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

[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.