Thinking Warm Thoughts

Imagine waking up in the morning after a nice long sleep, wrapped in a warm cozy blanket, with a soft pillow under your head and the smell of coffee drifting into your room. You get out of bed and into something cozy and warm. You sip and enjoy your sweet, sweet hot coffee. After a warm and relaxing shower, you slip into some thermal pants, a thermal top, another pair of pants, an extra sweater, wool socks, snow boots, a thick jacket, gloves and a toque, keeping that warm feeling you've felt all morning, close to your body. Then you open the door to -23 degree weather and the warmth gets sucked right outta you, the boogers in your nose freeze and the hairs from your head that didn't get dried from your shower, turn to ice. You turn to walk to your car and a freezing gust of wind slaps you in the face. You pry your car door open, having a fight with the ice to see who is stronger and pray that your car starts, at least by the third try. While the car attempts to warm up, you start brushing and scraping the snow and ice off your windows, hoping that the wind doesn't catch the snow coming off the car, giving you a face wash, again. Back in the car, you settle into your seat, placing your feet on the floor mat that is still covered in snow and ice from the day before. You start heading to your destination and just as you pull into the parking lot, the car finally starts to warm up but its time to face the cold again. You open your door, as another freezing gust of wind takes your breath away and you think to yourself, "why did we leave Vancouver again?"

Yes, so it's been a cold week! We were planning on going skating after church today, but even with several layers on, it was much to cold! Besides the cold, our week was somewhat exciting. On Monday our sink started backing up and filling with water again. As we were bailing it out so it didn't overflow (again), we called the building maintenance people to find out that this is a regular occurrence! They came and put a "rod" through the pipes which I guess clears it out for awhile but next time we hear the gurgling, we are to call them again!

I worked Wednesday, Thursday night at Starbucks and had my first opening shift on Saturday morning. I had forgotten what 5am was like and discovered that I am ok not seeing it again! On Saturday night Carl and I went to the Kingston Symphony. We were able to get cheap tickets and enjoyed watching "Broadway Beauties", a story of 3 Broadway singers at different stages in their careers. The whole storyline flowed with a compilation of different songs from different Broadway shows. We actually liked it more than we thought we would!

As for other news, I read in the local paper that there was a hoarding situation in town. The SPCA has taken over 77 rodents from a house and is now looking for homes for several rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, etc. Let me know if you're interested!

I think that's it for this week! I'll leave you with some pictures that we took today as we risked our lives in the cold, for the sake of having pictures for this blog!

Looking down Lake Ontario - not sure what the smoke stack is from but the bumps on the side of the lake are ice chunks!

A closer look at the massive ice chunks! Ok, so they looked more interesting in real life!

Some cold blooded people going for a run...Well, they are either cold blooded or crazy?!

My intrigued husband who was experimenting to see if his spit would freeze before it hit the ground. His conclusion...No. So special!

P.S. I haven't gotten your picture for our wall yet so I'll just assume it's in the mail!