Proof that I did something to piss off God

[wook77]

Dear Mother Nature,

Whatever I did to piss you off, I'm completely and totally sorry. I didn't mean it.

Love,
wook

Dear God,

I'm sorry for taking Your name in vain. I'll probably do it again but it doesn't lessen how sorry I am.

In addition, I promise to start going to church more regularly. Or is it that I actually stepped foot into a church on Saturday that you cast this blight down upon Arizona?

A sign for which one caused snow in Arizona and I'll do the opposite. Promise.

Love ya,
wook

Hell Arizona has frozen over. We're one big blanket of snow and ice. Below the cut is a picspam from last night and this morning. It took me two hours to get in to work because asshat morons down here see a snowflake coming down and freak the fuck out. Then, they closed every bridge. Then, the radio announces the bridges are open and yet, I sat staring at one that was CLOSED for half an hour. Thank God for ficlette keeping me sane in the car. I only said 'fuck' about ninety times during our phone call.

Actual conversation from this morning with my neighbor (we'll call him 'bob'):

wook: *scrapes ice off windshield using newly found ice scraper (I used a cd case the last ice we had)
bob: Whatcha doing?
wook: scraping ice off my windshield *thinks err, duh?*
bob: whatcha using?
wook: an ice scraper
bob: I've never seen one of those before
wook: *goggles*
bob: well, I've seen 'em hanging up in Pep Boys but never actually seen one being used. Does it work?
wook: um, yep, like a charm.
bob: wow, I'll have to go get me one.
wook: don't bother, you can borrow mine.
bob: how do I use it?
wook: nevermind, I'll do it for you. *scrapes bob's windshield*
bob: wow, that's handy.

My packrat tendencies have now been redeemed. Everyone LAUGHED when I saved this stupid thing. I boxed it up over 3 years ago and just found it last night. My timing is excellent.




It's started coming down.


More snow coming down.


My grill is fucked.


Arizona "slushyman"


my poor car


my sister thinks she's funny


she gets to park under a tree and thus doesn't get nearly as much snow


but she still had to take my mum's car into work cause hers wouldn't run this morning. *pwns*


snow


palm trees with snow


cactus with snow


more of the devil's white shit


more proof that god hates me


pretty mountains or they would be if I didn't live in ARIZONA AND HATE THE FUCKING SNOW

Comments

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i'll gladly take all that snow off your hands! we're supposed to get snow tonight, too, and i'm all YESSSSS!!!! in anticipation :P.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I hate it, hate it with a passion. Stupid snow.

They don't even sell rock salt down here so people are salting their walks with table salt. It's hi-freaking-larious.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Consider this snow starved brit exceedingly jealous. Even Draco's pissed off. *points* The mountains look spectacular to me. *wanders off to pout*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

The mountains are pretty but they're covered in snow *blech*.

You can have it. My feet are freezing and it took me 20 minutes to find socks this morning. I miss my flip flops already.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Flip flops in January? The mind boggles.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

This is the first time in over a year that I haven't worn open-toed shoes or flip flops. It's normally around 50 here and that's good enough for me to wear flip flops though I have a sweatshirt and jeans on with it.

this (http://pics.livejournal.com/wook77/pic/00005c0g/g1) is how I normally go around in the winter.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Despite the lack of snow I have my sheepskin lined slippers keeping my toes toasty, and my Arran jumper on to keep me warm.

Is it still the slashfest deadline today? I'm finally bashing out the prologue thingy.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I don't even own a winter coat or gloves. I found a hat last night but then I promptly misplaced it.

Yep, tonight at midnight EST for slashfest.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

I don't even own a winter coat or gloves

I didn't realise Arizona was so warm in winter. I have 3 coats, 2 fleeces suitagle for mountaineers, thermal hats and gloves. What I don't have is chuffing snow!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

It's in the fifties during the day at the coldest, normally. At night, it gets cold but I try to be in my nice warm house by then. When I woke up this morning, it was 24 degrees F.

