My friend's go to drink used to be rum and coke. But he wore himself out.

Just like how my husband doesn't drink beer or chocolate flavored alcohol anymore...

My wife used to love flavored vodkas, and then she accidentally got too much one day because she underestimated the potency of jello shots. She hasn't been able to touch harder liquors since.

We had rum & coke that day.

Those were some good memories though.

It was New Year's Eve.

We were playing a board game waiting for it to hit midnight.

We never finished the board game or make it to midnight.

Instead my husband ended up passing out and praying to the porcelain god. 8D

Not a happy Monday! Well, not so bad now, but not so fun this morning when I got up to find my car encased in an ice sheet. I don't mind winter but inconsistent winter is evil. It's unusually warm for this time of year, warm enough for rain, but still cold enough at night to freeze it. Instead of a layer of fluffy insulating snow that I can just brush off an be on my way, I get a textured sheet of ice that laughs at attempts to "scrape" it. After a few attempts I ran into the house (was late by now) to grab a bucket of water that I dumped on the window with one hand, while the other had the scrapper and scraped off the slush in case it tried to freeze again. I need more washer fluid now.

Fortunately I had no errands to run for work today, and spent half an hour after work chipping and prying off the remainder of the ice. I hope nothing important is in my trunk because I probably won't see it until May, or open the passenger door. I decided my heroic efforts deserved Tim Horton's dinner (not because it's luxury or anything, but because I don't have to cook.)

I miss ice.

Ice? Ice?! The only ice that Texas sees is when someone trucks it in.

Also, I plan to keep with the original topic of this thread with this.

Nah, I don't have any frost problems. My husband wakes up first and always starts my car for me in the mornings. So by the time I get to me car, it's frost free!

Another fine example of why I like living in Florida.

I once lived in Florida a few years ago. We lived in the northern part so it frosted every once in awhile. And I also remember the one time I spotted a brown widow in our carport closet. O.O
I let my husband take out the trash after that incident.

Frost and ice aren't so bad. Ice you have to crack off of your car windows, not so much.

As much as I'm not so fond of that song, Salone, every time I come from work on Friday I'm humming it as I walk in the door.

Poor Canadian. :(
A lot of your country is encased in ice right now. =/ I've heard Tim Hortons is quiet good :3 - which reminds me, I need to get my enhanced ID so the manbeast and I can go up to Canada - I love Canada.

People have different opinions. I personally like the soups and steeped tea. Not really a coffee person. That's probably why the Krispy Kreme went down so fast. More people go to Timmy's for coffee than for donuts.

I live in Fort St. John right now, a rural city in North-Eastern BC at the same latitude as Moscow. It certainly gets cold (normally) but it's rarely this wet. Most of the time the snow is so dry it won't even stick to itself unless you add a bit of water. Makes it easy to move but as soon as you do move it it packs into a solid lump that you aren't moving without heavy tools. Living up here for a bit, I am no longer surprised the Inuit have so many words for now. We could use a few of them.

Amusing anecdote (to me), we had a friend visiting from Australia. When she got to the airport here it was under renovations so the plane landed on the tarmac and people just walked from the plane to the airport (this is normal. If there is snow they might put up a tarp to walk under). She didn't understand at first why we were all standing outside the airport. The baggage carousel wasn't working because of the renos, so porters brought out the luggage from the plane to the front of the airport via snow-mobile and carts. Welcome to Northern Canada!

XD

I'm sure she was very confused.

I live in Washington (just south of BC). If I were landing in Northern Canada in the winter I would somewhat expect it to be crazy-ass cold and the appearance of a snow mobile would be a practical choice...but then again Seattle actually gets snow once in a blue moon, so we're not entirely naive to the thought.

There are a couple of us floating around here, Nevy.

I've only been to Seattle a couple times, despite growing up on the coast and living in Vancouver for some years. I would like to go back but right now prospects are better up here. I still prefer water and mountains to prairies and snow, but it's not too bad up here.

I really want to visit the prairies someday. They sound snowy and beautiful. :3

Having grown up around the prairies... eh. There's not really a whole lot to see. When they get snowy, snow is ALL you see. Flat snow all around, all the way to the horizon.

That's good to know I'm not the only Canadian around here. It sounds like we both live in B.C. too :P

Whereabouts are you?

fellow Washingtonian!

enjoying the rain?

I live in a pretty small city. It's about four hours from Vancouver. Maybe a little less...I don't remember exactly. My cousin just moved up where you are.

Something like Hope? (If you'd rather not say, I'll stop trying to guess). That might be closer to Van than I'm thinking maybe. I'm better with names than actual geography.

Better Tuesday. Only frost on the window (thick frost) but I was up early enough to scrape it off and make it to work on time, before having to go back because I forgot to bring some archived files. -.-

I also discovered my rear defrost is functional! I was just a separate button. Yay, me.

.____.

Yeah...I just love swimming to work. >___>

I know it'll be good for the summer, but it's barely been daylight at all the last two days. I'm starting to know what it's like to live way up north. D:

I keep telling people I could get around faster if I hoisted a sail on top of my car and turned it into a boat!

Close! I'm in a city called Kamloops. I'm alright with saying where I live, I just wasn't sure if you had heard of it, since it is a smaller city. And I'm weird. :P

Brrrr frost!

I have a friend from Kamloops!

... Kamloops, TX, admittedly.

Seriously. D:
It's been so bad this evening. I had to drive my manbeast to the massage place cause he was in a lot of pain - he was really needing some help. Thankfully, he got some relief. It poured all the way there and all the way back. T___T
So much water.

Kansas mythology has a man named Windwagon Smith who crossed the windy prairies of the Midwest in a sail-powered covered wagon.

I been drivin' around in the rain all day shopping for Christmas.

water, water everywhere!

My co-worker/pseudo brother took me and my friend out to lunch today. He insisted that it was only three blocks away...the umbrella I had died. XD
downtown Bellevue was fine until you got between the buildings - then you were almost blown sideways.
Needless to say, I gave him crap about it the rest of the afternoon. XD It was really good Thai food though! :D

nice! What'd you eat? I had yakisoba for lunch. Mmm!

Beef short ribs and sticky rice. Super good.

I know Kamloops! A friend of mine is from there. We also used to drive from Vancouver to Fort St. John often as a kid so I have some idea of the places. Van, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope, Quesnel, Clinton, Lilloet, Boston Bar, Prince George, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Taylor, FSJ (not necessarily in that order. Working from memory here). We usually took two days for the drive when I was a kid but you can marathon it in 16 hours if you know the shortcuts). I have family and friends in Vernon and Mission. We're starting to spread out. ;)

@anna claire and ireland

Yum! I love asian food! I had frozen pizza for dinner. D;

@quiet man cometh
Yikes! A 16 hour drive is too long! I get antsy being in the car for one hour!

Ugh - I had pizza rolls and cold french fries last night. D:
I was super tired from work and being at the Urgent Care for three hours with my boyfriend - thankfully he appears to be doing better now, so I'm not too sad about that pizza pocket life choice XD

I'm in Oregon! >3>

But I lived in Vancouver for a little bit!

And and . . . i grew up in Idaho so ._. there's that.

Cupcakedolly lives in uhm somewhere up around seattle -but not - ouo

((I hope I know what we are talking about))

There's a super duper horde of rain outside ouo

Pizza rolls and cold french fries doesn't sound TOO bad...yesterday I was so lazy, I ate half a jar of freezer jam with a spoon for lunch, and for dinner I poured some milk in a bowl of cold, leftover rice and dusted it with cinnamon sugar. It didn't make it taste much better. I don't think I'll ever do that again.