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Scenes from Winter in Wisconsin...

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  • Scenes from Winter in Wisconsin...

    So I'm standing in line at Qdoba, picking up some chicken soft tacos for lunch and two people ahead of me in line is this 20-21 year old girl wearing spike heeled black evening sandals with two tiny little straps running between her toes (which were painted lavender), a sparkly ankle bracelet and a little short skirt. And about halfway up her bare calf was a big gray smudge of dirt/slush that she must have gotten getting out of a car because it's winter in Wisconsin and it snowed last night so the parking lots are icy and full of black slush. Very classy. I was wearing hiking boots and wool socks with my dress--not very fashionable, I know, but at least I won't fall on my a** in the parking lot.

    And last night driving home in the snow (which conveniently hit at rush hour) I was making a left hand turn and just kept going, spinning a 180 onto the median. I was sure I was going to plow into two of the cars waiting to make a left hand turn, but I didn't--I slid neatly with my front bumper between them and was able to back off the median and creep home. I think this means I've used up my karmic good luck for the rest of the year--I felt like a cat with nine lives that just spent them all.

    Then, at 11:36 PM, the power went out. Not just for me, but for the entire grid as far as I could see. When it's 7 degrees outside with a wind chill below zero, that's not just an inconvenience. I started worrying about pipes freezing and whether I should put my two cockatiels in bed with me (they'd have loved that) and how cold the house would get before I started to panic. Fortunately the power came back on 3 hours later. Now at 1:49 it's snowing again and we're supposed to have 6 inches on the ground by morning. 8O And my DH is doing his last week of overnights this week, so I'll be the shoveler.

    The good news is that Residency ends at the end of the month and we found a GREAT house in Arkansas last week and are set to close on April 17th. If I can just survive this last Wisconsin winter!!!

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    Congrats on the new house! and the end of residency! we're counting the days until this 'adventure' ends.

    Jenn

    and I guess I can't complain about 60 degrees and rain, huh?

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    • #3
      Nope, you're not allowed to complain about 60 and rain. It's 57 and cloudy in my new home right now!

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      • #4
        Ok, I guess I can't complain at 12 degrees and flurries. Crossing my fingers for some of that Denver sunshine tomorrow so that I don't have to shovel!

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        • #5
          Good grief! Thank GOODNESS I am not the only one sick to death of this new ice-age! This has been my first "northern" winter up here in Massachussetts and it is KILLING me! It's in the 60s and 70s down in Texas tomorrow for good friggin' grief!
          Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
          With fingernails that shine like justice
          And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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          • #6
            This has been a particularly brutal winter in the Northeast (and elsewhere), Rapunzel, so don't despair, I'm almost certain they won't all be like this. Even those of us born and raised in northern climes have been bothered by how cold and snowy it's been this year.
            Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
            Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

            “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
            Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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            • #7
              You guys are making me so glad that we didn't get our first choice for residency .... IOWA! I will take 60 degrees here in San Antonio even with all the rain. Hang in there. Spring is around the corner!

              Robin

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              • #8
                Whither Weather?

                When my wife was ranking, we had to choose between Atlanta and New Haven. We were pretty sure she would get her first choice, given the Program Directors' feedback and nagging. heh.
                Anyway, at the moment (below zero windchills and stuck inside with a toddler), I'm pining for Atlanta, but I'll bet you that in July and August I'll be more than thrilled with Connecticut.
                Enabler of DW and 5 kids
                Let's go Mets!

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                • #9
                  I guess I won't complain about the weather. I lived in Atlanta for 5 years. My Mom, brother & sister still live there. What a neat place (depending on where you actually live).
                  Luanne
                  Luanne
                  wife, mother, nurse practitioner

                  "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." (John, Viscount Morely, On Compromise, 1874)

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                  • #10
                    For about two years I commuted from New Jersey to Atlanta - fly down on Monday, back on Thursday. Atlanta was lots of fun - but summers there just killed me! Everybody went from a/c at home to a/c in cars to a/c at work. And spending more than a few minutes outside meant you'd have to change your shirt
                    The funniest thing was when the roads would get icy in the winter, and nobody knew how to drive on ice or snow. Traffic would just be horrendous cause of all the fender benders.
                    And our rental cars had no ice scrapers (in the north they do) - so we'd all use our I.D. badges to scrape the windshields - and all had to get new ones in the spring.
                    :P
                    Enabler of DW and 5 kids
                    Let's go Mets!

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                    • #11
                      It is SNOWING AGAIN in Boston!!! We are supposed to get up to SIX inches in my area today!!! Someone PLLLLLEEEEAAAAASSSSEEE tell the weather it is MARCH! I am not a happy woman....
                      Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
                      With fingernails that shine like justice
                      And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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                      • #12
                        Yes, I am having a near panic attack about thinking about going from San Antonio (where it is currently 71 degrees and sunny) to Minneapolis all next week. I don't even know where my winter clothes are! I have a light-weight wool coat and that's it!

                        I'd like to see the city, but I may just have to hire a cab to drive me around!

                        Jenn

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                        • #13
                          winter

                          I just had to add that my mom is flying in from TX tonight and she is absolutely panicked about the weather...we had more snow last night, around -5 again this morning and it's expected to get colder next week...

                          Jenn...bring your long johns!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Kris
                          ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
                          ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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                          • #14
                            I don't OWN long johns!

                            Jenn

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