at least until February...but I never said I wouldn't complain about the snow. I hate snow. It sucks.