Winter, Spring, Winter again

We were doing so well with the weather. It was so nice and decent out.
Then it snowed. Then melted. And it's supposed to snow a lot tomorrow.
I'm ready for Winter to be over. Though, then it'll be too hot.
There's just no pleasing me. Unless it's Fall. I LOVE Fall.
Not quite the view from my building, but it is when I go outside and up towards Michigan a little ways.

winter winds

Sorry for the crappy photos. I work with what I have. Which is a camera phone.
So it snowed again. Cause, you know, we were running low on it.

 Also people are starting to save spots with furniture.

From what I've heard from friends not from here, this doesn't happen in other cities.Stay classy Chicago.

barricaded from the snowpocalypse

I'm supposed to be working from home. But since there's really not much to do right now, I've been bumming around and waiting for the snow to at least stop coming down so I can go frolic in it.

Attempted to stand on my front porch. Didn't go so well.

Also, the roof on our back porch leaks a little and we didn't shut the storm windows....lesson learned.

Snowpocalypse!!

When Chicago has a blizzard, we don't play around.
I was convinced I would get blown into oncoming traffic downtown on my way home today. But the good news is that my job said we could work from home tomorrow. WIN. So I'll be barricading myself inside as long as humanly possible.
I'll try and take a picture of the craziness that is the view from my apartment.
Also, I'm trying out a blog project. I'm going to attempt to post every day in February. I've been slacking and gave myself a goal. Fingers crossed I stick to it.

Smithmas 2010

A few days late, but lo and behold, a Very Merry Smithmas!

 

 

My "there's too much tape face".Also new hat!

  

My sister Heather showing off one of the moustache mugs she bought.

 

Intense game of Zombie Fluxx.

 

 Aside from the gift wrap massacre, there was a lot of fake meat and movie watching (Inception, Easy A, Sherlock, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and The Sound of Music.) Basically, awesome.
P.S. Doctor Who Christmas Carol was fan fraking tastic! My life is severely lacking a fez....and lens flare.

A Boldlygo Chritsmas

We named our apartment Boldlygo. This was our Christmas Eve Eve.

Wallace vs. ribbon. Wallace won.

The battle of who could gift in the largest box. Susan won with the massive candy cane one front and center.

British crackers!

 

 

 

 

 

 We kept sticking more on ourselves as the night went on. Blame general yuletide excitement. Or the champagne and beer.

 Moo kitty spent most of the evening sleeping in the gift wrap massacre.

 Pass the pigs. Pretty much the most intense "dice" game ever.

 Time turner put into use....where will they go!?!

 BEST GIFT EVER!

Now I'm off to eat sweets and wait for my mom and sister to wake up. Don't they know what today is!?
Also! SMITHMAS! Doctor Who Christmas Carol is on tonight! The countdown begins!

And a few bonuses I found the past few days.
Trolling the gf on Christmas
What Santa Really Does While You're Asleep
Gingerbread Serenity

HAPPY CHRIMMUS!! Stay warm, safe and full of deliciousness.

Birthmas week: Part 1

Cause when there's multiple Christmas birthdays you have to let it seep into the entire week. Tomorrow is Ashlee and mine's birthday. Thursday we exchange gifts with friends. And Friday I head to my mom's for the long weekend.
Basically, I'm spent yet weirdly excited and awake. I think cause I'm mainly functioning on cookies.

Last year our topper was the Enterprise. The Tardis has proved to be less prone to attacks by cats. Sadly I can't say the same for all my mini bows I put on some presents.

Just some of the mass of cookies Cheryl baked.

Also, found this while out shopping. Still amuses me.

There's always a bloody ghost

Pretty much the best companion books ever.

I also highly recommend Christopher Moore in general. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Clever and hilarious.
Also, It's been snowing all weekend and I've never felt more like a hermit than I did this morning.
So I thought, why not venture outside? Yeah. I made a list.

 

 

I ended up just visiting the library for the first time since moving in last March. This was my haul.

 I actually took a class that Joe Meno taught(Hairstyles of the Damned on the far left) and finally decided to read something by him even though I already have one of his books and never gotten around to reading it. To be honest, when I was in his class, I was a lovestruck Sophomore and knew reading his highly praised books would only make my crush worse. Yeah. I'm that lame.
Now contemplating "adult" tea and cookies cause I'm such an adult.
Happy Monday!

First snow of the season

Contrary to a majority of Chicagoans I'm around and my Rudolph look I sport all every winter, I love snow.
I tried and failed to get a picture of the first snow of the season. But hey, look at this shop I found while out that gets straight to the point.

Also, this.
If Glee ruins Blaine, I'll never forgive them.