I gave away all my coats and such when I moved away from Pennsylvania, thinking I wouldn't need them. I'm lucky I decided to hang onto that ice scraper for memory's sake.

I do have thermal underwear but that's for the rare occasions when I go camping.

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

Sorry but my stomach bug has got the best of me. I'll just have to accept that I failed. *goes to bed with sick bucket*

[archon-mentha.livejournal.com]

We just got dumped on, hugely. But we expect that around here. These pictures make me sad because if I can't daydream about being someplace like AZ and not getting snow, then there really is no escape...

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there is no escape *woe*. I'm such not a happy camper. I shall just dream of exactly what's in your icon.

Today is the first day in over a year that I haven't worn flip flops or open toed shoes. It took me 20 minutes to find socks and then another 10 to find the one pair of boots I own.

[best-of-five.livejournal.com]

so it would be inappropriate to say that cactus with snow is possibly the coolest thing ev0r??

awww, -hugs-

[wook77.livejournal.com]

You suck.

Yeah, it is kinda sorta cool if you didn't have to live with it. Stupid Arizona. Even stupider snow. *kicks it*

[macheteprincess.livejournal.com]

I've been praying for weeks for it to snow here. I miss Eastern Canada winter, I was used to the black ice and the 7 foot snow drifts...Not this 17 degree C weather :S

Trade you?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Definitely be willing to trade you! I miss last year's winter. It was in the fifties at the coldest and that was so very lovely. I moved here to get AWAY from snow, not to have to deal with it and people that have never seen it before.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Wow. You know, I didn't grow up in a place that got snow, so it's always held a bit of fascination for me.

One year back in the 90s (when we lived in Tucson) it snowed on Easter Sunday. We'd had a party the night before and a handful of way-too-drunk-to-drive friends had crashed overnight, so the next morning we were all standing in the living room looking out the windows and thinking, "Are we still drunk?" It melted by the afternoon, but it was CRAZY to see snow in Arizona in APRIL.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Growing up, we lived out in the country and our driveway was a quarter of a mile long so we used to have to plow that every snowfall. I hated when it was my turn to plow the driveway and shovel the walks.

My coworker was telling me about that! She said her kids thought she was crazy and/or drunk (*snirt*) to be claiming that so she had to send them photos of it.

We're supposed to get even more snow today, up to a half an inch. I'd rather go back to "normal" and get away from this stuff. *blech*

[yodels.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're getting more winter than New England is, but I'm not envious, I'd rather not have any.

♥

[wook77.livejournal.com]

My sort of reaction completely *nods*.

*hates on winter* Where are my 100 degrees? I want them back!

[hambares.livejournal.com]

I have to laugh. Every year my parents-in-law head to Arizona to escape the Minnesota winters. To funny that they will have to deal with snow anyway! I am sorry you had to scrape ice though. A CD case is an excellent idea when you are in a pinch. It is hard to imagine anyone not knowing how to use an ice scraper. Good for you! But I have lived in Minnesota for (yikes!) 25 years and ice scrapers are standard issue upon successfully completing drivers training.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Flagstaff is getting hammered right now but then again, we barely acknowledge them as part of arizona because they're so different from the rest of the state.

I hadn't really thought not knowing the ice scraper was possible but I've been proven wrong. I had like 10 when I lived in PA but now? They're normally unnecessary. The CD case was fairly inspired *beams*.

[passthesky.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous. It's supposed to snow here, but it doesn't. Augh.

*stares at the pretty mountains*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

You can totally have it... if I could box it up for you, I'd ship it, promise!

That mountain shot is actually out my office window. It is pretty if it wasn't so f'in cold and miserable.

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

*jealous*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

*pets* I'd give it to you if I could.

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

<3 I have this 'make your own snow' stuff... but it isn't the same.

