Winter is definitely here

This is what it looked like when I came home from work today, all dark and snowy, and windy.
Then 10 minutes later the storm stopped for a minute, and it was gorgeous outside.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow we are getting hit hard with the first real winter snow storm of the season. By the looks of this storm I think we are in for a long, cold, snowy winter.

Last night, on my way home from work, I had some issues actually getting home. To get home to my house I have to drive up a very steep hill, and there are no ways around it. Most of the year its nice to live up on the hill. We get a gorgeous view, and nice breezes in the summer (plus it makes me feel like I am rich living on hill above everybody, even though I am just in a rich persons basement instead, renting. Did I mention that my mattress is on my floor, and we have a yellow kitchen?). However, in the winter, the streets turn to ice slicks, mounds of snow grow and grow on the side of the road, and for some reason snowplows discriminate against cul-de-sacs and smaller roads, which is where I live. In my opinion people who live in cul-de-sacs and on smaller streets need the snow plowed just as much as those who live on large streets, and busy highways. It might be safer for me to just sled all the way to work and hitch hike home than to risk driing my car down a 45 degree angle street on ice. Last night on my way home from work, I slid through a stop sign with my breaks giving me no help at all. Then as I turned the corner up the little hill in front of my house I almost slid into the neighbors yard. After barely making that turn I started to make my way up the hill which took me aproximately 42 minutes as I zig zagged back and forth inch by inch. As I am zig zagging out of control up my hill there are these little kids sledding down the middle of the street...can they not see that I obviously have no control of my car, and that at any minute my tires will regain a grip on the road and I might actually accelerate, do they think I am just burning rubber in the middle of the street for fun? REALLY! Finally a little girl who was outside shoveling her driveway came over and shoveled in front of my car so that I could make it the last 4 feet around the corner to my street that also was not plowed. I came to a gentle stop next to the curb, where I couldn't believe that I almost died 25 feet away from my house. I CAN'T WAIT FOR WINTER! ITS GONNA BE SWEET!