We're in for it now...

[merimask]

I'm sitting here, working too late again as usual, and I hear a rumble and the ambient light outside grows brighter, almost like daylight.  Keep in mind, it's three o'clock in the morning.  I look outside and snow is falling at a pretty steady clip.  When it snows late at night, the sky goes a wonderful glowy orange and you can see clear as day.   Naturally I took pictures.  No flash...this is exactly what it looks like out there.

My street...the haze is the snow.

 

Our cars and the neighbor's tree...


My brightly lit shrubs!  So darn cute...


This picture comes the closest to showing the actual quality of light.   It's all glowy and orangey...


So I guess we are in for it again.  Friday's storm dumped about a foot of snow on us, and this new system is supposed to drop another 6 to 8 inches atop that.  The rumble is thunder, because Lake Erie is still pretty warm which means we're going to get lake effect snow too.  The local weather forecasters can't even say how much we can expect due to that factor, but it looks like we are going to have a LOT of snow falling on us until some time on Monday.  Holy monkey.

In other news; Greg and I went to his company Christmas party.  It wasn't much of a Christmas party...to be honest we all basically met at a bar downtown & hung out.  I feel so weird when I hang out with what I consider to be "normal" people...people who work in an office every day.    I feel like a bit of a freak.  My experience & lifestyle is so far removed from all of the daily worries and grievances of your average person.  I can't really explain it, but I feel like a penguin in a room full of rabbits.  I'm good with people; anyone who has ever met me knows that I don't have confidence issues.  And yet, after a while I just stop trying to "fit in" with a crowd of these folks because I really just can't relate to them at all.  They think what I do is "fun" and "relaxing" and they say stuff like "isn't that nice!  You get to stay home!", and I'm sure they don't mean to be condescending, so I try to explain exactly what I do...and it just never really works.  I wish I had more artist/writer friends to hang out with IRL. 
 

It's so cold here...in the single numbers tonight.  I'm living in a frozen world...

Comments

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I read your beautiful entry...we were both out playing in the snow!

It's getting grim here though; lake snow and since we have a constant 30 MPH wind it's going pretty much sideways. Two feet by tomorrow morning. The occasional thunder & lightning is the freakiest part.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Winter storms are so weird, I agree. Stay warm and safe.