20 Years of Snow

I have pictures of the blizzard, but I’m too lazy to upload and link them. We’re completely snowed in. We’ve shoveled paths to the dog kennel and cars, but the driveway is still covered in about three feet of snow. Our neighbors plowed the road, but completely snubbed us as far as plowing our driveway. Which kind of pisses me the fuck off, because we’re literally stranded here until the driveway is clear. Which means we can’t go out to fill up on food or gas or whatever we may need.

And we’re going to need some supplies, because we’re supposed to get twenty more inches of snow tomorrow night and Wednesday morning/afternoon. It’s so fucked. Who knows how long it’ll be ‘till we’re able to get out of here for food. Like, we don’t usually go anywhere a lot, anyway. But it’s just the prospect of literally being trapped here that’s kind of frightening.

Plus, we’re supposed to get 40 MPH winds with the snow. So our power is almost definitely going to go out for a few hours, if not for a couple of days. It’s going to be miserable. I don’t mind not having electronics. I actually pride myself in being able to separate myself from technology when the power goes out, instead of making myself miserable because I can’t get online or play video games or whatever. What’s going to make it suck is that we’ll have no heat, and nothing to do at night when there’s no light. I mean, we have the woodstove, sure. But that hasn’t been heating too efficiently the last few days.

Honestly, what truly scares me is all this snow. This will be the third big snowstorm in one season. That’s never happened before in history for this area (and I think it’s pretty rare for most areas). When it’s over and done with, we’ll have gotten more than five feet of snow this winter. It’s like mother nature is throwing a major bitchfit. It actually reminds me a lot of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Obviously it’s not on such a great, catastrophic scale. But it’s so fucking bizarre getting so much snow so quickly all of a sudden.

I’m dreading this week so much.

Blizzard Entertainment

Well, what I’m sure will become known as “The Blizzard of 2010” began earlier today. Well, I guess since I woke up, around 10. (Even though this post will get posted after 12AM on February 6, I’m still considering it to be February 5.)

It’s crazy shit outside. The snow is already around 2 feet, and I think we’re expected to get around 3 feet, maybe a little less. But I can’t honestly remember the last time it snowed this much. Maybe the Blizzard of ‘96, but I was too young, then, to fully understand the scale of it.

Anyway, I’ll be sure to post some pictures of it and stuff, tomorrow. Tonight, I’m going to be writing about Stephanie.

 

To paraphrase (because I’m getting tired of getting too caught up in the details): I suspected her of lying about living in Virginia, due to things posted/displayed on her Facebook. That suspicion was pushed further by things I heard from Molly, about two guys she was (as I understood it) kind of pitting against each other, which totally made her out as a drama queen. After Michele and Marie, I don’t suffer liars. So I deleted her from all my friends lists.

Last night, I got a nudge from her on MSN. I wasn’t at my computer at the time, so when I got back I simply replied, “Sup?” Here’s what happened after that:

 

Me: sup?

Stephanie: hey

Me: what's up, Stephanie?

Stephanie: Not much, why did you remove me off of lw?lolol

Me: uh, 'cause you lied to me?

Stephanie: about?

Me: well, for one
Me: living in Virginia

Stephanie: I did

Me: it's cool and all, i don't resent you or anything
Me: i just don't tolerate liars for friends

Stephanie: Josh I did live in VA! I moved couple months ago.
Stephanie: Thats why I know allot about Vriginia
Stephanie: and who told you this?

Me: oh no one told me
Me: i figured it out
Me: you still acted like you lived here, though

Stephanie: because i miss being in VA, thats all.
Stephanie: i never lied to you
Stephanie: but okay if you are going to act that way..

Me: lying by omission is still lying
Me: act like what?
Me: you won't make this about me
Me: it's not my fault
Me: you chose what you did and didn't tell me
Me: that was not my decision

Stephanie: i thought you knew i was cali

Me: so don't for one second think you can try to make me the guilty one in this

Stephanie: i thought i told you
Stephanie: where have you been?

Me: even when i brought up how it was funny that you said you lived in VA and still did things on facebook that were related to CA?
Me: you completely changed the topic when i brought it up
Me: so don't gimme that
Me: i don't buy into your little drama queen lies, Stephanie
Me: so you might as well stop now

Stephanie: and you are pissed off because of that? 
Stephanie: its not a big deal
Stephanie: i never lied to you

Me: i'm not pissed off, no
Me: i simply don't tolerate this, like i said

Stephanie: i visit VA like every 2 months
Stephanie: so i still feel like i'm home there
Stephanie: so you can think whatever

Me: i will think what i'm relatively sure of
Me: and that is that you like to start drama
Me: if that's not true, then you at least like people to think what you let them think, even if it's untrue
Me: either way, you weren't honest about who you are, and because of that, we won't be talking anymore

Stephanie: Josh what are you talking about?
Stephanie: what about me.
Stephanie: i used to like you but the way you are acting is very childish

 

I’m so proud of myself for sticking up for myself. The old me would’ve backed down and simply forgiven her, probably even apologized to her. But this was just one of those times that really reinforced who I am, now. And it feels so much better. Like a refresher.

Origins

Brandon and I were/are talking, and I realized I’ve lost sight of what this blog was really made for. Too much of it has become a chronicle of my life, and not a place where I can write about how I truly feel about things. So, in my opinion, it’s time to get back to the origins. What do you think?

I originally planned to write about some new happenings with Stephanie, but I’m not sure if I’ll go with that just yet. I’ve been going through my Flickr account, looking for pictures of myself in a dress, which I took for Laura when I lost a bet to her. I couldn’t find any, but I did find some old-ish photos I’ve taken in the last couple years that I’d forgotten about. I thought I’d post some of my favorite ones. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures correctly on here, but so far I’ve failed at it, so I think I’ll just post links. There’s one in here, which I’ll leave for the end, that’s from when I was younger, and I just really love it, ‘cause it makse me giggle.

Okay, so, in no particular order:

 

A picture from atop Jefferson Rock at Harpers Ferry, WV

 

An Obama rally in Leesburg, around October 2008 - There were about 10- or 15,000 people there, and we were just about in the very front.

 

Sponge-type thing in shower – I finally figured out how to do some special things with our camera, so I took this picture. It’s probably my best take on artistic photography.

 

Sunrise at home – I can’t remember exactly when I took this picture. But judging from where the sun is, I’d have to guess it was about 10 or 11 AM. The sun always looks so amazing when it’s shining through the trees, here. All you have to do is look up and you’re instantly taken away from everything. Something I don’t take advantage of nearly enough.

 

Me as a brat – Again, I can’t remember exactly when this was taken (obviously, considering my age). I’d guess I was about 2 or 3. I love this one so much, because even though I’m still just a toddler, I have this face that says, “What, you wanna mess with this?!” Haha, like I said before, it makes me giggle.

 

So that’s it, for now. I hope I don’t accidentally delete those pictures from my flickr and break the links. Otherwise they’re gone forever.

Next time, I’ll probably write about the update on Stephanie. It’s not particularly important in the typical sense. I want to write about it because the way I handled the situation made me feel really good about myself, like I’m not the same bullshit-swallowing person I used to be. ‘Till next time.