15 posts tagged “weather”
Today was a brisk kind of day. It got to be about 55 degrees, which was fine in the sun, but once that went down, burrrrrr.
Paisley & I went over to hang out with Elysha, Scott, Abby, and Oreo. It was a good time. There was ice cream, dog park, walks, adorable baby noises, and dinner. Everything anyone could ask for on a weekend.
On the way home last night, and again tonight, I drove past the steel mill. One day, I'm going to pull over and get some pictures. It's so beautiful there at night, especially when it's cold. The sky is a dark navy blue, the smoke is in the sky, the lights are on, and it's lit just right. I see it, and for some reason I feel like it's going to be okay. I searched online, and am shocked that no one has taken the time to photograph it at night. It's amazing, and now it's on my list of things to accomplish.
Now we're back home, and it's cold. The house got down to 50 degrees (the low is 35 tonight), so I finally turned on the heat to get it a little warmer. I'll use that to get going, and then I have my two little space heaters on. I forgot how much I love the smell of the heater in the car. Every year around this time I start to feel like I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. Maybe this year I'll be right.
It was in the low 70s again today. Right now, according to the dashboard, it's 63 wonderful degrees out. Windows are open and air is circulating through. It'd be a great night for a bonfire. I wish they made a candle that smelled like a campfire. And roasting marshmallows. Maybe they do... I should look into that.
In addition to the nice weather, today was pretty eventful. Took Paisley to play at Jessie's while I went to the book fair. They played at the barn, and I strolled isles and isles of used books for mega cheap. Escaped after spending only $3.20 on a book, 2 pattern packets, and 4 or 5 cooking booklets (like the kind Pillsbury puts out).
Had pizza. Headed home.
And tonight has been full of spinning and watching Disney movies. The weather seemed like a great tie in to "The Little Mermaid" - so I watched that and spun up about 3 oz of fiber. Now I think I'll put in Nemo or the Fraggles and spin up the rest. I'd like to go through all 8 oz tonight, but I'm doubting I can get that far. We shall see...
The expanded Target has half the side of one isle devoted to different varieties of peanut butter. I got some white chocolate peanut butter. I had it on a sandwich today with honey. And it was AMAZING. So crazy good. Worth every penny.
Also, the weather has turned to lovely fake fall miraculously. Usually late August is painfully miserably hot, in the 100+ degree days. But, today was a mere 75 degrees. And, as I type this, it's 65! It's a windows open night for sure.
Tomorrow is the book fair. It's going to be awesome.
So, ever since I've come back into the real world from being sick, I've been super duper busy.
Today, I went to work and did some spreadsheets. And then I got a HUGE shipment of books and was super excited. Except they turned out not to be my books, and that was a huge bummer. Then word spread around the office that George Clooney was at one of our buildings filming his new movie! They were blowing fake snow everywhere and it was a big to-do. Here are some pictures that a coworker took with her (crappy) camera:
It was 68 degrees today, and as you can see, the grass is green, so it's funny to see snow outside that building. I wonder if they'll leave the Missouri license plates in the movie, that would be funny.
After all the commotion and star-struckedness, I got another shipment of books, this time twice as many as the ones that weren't mine, and these WERE mine! So, now I'll have a lot to do tomorrow and next week.
Left work late and picked up the last of the necessities for the trip and the house, and then headed home. Got completely packed with the exception of the things that need to be washed tomorrow to pack. So, I'm feeling pretty good about my travel situation now.
Tomorrow, I will work as long as I can then do the laundry and finish the packing. Then, 5:30 am Thursday, it's Mexico here I come! I'm not sure if there will be internet where I am at, but I will be blogging and just not posting while I'm there. So, expect many pictures and stories Monday!
That's all for tonight, finishing touches tomorrow!
Its suuuuuper windy here today. A tree branch blew off one of the neighbor's trees and hit my house. Shattered the upstairs windowsill clean off. So... Guess that will get replaced tomorrow. As if I needed one more thing.
Leaves me wishing it were a little more like the "Wizzard of Oz" - that really is a great scenario for me. Just think:
1. I have awesome home owners insurance, so it'd be OK for the house to blow away.
2. The dog is okay, and gets to come with you on your adventure, so Paisley would be fine.
3. Red shoes (which I already have!)
4. Friends! I could use some friends!
5. Flying monkeys? Scary yet totally awesome. Plus, Paisley is a way better dog than that stupid little Toto - so she's put those monkeys in their place.
