the new ice age

[the_siobhan]

JESUS GREAT HEINOUS CHRIST ON A MOTHERFUCKING POGO STICK IS IT EVER FOOKING COLD OUTSIDE!

This is what I get for being so unsympathetic when other people complain about the weather. "Welcome to Canada" I would say, "Or gee, cold weather in winter, who would have imagined it."

I get minus 30 degrees celcius, that's what I get. With the windchill, that's like about a billion degrees below zero. Enough so that it won't seem to stay outside the house and the power company is worried about outages tonight when all the lights flick on. I'm bundled up in a sweater and drinking herbal teas just for the fact that it's hot, and I'm actually considering washing the dishes just to warm up my hands.

Feh.

On the plus side, hauling boxes is planned for later, and that tends to be a very warming activity. And I actually managed to polish off a whole to-do list this afternoon. Done. Gone. >poof<!

Off to start on the next one. I might get to see the surface of my desk this week if I keep up this rate of productivity.

Comments

You know it's cold when....

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

...you go out to start your car in the morning and not only will it not start, but your hands freeze to the door in the process.

Yup. The pads of the fingers on my left hand have been pins-and-needles all day. Of course, they wouldn't have frozen to the door had the door not been frozen shut and requiring of levering with a shovel to open....

Spring is soon, right?

[lisiblac.livejournal.com]

The front of my thighs froze while walking down Bloor street. The muscles actually began to cramp up as they froze. Ew! So I had to pop into Tim Horton's with about 200,000 other people to thaw.

Sheesh!

[individuation.livejournal.com]

Chicago is not quite as cold, but still winterbrrcold.

I suggest you all move here.
JV and I will take you in.
:)
We're expecting 4-8 inches tomorrow BLEH

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

-5°C here, and calmish winds. I got a spare room with an ethernet jack. (:

[snickerpuss.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't spread that around; you'll have Canadians of all shapes and sizes lining up at your door.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Like *that* would be a horrible thing. (:

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

My fucking nosehairs froze solid this morning, man. My nosehairs. And I'm a chick without too many of them. Oh, the humanity...

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I thought I was the only one that happened to.

Re:

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

Think it's something about being in the over-30 set?? :p

[allezbleu.livejournal.com]

shall never whinge about uk weather ever again

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Now y'all know why I *don't* whinge about the UK weather. (I do whinge about the lack of light, but that's a whole other ball game).

I grew up in the part of Canada where it's -30 to -40 for months on end and if we get really lucky it'll go up to -20 for a few days. For the most part, I found winter in Toronto to be comparatively pleasant.

Add 10 years in the UK, and I don't cope with it quite so well. I think the only thing that stopped me from packing my bags and moving back to TO a couple months ago was people discussing the comparative methods of shovelling snow. That's not something I'm ready to cope with again.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've just figured out who you are!

You grew up in Montreal then? Or Winnipeg? caspervonb used to mock us for being pussies when he first moved here, but this has been the coldest winter in years and even he is starting to bitch about the temperature.

the_axel, otoh, likes the weather here. He hates the drizzle that you get in the UK, and when the temperature finally goes back up to 0 it feels positively balmy by comparison.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

You grew up in Montreal then? Or Winnipeg?

Worse. Regina. But we don't talk about that.

And I've got to admit, sometimes the weather here drives me a bit nuts, but in no way does it make me miss snow.

[benton.livejournal.com]

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