The seasons always change, and life will find a way

[rachg82]

Oh, Portland. Is there ever a time I love you more than when it snows?

No, there's really, really not.

*sits back with popcorn & waits for the city-wide meltdown to begin*

I love that for the past day my Facebook newsfeed has been overrun by people obsessing about ~who's seen the snow yet~ and ~when's it gonna arrive~ and ~OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!~ (okay, not really that last part, but whatevs).

I love that I knew it had finally arrived in my part of town because of the sudden sound of kids playing/screaming outside at ten o'clock at night, to which I reacted like "Wait a second. Did I just hear. . .? Why would there be? Am I tripping?" before I remembered the forecast & was like, "OH RIGHT." Heh.

For funsies,

IT BEGINS:



Haha. SNOWPOCALYPSE 2010, MY FRIENDS. Pray for us & our anticipated three inches of deadly frozen water.

And, just for the Hell of it, here's me getting all festive with my winter snow cap:



It's frakkin' cold, y'all.

(*edited to add: I just realized something else too. Remember in August, when I was trying to remember reasons to keep going? And one of them was to walk through the trails by my apartment in the snow? And that's why I set the end of this year as my goal? If the snow sticks, I'm definitely taking a walk over there tomorrow. I still get suicidal urges, so it's not like ~ooh I'm all better now~, but it has to count for something that I'm still here & will be alive to do that.)

In other news, I've been having & seeing some of the best/most engaging conversations over at bones_ga the last few days. To any of you who are feeling disillusioned/saddened by season 6, I definitely recommend hopping on over. It's been doing me a world of good.

I'm going to try to go work on my fic now--I've been slacking on it the last few days like a lazy lump on a log--but in the meantime I'll leave you all with a song to get you in the mood for the season:

"Erykah Badu - Next Lifetime (Live)" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[nomnivore.livejournal.com]

It must be "Season Change" day, because it's our first really hot day down here. And my air con and shower aren't working :(

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Meh, it's all turned into ice & frost now. Stupid meteorologists, they're never right. I want my snow!

Agh, no shower during a heat wave is bad news. I can deal with no AC (I don't have any), but cooling off & removing the stink is a must.

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

I had to scrape my windshield this morning. :( What is this fuckery?

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Jack Frost nipping at your nose?

Hee.

[crystalcazzie.livejournal.com]

Snow! I love snow!

The Met Office says we might get some here later this week. Of course it'll probably be a tiny flurry that disappears instantly though.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Indeed. The snow likes to mock us here by turning into ice & watching us spin around in our cars. It's equally funny, but less pretty. I want snow!

[lytab5.livejournal.com]

I love this song and I love looking at your pics. :-)
We had the first snow flakes today, too but they didn't stick yet. (I love you, snow but please take your time.)

Also, AWESOME cap! :-)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ♥

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

I think this entry is relevant to your interests: http://community.livejournal.com/joyunconfined/21883.html

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW. A+, my friend.

[vash26.livejournal.com]

I love snow, but I guess we had enough snow to last ten years last season. I hope it'll get really cold though so we can go skating, yay! Previous winter, and the one before that I was pregnant, so I couldn't join in on the fun. Yay, for not being pregnant!

Good luck on your fic.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

It only snowed once here last winter, so I still feel like the weather owes us. The east coast got totally spoiled with its weeks of torturous snowmageddon. Heh.

Oh man, ice skating + me = disaster. I just inch along the sides like a toddler.

Good luck on your fic

Thank you! My muse hit a brick wall, but last night I spent a few hours going back through what I'd already written, editing it & adding more things, and now I feel like I'm back on track.

[sumpta.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to get snow and the start of a long cold period by the end of this week too, but I'm less excited than you are! I haven't recovered from the trauma of last winter... snow's supposed to be really rare here, so we're not adapted to it. My shoes sure as hell aren't, can't even recount the number of times I fell.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Snow's semi-rare here too (some winters we don't get any, and when we do it's usually only one or two incidents), but that's why I get so excited over it. Heh. Portland has a reputation for spazzing the frak out when flakes fall, which is incredibly entertaining on a schadenfreude-level, and it generally lasts a short enough time for me to appreciate its pretty-ness without getting tired of it. A lot of people here though aren't quite so joyful when it happens though, hee. The reaction is more like, "noooooo!" Probably because they drive & I don't. Ha.

[torigates.livejournal.com]

You look so cute!

I love, love, love that song. It's one of my favourites, even though I listened to it on non-stop repeat after my ex-boyfriend and I broke up. It still always makes me think of that.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you!

Figures I manage to post emo songs without even trying, ha. I'm sorry!