Spotlight on...: Snow!

Helloooo from the middle of a blizzard!

I woke up this morning, already not happy since it was 7am, and Simon texted me to tell me 1 to wake up and 2 that it was really snowy and windy out! I didn't really believe him.. How bad could it be?? 

Well I was shocked when I went into the bathroom and looked out the window! It really was blizzardy!! Needless to say, this did not help my mood any. I checked the university website before I left for class to make sure that I still had to go! As of about 7:30 this morning I don't think any schools in Ottawa were closed, but the school buses weren't running. I made it to my bus (shucks) and made it to class, although the bus did slip/slide a couple times. It was worse on the way home though, it seemed that every time the bus slowed to stop it slid a bit! I think the worst part was walking from the bus to home. It's not that cold out (-13) but the windchill makes it -25 and the snow yuck! Just blowing everywhere! My scarf was covered in snow (as in the picture below).

My boots as I walked up our driveway (on my way home)... there were no traces of my foot prints from earlier this morning! 

 My scarf as I was waiting for the bus! The snow hasn't been this blowy yet this year! 

This was the scene as I was waiting for the bus... You can see a faint building in the background... well just to the left of that you can normally see the peace tower at the Parliament buildings... but not today! I was kind of disappointed that you can't really see the amount of snow falling in my pictures, but you can see how white it is everywhere! As I waited for the bus it also  hit me how quiet snow is. If this was rain it would be just pounding down and you would definitely know its raining before you woke up! But with snow it just falls quietly! 

I shoveled the sidewalk and stairs in front of the house about an hour ago, so I'll keep you updated as to how much snow has accumulated since then! (I only shoveled so I could do this, not cause I like shoveling, plus what's the point of shoveling the stairs and sidewalk and not the driveway??)

Hello Winter!

Today feels like January... winter in Ottawa! 

Its currently... -17 (1pm), not bad, but it was -24 (-29 with the windchill) when I left for class at 9:30am!  brrr!

We had a snow storm on Saturday and were supposed to get 20cm. I don't know how much is actually out there, but I do know that on Saturday I shoveled (half) the driveway cause Simon was out and I thought it would be nice for him to come home to a clear drive..  I went inside when I was done and by the time I went out about half an hour later the driveway was covered and Simon wasn't going to be home for another half hour! He said that the only reason he knew I had shoveled was that there were 2 levels of snow on the driveway!

This is Sophie and I heading to Michael's through the snow. It was really funny, she kept making cracks about how nothing will keep us from scrapbooking "nor wind, nor rain, nor blizzard"

The worst part was getting our rolling items to the store, I think may have damaged the bottom of my scrapbooking tote thing! The snow just kept piling up, it was like I was shoveling the parking lot!! Anyways we made it to the "Crop night" where we got to scrapbook and use Michael's tools, like the Cricut! That's why we went... for the Cricut! We were there for 5 hours too! What better to do on a blizzardy day! 

 This is me bundled up to go outside... It is officially wear-tights-under-your-pants weather! I was bundled really well, but I find that my things and knees (between my boots and jacket) get really cold, as well as my (face) cheeks and nose! I try to duck my face into my scarf, but sometimes I need to breathe...

Okay now to do homework... I have constant guilt about not doing enough school work...

Old stuff a.k.a snow

I was downloading the pictures off my phone and I found theses guys that I wanted to share...


This is a freak snow storm.. maybe not so freak since it was winter in Ottawa... but I left work and there were a few flakes falling.. by the time I got off the bus (maybe 10 min later) a couple blocks away it was blizzarding!! I could barely walk I was being blown away, and my hood wouldn't stay on!! bbrrrrr!! Makes me cool off a bit in this 30 some degree weather!


I was so excited when we saw this.. maybe a bit scared at first, but Simon explained it to me... It's a big machine that eats the snow piles off the sidewalks/side of the road. It poops it out into a truck and takes it away! We were lucky to see this one night after Simon had picked me up from work, since we live downtown and all and snow is yucky downtown :p


I guess the theme of these older pictures is snow! This was about a week before we moved to our house (the house in the picture is the apartment-house where we used to live) We were not very happy that it might snow when we wanted to move! Moving in the winter is not fun!!!

That's all folks!