And so, those are my 5 reasons why I think I should be the new star of Oz.
It was soooooo gorgeous outside today.
Woke up. Went to the bank. Then we took Paisley to the dog park to play. On the way there, we stopped at the new bakery just a few blocks from my house. It's an art gallery/bakery, but it will remain nameless. If you're in STL, I'm sure you could figure out which one. Anyway, I have really been wanting to go since it opened, and I keep missing it. But, today we went. It took forever for them to take the orders of the 3 people in front of me, and then when I got up there I got two cupcakes. Lemon with lemon icing for Scott, lemon with raspberry icing for me. We were saving them for after lunch, so we put them on the floor board and headed to the dog park.
Paisley had a blast playing with the other buddies there. Here she is (so dirty!) resting under the bench:
She played about an hour and then we headed to Chava's, our favorite Mexican place just a block from the park. The staff is so great about dogs there, they always bring them water with the people's waters. :) Had a delicious lunch then headed back home.
Scott went to run his errands and I cleaned out my closets. I now have several bags of clothes to donate to Goodwill, as well as a great feeling of a clean(er) house. Then I did dishes and picked up the innards of Paisley's toys that I'd been ignoring a for few days:
After cleaning, Scott and I went to dinner at O'Charley's where we both had the "cotton candy cosmo" -without the alcohol, of course, as we are both ani-drinking:
They brought it to the table as just the candy in the glass, then you poured the stuff on it. We had sprite and cranberry juice instead of the juice and some sort of vodka. So, I shook it up, poured it on, and then drank it. And licked the glass to get the rest of the sugar. ...I'm sure to unknowing bypassers, I looked like a real lush:
That last one's a low point in my life, lol.
So, then we went to see "Slumdog Millionaire" which was a very intense few hours of furrowed brows. But, it was done really well. It had some subtitles, which we all know I am against, but they were done REALLY well. Backed by slightly transparent colored blocks, placed more in the 'action' of the scene, and larger than usual in a typeface way better than the standard arial or helvetica. So, good job them. My only complaint was that the orphanage owner looked way too much like Jermaine from Flight of the Concords, and I kept wanting him to break character and sing "Business Time" or something. But, otherwise, excellent movie.
Now we are home. And Scott reminded me we had the cupcakes from earlier still. So, we tried them. And... Insert extreme disappointment. They aren't nearly as moist as the other cupcake places in St. Louis are, and for being lemon cake, there was no taste of lemon. Scott's "lemon" icing tasted like pure butter. The only thing that made it resemble lemon was the color. My raspberry icing? Tasted like a butter and whipped topping mixture. I hate to say it, but there is still half of both cupcakes left, and they're going to end up in the trash. :( And we all know it is not like me to ever do such a thing. But, it's true. These were just not good at all. Maybe it's because the shop is vegan/vegetarian friendly that it was so absolutely inedible, I'm not sure. But, I really didn't think you could ruin a cupcake. I mean, they aren't all going to be as awesome as The Cupcakery in the central west end, but even Jilly's (which fucking suck because there is hardly any CAKE in them, as they are filled with shit) knows not to mess with icing. The cake is the base line, but even a bad cake can be carried by a wonderful icing. *sigh* Insert heart break here.
So, that was my day. Sorry to end it on a 'bad' note, but i am here to bring you the news, and that was it. Night all.
So, today is my 23rd birthday. It's been a better day than yesterday.
To celebrate, I went and hung out with my younger sister, mom and dad. I took Paisley, too, so she could party with Twister. We had yummy taco soup for lunch. And also really, really yummy funfetti cupcakes with chocolate icing.
Then, we took the doggies to the barn to play. Here are the best of the shots:
Those will probably be the last doggie snow day pictures, so for those of you that are tired of seeing adorable dogs playing in the snow - it'll be safe to come back to my blog soon.
After that, we de-thawed at Jessie's house and I knitted while she played Super Nintendo.
Then I drove home and Scott took me out to a delicious dinner at a Japanese Steak House that was not quite at all what we expected, but ended up being supremely awesome because it wasn't what we thought.
Tomorrow we will go to Scott's cousin's bar mitzvah in the morning, and at night, but I hope to get some serious relaxing and knitting done in the afternoon hours. We shall see.
