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It all comes back to me now!
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Feb. 3rd, 2008 | 09:31 am
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chipper
I like to wash my linens once a week. I love getting into bed with Downy Fresh sheets and pillowcases. However, drying all my linens takes a long time. With the way my apartment catches the morning sun, I need to do it early. So it’s a once a week kinda activity. Usually a Saturday or Sunday.
Yesterday, I didn’t get out of bed until rather late. In the winter, if I want to dry sheets outside, I need to hang them up by 10 am. Any later than that and they don’t get really dry before the sun starts to go down. If I hang them up at 8, they’ll be done by 11. Hanging them up indoors is an option, but that takes up all of my hanging space for the day, and I can’t do regular laundry. So yesterday I just washed clothes.
This morning, I woke up and checked the weather forecast on my phone. 70% chance of precipitation. Boo!! So I got up to look out at the day. This is what I saw:
Sweet Georgia Brown!! Linens be damned. It’s a snowin’!!!
I scrambled to get dressed in a manner that would have sent my mum into fits (“You need MORE layers. MORE!!”). Pulled on boots, coat, hat and toasty Norwegian mittens. I stepped outside.
I had a debt to pay, so I ran out settle it. Dara. Here is your snow angel.
That out of the way, I decided That the next thing I needed to accomplish was a snowman. I’d forgotten a lot of the skills I had developed as a child. The core of the balls need to be really packed tightly, or it won’t build as you roll it. The weight of a small ball is not enough to make new snow stick to it. You have to keep patting, patting. Snowmen’s bodies do not just stick together, you have to pack a lot more snow around the joints. About half way through my rolling, I started to feel guilty. I was using up all the snow in the back area of my building. Then I thought, “Fuck that! No kids live in my building! And it’s their fault for not being awake first anyhoo!”
Finally, this is what I created:
But oh no! He’s NUDE!! I’ve created a nekkid man in my back yard. And by no stretch of the imagination could he be described as “hot.” I had to dress him. I didn’t have coal, or carrots, or a corncob pipe. But here’s what I came up with.
I shall call him “Yaoi the Snowfan.”
Chopstick arms, chopstickholder mouth, wooden spoon nose, scarf, hat, Pop Up Smap 3D glasses. Oh yeah, baby! This is winter! Take that, Japan! With your inferior two-balled snowmen!! This is how we does it in countries with REAL snow!
So I set out to photograph the neighborhood.
This is my neighbor’s garden.
The view of my street, looking East.
The view of my street looking West.
My car and apartment (my apartment is the one with the pink curtains).
Another neighbor’s garden. (Is this flipped the right way? I've flipped it in photobucket, but it still looks sideways on LJ. Boo!)
The big street at the end of my little street.
The elementary school.
Where are all the kids?? Sure, in Canada we’re kinda sick of snow by now. But this is the first REAL snow of the year here (The anomaly we had a week or so ago doesn’t count. Kids were in school and it had melted before they could go play in it.). It didn’t snow at all last year. By 8am there should be a jillion kids running around out here. Instead it’s just me and a local obasan out taking photos and agreeing with each other that the snow is really beautiful. Japanese kids suck. No wonder the adults don’t like them very much.
They painted this building last summer. I thought it was a really nice colour for an apartment. “I live in the Butter Building.” It looks extra pretty in the snow, eh?
Satisfied that I had properly documented the weather, I came home, cranked all the heaters on, got back into some warm jim jams and made myself some hot chocolate. Yay, winter!
Now I'm going to settle in an watch some movies. Best. Sunday. Ever.
Comments {9}
From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 01:29 am (UTC)
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That snow angel is awesome but GOSH the snowman is GREAT. Haha I love how you first put the picture of the undecorated snowman; it just added to the impact of the decorated one! I grew up drawing three-balled snowmen, so the two-balled ones really weird me out.
Drink some hot chocolate and stay warm!
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 01:39 am (UTC)
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 02:17 am (UTC)
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I feel the same way everytime I teach the students about snowmen back home XD
That is one hip snowman :D
Edited at 2008-02-03 02:18 am (UTC)
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 04:26 am (UTC)
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They're so cute when they think they understand winter.
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 04:22 am (UTC)
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...but they give me the tiny smidgen of insulation that my house lacks in some places!
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 04:25 am (UTC)
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I challenge you to a snowman building contest!
See if you can beat Yaoi the Snowfan!
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 04:27 am (UTC)
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From:Date: Feb. 3rd, 2008 09:41 am (UTC)
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Well, the first thing I noticed when I got up this morning was that the daffodils in my window box have started to flower, spring is on its way? There are however members of my household who are ahhhhing and oohhhing over your snow *turns off the heating in their room and cranks up the thermostat in mine* Hope you have the best cozy hot chocolate slugging DVD watching Sunday ever.
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From:Date: Feb. 4th, 2008 12:45 pm (UTC)
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But now I'm over winter.
*waits for spring*
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