I have a work-from-home option, so I’m taking it. It’s not me I don’t trust, it’s the idiots with 2WD and bald tires. If you drive a Honda Civic, just where the hell do you think you are going to go? Really? It’s a hot mess out there. Just awful. We had to help push an idiot back down the street who thought she was going to get out of the neighborhood in a Solaris. Idiot. You could have screwed people with 4WD from being able to get out in an emergency. IDIOT! What if someone had a heart attack and emergency services needed to get in here? Just stay home! No one cares about your Superb Owl party and your cute shoes and flimsy coat. GO HOME!!!
The plows are working hard but Maryland just isn’t fully prepared for a situation like this and our little five-mile radius seems to have been on the receiving end of Mother Nature’s long-nailed middle finger. I know I asked for snow but I really only wanted a few inches, not a freaking blizzard with two systems following close behind.
When it snowed three feet during the week we in Colorado, no big deal. Life went on. It was hell of awesome! But here, well, I’ll say it again, we just aren’t prepared.
In other news, I made hot wings for Matt because he likes hot wings and he’s been in my ear about them all day. Then I made some hot chocolate for myself. Yum. I am planning to make lemon lavender cookies tomorrow because I want something that tastes like spring. I’m over all of this snow and we’re going to get 5+ inches on Tuesday night and then another 8-12″ this weekend! What the FUCK are we going to do with all of this?
I usually don’t mind snow. In fact, I love it! But in central Maryland this much is just not welcome. In this neighborhood especially. My anxiety and tension run far too high to deal with it. I feel claustrophobic in my neighborhood. We don’t even have a decent sledding hill. We’re just stuck here with our cats, going a little stir crazy.
I’m trying to be patient. If you know me, you know how hard this is. Thank goodness we have a StairMaster, I think I’ll spend some time sweating on that tomorrow and maybe do a little yoga. I need something to put the mellow in me. I have to cancel my Spin class on Tuesday as well. I doubt that anyone would have come anyway.
Whatever, I’m just over it and going to bed now. I’ll feel a little more motivated and relaxed tomorrow.
You know…
I think it was in January 2004 — maybe ‘05, but I think it was ‘04 — I drove back to Chestertown after having spent a weekend in Ohio around my birthday. I got caught in a bad snowstorm, and from Morgantown, WV to Chestertown I didn’t see pavement. (That stretch of the trip usually takes me about 4.5 hours; that night, it took me 12+, and that’s not including the Mt. Vernon to Morgantown part, which is about 3 hours.) This was just before I got my Subaru, so I was still driving the Civic, and, honestly, I felt safer in the Civic in snow than I did (and still do) in my Subaru. It takes next to nothing to make my Subaru skid and start to flip around in ice — even when I’m being super careful. The Civic never did that.
Now, I will admit that the Subaru is far better at actually plowing *through* snow than the Civic; I won’t get stuck, but I really do think it’s easier to lose traction in it. The Subaru has been a nicer/better car overall, but that’s one thing about it to which I’ve never grown accustomed. (Well, that, and Subarus are even more expensive to maintain than Hondas.)
Anyway, I hope you get out soon! My mother said her road is actually mostly clear now (granted, it is a rural road), though she still hasn’t ventured out.
We’re working on it! Anne Arundel County is scheduled to plow our neighborhood on Wednesday, after we get another 5″, UGH! I had to call for a sub for my Spin class but think they should just cancel it. No one is going to come with the freaking weather forecast anyway.
I wish I could be perfectly content to just stay at home but without a fireplace, it’s just lonely and cold in this house. I try really hard to make this place a home but it just never feels right. Then, just as I start to like it, something happens and I loathe it all over again.
I have a few sliding issues with my Outback but not as many since I replaced the busted wheel bearing. My Corolla handled okay in bad weather but it had a manual transmission and I always kept a shovel and kitty litter in the trunk. *wink*
Yeah, we’re due for another “moderate snowfall” (whatever that means, but I’m assuming several inches) on Tuesday and Wednesday. I wouldn’t mind *as* much if it weren’t so hilly around here, but that really terrifies me: especially getting into work, as Kenyon is at the top of a very steep hill. Driving home at 2am is also rather unnerving in icy weather.
I know what you mean about manual transmission. I drove stick before I had the Civic; I liked it most of the time, but it could be tricky in ice.
Thank God for the Internet. You should consider one of those freestanding gas fireplace thingies. Ambiance!