LET IT SNOW!

[semiotic_pirate]

As my sweety crabbyolbastard said just a few minutes ago (yes he invented a new word):
It's Blizzarding!

It is indeed. Reports by the overexcited weatherman on the local Channel 3 news (which bumped Sunday Morning to 10:30, just to say it was snowing...) are that we will be getting at least 2 feet of snow. COB's dad said "You know its going to be bad when they NAME the storm." The name of our genteel nor'easter is called Carson. Query Did Carson Daley call up the weather people and make his case about how cool it would be to name a snowstorm after him? Better a snowstorm than a hurricane these days - they are rarer.

Don't forget to read my previous post - the huge, long, update of all the interesting news that you may have missed over the last few days... Are they - like in Mel Gibson's Conspiracy Theory all linked? You decide.

So, we have decided that in our snowed in state there should be some really horrifying movies being played to keep us awake, alert, and freaked out - since during a snowstorm there is still that feeling of being isolated, of being "snowed in" and unable to contact, let alone get out into, the world. (No, The Shining isn't on the list unfortunately, we don't have a copy of that yet.) The line up so far is: The Ring Two followed by 28 Days Later... Both are the UNRATED (read scarier and more fracked up) versions. Neither of which we've seen. I was thinking of having a zombie fest follow these but... who knows. Any suggestions? (damn, opening scene to the ring two and we say to each other at the same time "it's the ultimate (teen) chain letter!" and wouldn't you know it, the way they set it up in the first one... it is. this better not turn into one of those stupid teen movies... of course we just said - he waited too long, she'll watch it but not until he's already DEAD! hahahahaha! the irony.

Of course this (not the movie the snow) makes me want to even more, move to Colorado or some place that has a snow culture. New England does in a way but, it isn't that overarching, especially in the lower NE states like CT. And NH - yes I have finally come to the point where I can sorta bad mouth the place... there is a large population of the "inbred" and hateful types up there. Of course, the color of my skin would exclude me from their hate, until I opened my mouth and started voicing my opinions. And it isn't everywhere, just in (some?) the small, poor insular towns. Of which there are many in NH. There are plenty of nice places too - like Laconia and the Lakes Region - that sort of balance it out but... I have had too much exposure to the previous type in the past four years.

I would x out that whole part about NH if I could - don't know how to do it... You could tell me, of course... *sigh* My main problem is that I have ONLY been influenced to that opinion by the singular town of Pittsfield. Of which I have only heard most of the bad and not nearly enough of the good. How it has affected my immediate family, destroyed a marraige that I never wanted to occur, (not that I would take it back if I could because it resulted in three most wonderous siblings) and so on. Should I allow that experience, (and a few others that were purely on an interpersonal basis) poison (I was going to say "color" but then realized what the root of that particular saying probably was) all the good memories I have of NH? Should I allow the feelings of tawdriness influence the good that I've known of people and places?

Back to the movies: why can I not stop yelling at or about the movie at the screen and to my sweet crabby one? About how stupid the people are, about: WHY DO THEY STILL HAVE TELEVISIONS AFTER WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH?! Oh. it was a nightmare. Never mind - I'm going to have to just shut up and watch it.

Enjoy the snow!

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I'm from NH. :P Windham, though, so it's basically like being from MA.

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

I grew up in MA but spent the majority of my formative adult years (at least ten) in NH, Nashua, then Manchester... Immediate family however, (silly them) moved first to a town past the mountains and then when they couldn't stand the isolation anymore, moved down to Pittsfield.

Anything in the area of Nashua and south of that is just like living in MA, mostly because over the years many people from MA have migrated, but not far enough into the state to change anything further than Manchester maybe... and of course, the more well off areas, like Bow and the Lakes Region (Laconia).

[jandriel.livejournal.com]

Yay! SNOW!

(We hardly ever get it here long enough to get tired of or deep enough to play in.)

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

I'm remembering the blizzard of 1978... wow that was fun! They plowed all the snow into the parking lot across from my apartment building (I want to say house but that would be fibbing) and so a bunch of friends and I burrowed into it and made a huge tunneled fort (that had NO chance of falling in on us). It was GREAT! Of course, the adult in me, cynical as it is - wouldn't enjoy that as much as the child in me did. I would however, love to find a place that allowed lazy adults to enjoy sledding without having to trudge back up the hill... kind of like if a ski resort were to revert to or at least allow sledders as well as skiers and snowboarders. Yes, I know there are tubing places that kind of do this but... Hrm. I have yet to experience these places though, they could be really fun. Was the trudging back up the hill part of the fun though? Do you remember?

[jandriel.livejournal.com]

I think it was fun the first few times, but after that, it was obvious which vector was better.

*L*

If only I would reply more quickly! *GAH*

[skathic.livejournal.com]

you don't have a dog named Ken, do you?

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WEATHER/02/12/northeast.snow/t1.snow.dog.ap.jpg