I left my office in the lighthouse this afternoon to find myself in the middle of a blizzard.
I walked out into the parking lot, noticed the snow on the cars, and stopped dead in my tracks. Seriously. I looked upwards at the sky, held out my hands, and realized I was standing in a huge pile of slushy snow.
I yelled, “SERIOUSLY?!” to no one in particular, then went to the gym.
Unfortunately, by the time I left the gym, the wind had picked up and I was being blown all over the sidewalk, while wearing sneakers on slippery pavement. I slid everywhere.
Then I had to walk up FOUR HUGE STEEP GIANT DISGUSTING hills, trying to find decent footing somewhere. At one point, I stood in the middle of my street, swaying dangerously on the verge of collapsing. A car drove up to me. I stared at the car, and the car stared at me. If I moved, I surely would have slipped. Instead, I did a crab shuffle to the side of the road, and managed to make it home without any unfortunate incidents.
I am freezing. If I had balls, I would be freezing them off. My hands are icy, and this stupid 100-year-old townhouse is shuddering in the 110 km/hour winds. I cannot WAIT to see how the rest of this winter will turn out. SERIOUSLY, St. John’s? Are you fucking kidding me? It’s October 14th.
Investing in a pair of these:
HOLD the phone.. you work in a lighthouse? Holy wow that’s awesome. And props to you for going to the gym in the snow! If it were snowing here, you would find me in bed, in 7 layers of clothing, sipping hot chocolate and while running to the window every 2 minutes to watch it…If it even so much as barely ices here in Texas, EVERYTHING gets shut down.. but that only happens like once a year!
Again…You work in a lighthouse? I want to work in a lighthouse but I want to be the lighthouse controller person and live in the lighthouse.
It’s snowing??? Um… you are officially invited to come to Miami where it was 83 degrees today and I wore a tank top and sandals! Seriously! What gives?
Oh and SUPER cool that your office is in a lighthouse??!! That rocks!
Can I reiterate and ask…you work at a lighthouse? That’s pretty pimp.
I guess I won’t tell you that I wore short sleeves today down in north carolina.
Still though, Newfoundland fascinates me. As do newfoundland dogs. Can I be totally blond (true hair color, natch) and ask if yall have Newfoundland dogs up there? hahaha
I’m going to have to agree with the lighthouse sentiment…that is amazing and I am quite jealous.
okay, so I won’t be visiting newfoundland in the winter…eep!
and thanks for telling me about matador travel…it’s amazing…I forsee myself spending many hours on that site.
I fell down lighthouse steps once – it was one of those skinny staircases that spirals all the way up. I tumbled a good few stories. It was sad. But the view was worth it. Don’t come here, it’s cold and rainy, though not actually snowing yet.
i’ve decided that the next chance i get, i’m moving away from this disgusting weather
I am not a fan of the snow, either, that’s why I got out of the east coast and moved to California! I don’t know what I’m thinking, but my boyfriend is slowly convincing me to move to Colorado, where they also got snow this week!
It snowed here last weekend. So fucking inappropriate.
@Carissa: Well, it’s more like an old, abandoned lighthouse turned haunted nightclub turned office building, get it? Not as glamarous as it sounds, but there’s still remnants of the tower, hahaha. ANNND can we PLEAAASE trade places? Oh please oh please oh please?
@Linlah: See above comment, and I want to see what a real lighthouse looks like!!! Which is riduclous, cuz there’s lighthouses everywhere around here.
@Cammy: I can’t believe you just said that, I think I literally just felt my whole world collapse. 83 DEGREES?!!! It doesn’t get that hot here in the SUMMER.
@Nancy: UGHHH, seriously, I don’t understand why I live here sometimes. You’re wearing summer clothes? I WANNA WEAR SUMMER CLOTHES. And yes we have Newfoundland dogs! They’re outstanding, aren’t they? We also have Labrador Retrievers, as Newfoundland is officially Newfoundland and Labrador. But no one really cares about Labrador.
@Megan: AWESOME! Pumped you like it, if you get an account look me up at candicew86. And trust me, wait until the summer to visit here.
@V: Were ya drunk?
@Jagerbomb: Srsly, can’t you do medicine without borders somewhere tropical?
@Abbie: Duuude, stay in California! Love is not worth it!
@J: Seriously though, mother nature is a whore.
Oh man, I hear you….8 months of snow is NOOO FUN! And I’m also glad I don’t have balls, cuz our winter’s would not be kind to em’.
Dude, did you ever have one of those gloves that would turn different colors when you put them in the snow? Why don’t the sell those anymore?
I may have a spare pair of Yak Trax. They totally saved my life last winter. Why did we decide to live in the hilliest part of town?
Just think: when it’s minus 45 there it will be plus 45 here. Now ask yourself, where would you rather be?
@CJ: UGHHH, I have no idea what an AB winter is like, but I hear it’s brutal. Although quite different from here, because we mostly have ridiculous wind and it’s super damp. I hate it.
@Lola: WHAT??!! WTF are those?! I’ve never heard of such a thing!
@KJAX: If you’re serious about the Yak Trax, I TOTALLY want them. Yeah, seriously, getting home everyday is gonna be a mission. I don’t know why I ever bother buying nice shoes.
@Carlo: Please, please don’t tempt me. Winter is already killing my soul. And I don’t have a shovel yet.