Looks like I chose the best day to start my vacation. I'll bet the girls at work are grumbling about it right now...
Apart from the general traffic carnage and the physical strain from digging myself out of the house, I love winter. If people hated winter as much as they say they do, then what the hell are they doing here? This is Canada. It's cold here. Get over it.
I think it's been 6 or 7 months since I've gone climbing. I miss it. I've had a couple of excuses (busy at work...all my climbing buddies are gone...etc.) but I have to admit they're not really good excuses. I'm going to try to get in as much climbing as possible in the next two weeks. If I'm going to be attempting ice climbing, then I'm going to need all the help I can get.
Do you like the smell of a camp fire? I love it. Don't know what it is exactly, but it's sort of soothing, very natural. Guess what I found? Candles that are campfire scented. Can you believe it? I bought them immediately and gave them to Emily for Christmas. Why? Because the last time we went to the One-of-a-Kind show, she was joking with one of the candle merchants about making a candle that smelled like wood smoke. And what do you know? Someone has already done it! But I hope it doesn't end up smelling like her house is on fire. That would be considerably less than soothing.
"The lamp is burning low upon my table top, the snow is softly falling"
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Sunday, December 12, 2004
30 Seconds
Do you find it difficult sitting through the 3+ hours of "It's A Wonderful Life"? I know it's a classic holiday movie, but I have never been able to watch the entire thing from start to finish. Good news! Now you can go here and watch the entire movie in 30 seconds...re-enacted by bunnies.
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Nature
It's frickin' freezing...
That being said, you can still find some really interesting scenes of nature. For example, I was driving along the lake shore this morning, and the wind was whipping everything around, especially the water. The whole lake was covered in white caps, something that I don't get to see that often. Giant waves crashing over the breakers and the rocks. Reminded me of the ocean, something else that I don't get to see very often. Beautiful and powerful at the same time.
On the other end of the spectrum, I witnessed a gigantic swarm of pidgeons (I know it's the wrong quantifier but holy crap, there were a lot of them) clustered on the side of the road and either fighting over a morsel or quite possibly pecking something to death. Kind of scary.
"Jealousy, turning saints into the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis"
That being said, you can still find some really interesting scenes of nature. For example, I was driving along the lake shore this morning, and the wind was whipping everything around, especially the water. The whole lake was covered in white caps, something that I don't get to see that often. Giant waves crashing over the breakers and the rocks. Reminded me of the ocean, something else that I don't get to see very often. Beautiful and powerful at the same time.
On the other end of the spectrum, I witnessed a gigantic swarm of pidgeons (I know it's the wrong quantifier but holy crap, there were a lot of them) clustered on the side of the road and either fighting over a morsel or quite possibly pecking something to death. Kind of scary.
"Jealousy, turning saints into the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis"