Tuesday
Jan162007
Crystal forest
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 08:22AM
Well you all failed me miserably. Everyone else in the blog world had a raging success with their de-lurk prompts, but mine sat there at the top of the page for FIVE days while hundreds and hundreds of readers passed by it, and only five people took a second to say hello, four of which are faithful commenters, only one of which was a first-timer. Thank you Teena, and thank you to the other four.
To everyone else... I guess I just need to accept that my audience is shy. You don't like the spotlight, you don't like to be called out. You're like the quiet student in class who has a brain full of great thoughts and ideas, but you prefer to keep them to yourself rather than share them out loud for all the class to hear. You're quiet, you're passive, you're recluse. I can accept that. Or I can try. Unless you feel like sharing one of those thoughts, then just know that I'd love to hear it.
On any other day I might not be so forgiving, but today, today I got a surprise day off and therefore, I'm pretty much willing to forgive anyone for any transgressions. Talk about me behind my back? Forgiven. Steal my ideas and present them as your own? Whatev. Cheat on me with a smokin' hot girl? I'll cut your man parts off and throw them out the window. (I know that would never happen.)
It all started Sunday night when mid-Michigan was slammed with an ice storm.
The kind that comes in as innocent wet rain and leaves everything frozen in a layer of ice. Monday morning I had to go into work because the roads weren't bad, as long as you could agiley navigate around the fallen trees and downed power lines. I got there safely, only to find that the entire campus had lost power 30 minutes earlier. They decided to continue with the scheduled in-service while we all sat in a dark cafeteria staring at a slideshow powered by a generator. Finally at 11:30 they sent us home to sleep, relax, and slide around on the ice. Which makes me a very happy person.
Of course, it's easy for me to enjoy all this from the warmth of my brightly lit apartment, while I heat up some oatmeal in the microwave, watch Judging Amy and fire up my computer. Apparently over 20,000 people were without power last night and still are today, including most of Brad's family. Also including the college where I'm employed. Which is why, when I turned on the tv this morning at 7am, I realized with great satisfaction, that I got to crawl back into bed and sleep until all the ice had melted. Or at least until 10:30.
As a rule, I hate Michigan winters. I hate snow, I hate ice, I hate cold.
One day I'll go into all the many reasons I hate winters here, but for now, suffice it to say, I was thrilled with the unseasonal weather we had all through November and December. Loved the lack of snow, the warmer temperatures, the singing birds. And I dreaded the day that real winter would rear its ugly head and fall upon our happily warm world. Now that it's here, I'm definitely not thrilled knowing that it won't leave again until March, but at least for this one day, this day that I'm sitting at home in my pajamas instead of at a desk in scratchy work clothes, I have to admit: I really love it!
(But just for today. Don't get excited honey. I still HATE winter.)
To everyone else... I guess I just need to accept that my audience is shy. You don't like the spotlight, you don't like to be called out. You're like the quiet student in class who has a brain full of great thoughts and ideas, but you prefer to keep them to yourself rather than share them out loud for all the class to hear. You're quiet, you're passive, you're recluse. I can accept that. Or I can try. Unless you feel like sharing one of those thoughts, then just know that I'd love to hear it.
On any other day I might not be so forgiving, but today, today I got a surprise day off and therefore, I'm pretty much willing to forgive anyone for any transgressions. Talk about me behind my back? Forgiven. Steal my ideas and present them as your own? Whatev. Cheat on me with a smokin' hot girl? I'll cut your man parts off and throw them out the window. (I know that would never happen.)It all started Sunday night when mid-Michigan was slammed with an ice storm.
The kind that comes in as innocent wet rain and leaves everything frozen in a layer of ice. Monday morning I had to go into work because the roads weren't bad, as long as you could agiley navigate around the fallen trees and downed power lines. I got there safely, only to find that the entire campus had lost power 30 minutes earlier. They decided to continue with the scheduled in-service while we all sat in a dark cafeteria staring at a slideshow powered by a generator. Finally at 11:30 they sent us home to sleep, relax, and slide around on the ice. Which makes me a very happy person.Of course, it's easy for me to enjoy all this from the warmth of my brightly lit apartment, while I heat up some oatmeal in the microwave, watch Judging Amy and fire up my computer. Apparently over 20,000 people were without power last night and still are today, including most of Brad's family. Also including the college where I'm employed. Which is why, when I turned on the tv this morning at 7am, I realized with great satisfaction, that I got to crawl back into bed and sleep until all the ice had melted. Or at least until 10:30.As a rule, I hate Michigan winters. I hate snow, I hate ice, I hate cold.
One day I'll go into all the many reasons I hate winters here, but for now, suffice it to say, I was thrilled with the unseasonal weather we had all through November and December. Loved the lack of snow, the warmer temperatures, the singing birds. And I dreaded the day that real winter would rear its ugly head and fall upon our happily warm world. Now that it's here, I'm definitely not thrilled knowing that it won't leave again until March, but at least for this one day, this day that I'm sitting at home in my pajamas instead of at a desk in scratchy work clothes, I have to admit: I really love it!(But just for today. Don't get excited honey. I still HATE winter.)
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Reader Comments (2)
oh wow ~ those are some amazing photos!!! gorgeous!!
By the way I love the pictures. :)