As for tonight - I'm freakin' exhausted. Night all!
We got more snow today. Remember my picture of my car yesterday? Well, take a look at my sight this morning:
I'm still not sure how I'll shovel my car out tomorrow...
Then I let Paisley out back to play in the snow:
It came up to her belly! She had so much fun, that Scott and I decided we just *had* to take her to Art Hill, THE place to be if there's snow in St. Louis.
So, we went. Before we got to the hill, we let her play off leash for a while in a big open area:
Scott pushed the sled out to her, and she'd chase and fetch it! It was the cutest thing ever. Then, of course she ran around like a crazy dog:
And, if Scott made a snowball, she attacked it instantly:
Scott went sledding a few times, and there were lots of people there. Here's a view from the top of the hill:
Then Paisley & I followed Scott down and took a very cute picture at the bottom:
And then on the way out, we drove to the other side of the frozen lake, and this is what the hill looked like from there:
And now, I have a very, very tired dog to show for all of this. At the moment, she looks about like this (and I imagine she will for at least the next 8 hours):
If you liked the pictures, I have an entire photo album of them on Flickr. Click here for the snow day ones. :)
Today was another good day. It was the kind of Saturday I've really been needing. I slept in until 10ish. Woke up, got clean, and then promptly put my pajamas back on. Had breakfast. Moved to the couch.
And then, I KNIT. Pretty much all afternoon. I knit while listening to my new favorite podcast, Stitch It. The one I mentioned before, that I wasn't sure about? I ditched it. No good, not interesting, annoying voices of the talkers. Then I found Meghan (sitich it caster) and all was well. She talks knitting, she talks spinning, and she keeps me entertained. Now that I'm at home all day, having her here is like having a co-worker that I actually like! One that talks to me all day and makes me forget how crappy things can be sometimes. So, if you knit and spin, I'd suggest you check her out. I give her 7 stars for awesomeness.
So, since I knit, I have a finished object to show off to you all. It's nothing magical or huge, but it is finished, and that's what counts:
It's the first of many cozies to be knitted as holiday gifts for cousins and friends that I'd like to have know I'm thinking of them. Each cup will be filled with cocoa mix or tea and little goodies. I started a dark blue cabled one too, but it's not quite done yet.
When I was tired of knitting, I spun. I still had some louet violets pencil roving left (a half pound goes a long ass way, let me tell you), so I spun up the rest of that, and got the thinnest singles I've ever spun! I'm really excited about that, because I want to be able to vary the thickness of my handspun goodness based on project or recipient. When I was done with that, I took out the 2 oz of 'shock-tart' green Fleece Artist Merino Silver (not the actual colorway, but look at me not care) that I got in a swap over a year ago. At the time, I (duh) didn't spin, but I do now, and I was very excited about the prospect of it. So, I sat down with that and started to spin it up. Again, I'm doing really thin singles and this is AWESOME. partially awesome because I'm thinking if I spin this thin enough, I can ply it with my OG Skittle single and if it's half as thick, 2 oz will be just as many yards as 4 oz, right? I may ask around on the forums and see what everyone thinks. I don's have pictures of the spinning tonight, but I probably will tomorrow when I finish up with the green.
In other news, Scott asked me to look at the weather tonight when he came back in from being out with Paisley, and I noticed something that seemed a little strange to me. Take a look:
I can't really say this shocks me, but I do like to take note when the weather does something here that only St. Louis could bring. A pleasantly de-thawed day in the middle of two days with snow.
In a final, totally off-topic note, ya know how they say that your feet get longer or change size with age? Ya know, women are always saying that after they got pregnant their shoe size went up and never went back down again? I wonder if it can go the opposite. Do feet shrink too? I ask this because growing up, my older sister would make fun of my younger sister and me because our 2nd toe was longer than our 1st toe. But today as I took my socks off, I noticed that now, my toes are a perfect slant. Tallest to shortest. It's like a Christmas miracle! I don't know how this happened, or if it's been that way a long time and since my feet never see the light of day, I just now noticed. Either way, I'm pretty excited about it.
Show us a sign that the holidays are upon us.
This was from Turkey day. But, it snowed again yesterday AND today. A lot.
I am not a fan. The weather here is so far off. Just 3 days ago, they said it'd be 50 today. And what is it really? 28. BURRRRR. (And pout.)
