trapped!

So I decided to brave the storm, such as it is now, and do a little holiday shopping on my day off / snow day. Wrong. Although it looks like my driveway was plowed this morning, the asshole street plower guy has totally blocked me in. There is a 4x6' wall all around me. I'm not shovelling that crap, it would take me a year and a half. Supposedly the plow guy for here will come back, but who knows when that will be.

I have to do a little rant now.

This same thing happened at my apartment last winter. The only difference being that the plow guy just never came there. This angered my landlord to no end, but his rage didn't do much to clear the driveway, until he ended up just firing that guy and getting a snowblower, and the guy upstairs would do it. I don't understand these plowing contractors; they take on too many customers. Money hungry bastards. Yeah, maybe with this many you can handle it when we get 3" of snow. The thing is, I don't need you to plow when there are only 3" of snow on the ground. I need to you plow, in a reasonable amount of time, when there are TWO FEET of snow on the ground. Like today. If I had had to go to work this morning, I would have been screwed. One of the few joys of living in an apartment is that you get shit like this done for you. I'm not happy. I'm stuck. I thought I could at least go pick out new glasses today, but even that is a bit of a hike, so I'm just stuck. yarg.

On a much happier, and cooler note, Jenn was on the Sunday Night Sex Show last night! Very exciting!

I made myself a giant steak for lunch; this has brought me some joy on this otherwise sort of cruddy day. Snow days aren't much fun if you're completely trapped in your house. I lived in Alberta for a year and a half, 2 winters baby. We never had a snow day, but we did have 'cold days', where the temp was below -40*. That's cold. And that, my friend, is a NO-FUN day off. This is better than that, but only slightly. If it were earlier in the season, and / or we were spending Christmas at my parents' house, I could do some online shopping. I did that a couple of years ago, I sent everything to my folks' place; it was terrific. Zero hassle. I wasn't quite that on-the-ball this year though. I do have a good list now of what to buy people, so it's just a matter of getting out to shop now.