So it went from record breaking rain fall and a 12 day boil water advisory for a million or so Vancouverites to a winter wonderland. Or winter hell for those who live here because it ‘never snows’ and because of our guaranteed two season only city with year round mild temperatures, rain, heavy rain and showers with some sunny breaks that CAN last up to weeks at a time. Holy I could SO be Tamara Taggart with that report. It is THAT good. And this is my second weather related post.
I love it when it snows in Vancouver. People seriously lose their minds. LOSE THEM. GONE. And then they get behind the wheel of a car. It is like people who have never seen the mountains and then they see the mountains and they totally flip out and want to be one with the mountain or some shit and don’t realize mountains have danger and get eaten by a Bobcat. Granted those people don’t get behind the wheel of a car again.
Also,
SUN = Sun Hat
RAIN = Umbrella; and
SNOW = TOQUE
The boil water advisory was only an issue for I’m sure the exact same people who lose their minds when it snows here. Now that it is over I’ll say I hope the fuck wads who ‘fought’ over bottled water and displayed other episodes of idiocy are ashamed of themselves. Big deal so we had to boil some water. We still had water. Why not spend a few minutes thinking of places, Countries where a child has never even HEARD of the word ‘bottled’ water and no village for miles even has a fresh water source. As far as natural disasters go it was pretty tame, a mild inconvenience at most.
Today it is cold, the snow has stopped and a cold front has moved in. I feel like a pussy. This is where people never believe me that I really did grow up in the North with snow from October 31st till whenever the ski hill closes because I am totally acclimatized and I’m sorry but -6 when surrounded by ocean feels a shit load colder than a dry -20 or lower in the north.
I need to go to Shoppers Drug Mart and get some stuff but the roads have not been sanded, salted or cleared, the city is very low on plows and it is a sheet of ice out my window. If I hear one more idiots tires spinning out I’m going to scream. Less gas more patience people.
Did I mention I LOVE IT when it snows here?
Almost everyone in British Columbia that I know is sick. These viruses are getting really insane. I have been sick since last Thursday evening when my throat got scratchy. Adam has been sick since last Wednesday. I picked it up from him fast. Normally I just get the beginnings of things take some Vitamin C and it’s gone, other than having almost daily headaches that can become debilitating with little or no notice, I hardly ever get SICK, sick.
THIS virus is SO FUN because it starts with the flu and NOW we have full blown head colds. AWESOME. My fever was so high Adam had to go out and get a thermometer so we could monitor it; it was into the 100′s. Even Gus is barfing. The other night I was so uncomfortable and my body hurt so badly I was convinced I had RLS [Restless Leg Syndrome] until I remembered that only people on TV get it and that I don’t have enough room in my life right now for anymore ‘syndromes’ or ‘disorders’.
The worst thing about this stupid flu/cold other than the fever, sore joints and muscles, wet cough, then dry cough, sore throat, sore ears, ridiculous headache, and all the snot AND the watery red eyes [the watery eyes just set in today but they were already red and hurt to open] WE CAN’T SLEEP. Until the full head cold kicked in and the flu part started to get better neither of us could sleep. Talk about frustrating, all I want to do when I’m sick is sleep. Finally, last night I was able to sleep until I woke hacking up a lung at 5:30am and I get up around 7am so I was not complaining after the previous nights in hell. Not being able to play Guitar Hero is so lame I’m not even going to discuss it because I have 14 songs open on hard now. I am in awe of Riss who left a comment saying she battles on EXPERT. HOLY. [IF you are a 24 fan she writes the best after show comments EVER]
AND I get dinged $140.00 by my therapist for missing last Friday’s session because I didn’t cancel in time. SWEET.
As mentioned, coming Thursday: