I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.
When we first moved to Spokane my husband couldn’t believe that it got so cold here that this pond would freeze over. And look. It’s frozen over. I think this pond is even ice skated if the ice gets thick enough.
Right after I took this all of the ducks on the other side of the pond started flying over to us, probably looking for bread (this is why it is bad to feed the ducks, people!). It was actually kind of freaky. Like something out of The Birds. And if you’ve been reading this blog for awhile you know that I have a slight aversion to birds, thanks to the nasty magpies that like to swoop down on people in the Monterey Bay area.
I took this pre accident, a couple of days before the real snowstorm. It’s kind of been snowing every day since Tuesday, so now the ground is really, really covered. It’s actually really beautiful, despite the treacherous conditions. I will take pictures of the pretty neighboorhood.
Will also update you on what happens with my car. I’m feeling less shaken-up than I was. Been taking the bus the past couple of days and actually really like it. Thanks again for all of your comments. 🙂
So I’m going through total hell today dealing with my car and some jerk posted some rude comments on my Nancy Grace post.I don’t mind if people disagree with comments or posts on my site, but I can’t stand it when they are rude.
These people have no sense of caring whatsoever. They just spout off at the mouth with absolutely no regard for what somebody might be going through. It’s hilarious that the first part of his comment is:
I can not believe how ignorant a lot of you people seem to be
I can’t believe how ignorant (and utterly insensitive) this man seems to be.
Stupid jerk.
I’m tired. I don’t even want to address this asshole. But I allowed his comment to go through because I don’t want to ever be accused of not letting other people’s dissenting opinions through.
update Dec. 1st, noon: I am going to take the advice of Dianne and Frank and delete this guy’s post, and then I am going to close comments on the Nancy Grace post. I’m so done with that conversation. I’m sorry if anyone thinks it’s rude but I just don’t care. I think it has been well esablished that Ms. Grace is shrill and annoying and that is that. The dissenters have established thier point (rather rudely at times) and I don’t think I need to hear the same argument over and over, espeically if it’s rude. So this troll’s opinion will be deleted.
Thanks so much for all of your comments on my last post. It made me feel much better 🙂
Well, the thing that I was afraid of happened. My car has been totalled. It started really, really snowing at around 4:00 pm yesterday. Right as the evening commute started. So by the time Raf left to pick me up at 6:00 the driving conditions were really bad. We live on a steep hill, and getting down from that hill into town by all routes were trecherous. Raf actually was driving the way he was supposed to, very slowly, not slamming on the breaks. When he started to fishtail a little bit this idiot driver behind him rear-ended him because she was driving waay to close. So they got out to exchange information, and while they were out of the car talking another SUV, who was barrelling down the hill, slammed right into the driver’s side door. So the whole side of my car is totally fucked. But THANK GOD Raf wasn’t in the car! He would have been badly hurt or worse.
So in the meantime, I’m waiting for him to pick me up at work. He calls me up and tells me that the car has been totalled and I kind of started to freak out. I called my mom and she and my step-dad came to pick me up. I stupidly had my insurance cards at home so I needed to get home first to get them and then get to the accident so that Raf could have the insurance card.
They finally arrived and we started up the South Hill to get home. They couldn’t even make it up the hill. It was that slick. All of the cars trying to drive up it were just sliding back down. So we drove a side street for a couple of blocks to try a different street. Same thing. We just could not make it up the hill. It was maddening because Raf was just up at the top of the hill, and and so is my house. We were so close! So we had to drive all the way back to my mom’s house to get thier all-wheel-drive van. In the meantime, Raf is freezing his ass off at the scene of the accident, waiting for the tow truck.
While we were driving back and forth from my mom’s the tow truck finally came and picked up the car. Raf walked home and my mom and stepdad drove me home. The van made it around really good in the snow. We didn’t try to drive up the steep hill, though.
I didn’t get to see the damages to my car. And I didn’t see the people who hit it, either. It’s probably a good thing. I think it would have been too upsetting. And the people who hit my car should be glad I didn’t see them. I would have gone off on them. Even though the streets are really slick, you don’t follow people too close in this weather! I don’t care if you drive an SUV and you think you are safe in your big tank. You still drive carefully.
I’m just really, really glad Raf is okay. It could have been much worse. I mean, a car is just an inanimate thing and it is going to be fixed and everything will be okay in the end. It’s going to be a bitch for awhile with no car, but I don’t think I will be driving in this weather, car or not.
I am running into some interesting characters, working in a public library. For example, just now we had to tell a patron at the listening station that he had to turn down the volume on the machine. We could hear Brittney Spears through the headphones. The guy was really nice about turning the music down, but then he said that when he listens to music it is transmitted to the whole world.
