rachg82: (Brennan special snowflake)
rachg82 ([personal profile] rachg82) wrote2010-11-22 10:37 pm

The seasons always change, and life will find a way

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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:

[identity profile] vash26.livejournal.com 2010-11-24 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] rachg82.livejournal.com 2010-11-24 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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.