all this coldness and not enough snow

i feel cheated. it’s so cold yet i’m seeing so little snow. it’s either too warm or too cold to snow. it snowed last friday which was great.

rewind …

on wednesday i had wine at this great wine bar in andersonville. seriously an amazing place. small and comfortable.

on thursday there was an outing at dave & buster’s with a&e networks. wasn’t expecting to have tons of fun, but it ended up being a rather entertaining evening.

friday was rather exciting. it had been sleeting as i was returning home from the previously mentioned outing and that slowly turned into snow as the evening progressed. i woke up friday morning to a decent amount of snow. it was great walking to the train and having the snow fall down around me. by the time i was nearing downtown the snow was just coming down. the subway was closed for a short while so i was stuck on the red train which ran on the elevated tracks. it didn’t end up stopping until i had gotten further south than i need to be. so i had to take the brown train back north to be semi-near work. from the brown/purple station i had to walk several blocks to work (the blue path is my normal path, red path was my forced path through the snow).

it wouldn’t have been so bad had i been wearing waterproof shoes. the curbs near the corners were the worst. as soon as i got to work i had to take off my shoes and stick them on the heater to dry. other than that the snow was great. i wish it wouldn’t have stopped snowing so early in the day. luckily the snow has been on the ground since then. it’s fun to walk around in, it feels so wintery.

that evening i ended up back at the wine bar, but this time for martinis. they were pretty much the best martinis i’ve ever had in my life.

saturday was a quiet day.

on sunday i went to see happy feet. great movie. a bit sad at moments but still great.

that brings me to this week. i’m awaiting another snowfall. it’s getting amazingly cold. i was standing on the platform at the train station this morning and i checked the temperature … an amazing 11 degrees (keep in mind that the high this past sunday was 17). that’s just not right. it’s going to be a very cold winter, but luckily i think it’s going to be quite a fun winter. there’s just something about winter that is so great. there’s just something in the air.

enough of the boring chit-chat. i’m off to bed.

good night.