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's more than we've gotten here all year - though Saturday night - or maybe it was Friday? - we got a dusting that covered the cars in the parking lot. It was gone by morning. They're saying snow tonight, but we'll see.

Still, at least it looks pretty! The mountains in particular. Really - that IS pretty. Though palm trees and snow is very very weird.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're calling for snow tonight here as well... ick.

It is pretty, actually. It's all misty and stuff right now, too but still, I'm here for the warmth, not the snow. I don't mind looking at it but I hate having to live in it.

The palm trees are freaky liekwhoa. It's all the palm trees, too and we have LOADS of palm trees so it's everywhere.

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

*has visions of palm trees shivering in winter coats*

Just think - 50 years from now, you can sit at the bar and nurse your Guinness and tell all the young whippersnappers tales of Hot Gay Porn the Great Arizona Snow of '07. :-P

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Snirt, especially as "the great arizona snow" is 1/4 inch.

Yeah, we're all shivering, I'm even in boots and socks and my feet are STILL cold.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

In Toronto, we always get snow (although it was late this year), and I always bitch about the snow and wishing I lived somewhere warmer. DH and I usually have an annual "let's move out to San Francisco/LA/Hilton Head Island/Bermuda" conversation.

I've never seen a cactus before. Definitely not one with snow either, so it's definitely my favourite pic. Do you get snow every year? Or is it rare? It's weird, because this has been an unseasonably warm winter here.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Snow is very rare, at least in Tucson and Phoenix. We're normally in the fifties about this time of year.

I've plenty of pix of cacti somewhere around here :). We have WAY too many. That one, though? That's only around Tucson, really. It's considered an endangered species.

[neekbreek.livejournal.com]

I will go to Arizona and steal all the snow and bring it back to Canada and frolick in it. Just for you.

~first comment~ since I added you. ;D Bettcha don't know who I am!! ~sneaky~

[wook77.livejournal.com]

You can totally have all the snow you'd like.

Um, crap, I'm lurking in your journal and I can't say that I've put it together... though with tdr and wtf... GAH, can't place you.

Hint?

[neekbreek.livejournal.com]

okay you are close!! Through TDR, not WTF.

Uhmm... :D icon?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PIPPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI HI HI!!!!!!!!!

[neekbreek.livejournal.com]

!!!! :D :D :D

YAY!!!!!!!

I am grinning like an idiot, I don't know why!! HI!!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm grinning like an idiot myself!

HI!!! We totally need to get those boys talking again!!!!!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

Hi. ♥

I have nothing interesting to add to this but wanted to say hi.

*helpful*

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

I HAVE BEEN SCRAPING MY CAR EVERY MORNING FOR THE PAST MONTH. SUCK IT UP D:

Er.. I mean.. Sucks to be you. >.>

*RUNS LIKE HELL*

[dontbe-vain.livejournal.com]

Well, you wouldnt like it here in Ottawa, thats for sure. Hahaha. We usually have 3-4 feet of snow by now but Mother Nature has shafted us for 10 cm. The worlds biggest skating rink isnt ready for skating yet. =(

[ficlette.livejournal.com]

LMAO





I am rolling all over the place. Seriously, you got two snorts on that one. Ooooh man, too too funny. :D

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

Your co-workers called in for that amount of snow??? Dude! Okay. To be fair, I have always lived with snow. In the winters, that is. But, like, lots of snow. I do understand that places that aren't accustomed to having snow in any amount get a bit freaked out by it. Where I live, a "blizzard" means over two feet of snow, not two inches, and I've never in my life had school cancelled because of snow (the cold, though, once), nor had that considered an acceptable reason to miss work - unless you were out of town overnight and the highways haven't been ploughed yet. :P

Sample pictures, just for fun. I found them on google, but they're from my city. :)

Car buried in snow:



Sidewalks before the ploughs came (note how the guy walking isn't wearing mittens or gloves, lol):



Which is not to say that the snow, in any amount, is not a bitch. It most certainly is. *hugs*