2 OR 3 FEET UNDER: Day 2 Grousing

Post by Will

February 6, 2010 at 7:35 pm

Today has been absolutely, positively without a doubt … miserable.

Wait, you thought everything was peach fuzz and gummy bears?

Gone are our child-like fancies when it comes to thoughts of snow. Gone are the magical notions that snow is one of the most wonderful things in the world. Snow is a serious thing (especially when you’re measuring it in feet and not mere inches) and frankly, I am personally waving my white flag and inviting the 90° temperatures and heavy-handed humidity back into our lives. As much as I dislike summer and its hot, hot heat, a few days in the snow makes me pine for the good ol’ days (namely, last summer, when it never really hit in the mid-90s like the year before last year, y’know, two years ago).

Certainly, this is another overreaction on my part (i.e. the whole Comcast Fiasco), and this litany of transgressions against the very notion of snow is really addressing the fact we did not have electricity for the better part of the day. But, shoveling is hard work, especially when you really are not using a proper “snow shovel”, having to rely on a small garden spade and when you come in, after a few hours of extraditing your car from a 200 gallon cowboy hat worth of snow (not to mention you have to dig a path to get to your car) you are in that midpoint of being in a sweaty/frozen mess and you can’t defrost in the shower (I know that last sentence didn’t make sense … but that is exactly how everything feels).

Another issue that came into play was a little thing called “Cabin Fever”. We are such a connected culture, I fear that the only time to recognize how much we rely on technology is when we are taken from it (an aside, I did periodically turn on my phone to check up on the random minutiae of the day). So, we were reduced to a few rudimentary, primitive means of keeping ourselves complacent. For instance: reading books, talking, physical labor, laying in bed to keep warm. It truly is a hard life.

But seriously, this day is another reminder of how thankful for the basic items we have. So, be forewarned. Snow might be an exciting concept, but when two and a half feet of it knocks on your front door, you might want to temper your buzz. That is unless it happens to cancel work Monday (fingers crossed).