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Feb. 9th, 2013 11:56 amWoke up to a quiet city (if you ignore the sound of shoveling), and decided to sleep another hour or two. Then got up, and had a hot bowl of quinoa cereal.
So, the blizzard, aka Nemo (which keeps making me think of "Finding Nemo" for some reason, as opposed to Captain Nemo), wasn't all that bad in my neck of the woods or rather my neck of the city. We got around 8-10 inches. Rather pretty - there's a soft blanket of pristine white over everything. It won't stay that way of course. By Sunday it will be yellow and brown - thanks to the dog-walkers (although stray/city cats also have a hand in it I suppose), trucks, cabs, and various aged kids playing in it. And on Monday a slushy mess, due to temperature warm up and possibility of rain.
Getting snow in NYC isn't like getting snow out on Long Island or Upstate NY or the suburbs.
We're lucky if it stays pretty for five hours.
I stayed awake until 1 am reading, and well due in part to the rowdy snowfight that occurred on the street below my bedroom window at midnight. Could have done without that. Although I guess I can see the appeal - afterall, there was no traffic. The entire street was blanketed in pristine white snow, and the snow was largely untouched and fairly clean. Plus dead quiet. The city asleep. Except for the snow plows scratching away in the distance.
Watched Nashville and Grey's Anatomy last night. ( Read more... )
Was planning on watching the Grammy's on Sunday, but..after downloading the nominated songs and listening to them all week - I find I don't care. The songs are not blowing me away and they sort of all sound a like, except for the extreemly grating "We'll Never Ever Get Back Together" by Taylor Swift. (Shame. I liked her Eyes Wide Open ballad on the Hunger Games Soundtrack far better - it's haunting. But maybe she didn't write it?) Also, fun's "We Are Young" reminds me too much of a Queen ballad, and I like Queen better. The only song that sticks with me and I liked was Florence and the Machine's "It's Darkest before the Dawn". Love that song. I think I need to buy another Florence and the Machine album.
At any rate - it's on opposite the return of Once Upon a Time/Revenge, Downtown Abbey's Two Hour Second to Last Episode, a highly praised stand-a-lone Girls episode, and The Walking Dead. (Apparently the network's don't worry that much about going up against the Grammy's...the Super Bowl yes, the Grammy's not so much.) At any rate there is far too much on Television on Sunday nights. I kept hoping Downtown would finish prior to Walking Dead coming back, or at least before Good Wife and Revenge went up against each other again. Not that this is that big of an issue - in this day and age, you needn't worry about missing a tv episode - you usually can catch it later on demand, on the internet, or via netflix/Amazon/itunes, with a few exceptions (the season finale of Covert Affairs for example, dang-it, although that will most likely be re-run prior to the next season's opener). I remember the days in which you missed an episode - you were unlikely to see it unless someone taped it for you and could send it to you. (Which ahem, didn't seem to be that long ago.)
So, the blizzard, aka Nemo (which keeps making me think of "Finding Nemo" for some reason, as opposed to Captain Nemo), wasn't all that bad in my neck of the woods or rather my neck of the city. We got around 8-10 inches. Rather pretty - there's a soft blanket of pristine white over everything. It won't stay that way of course. By Sunday it will be yellow and brown - thanks to the dog-walkers (although stray/city cats also have a hand in it I suppose), trucks, cabs, and various aged kids playing in it. And on Monday a slushy mess, due to temperature warm up and possibility of rain.
Getting snow in NYC isn't like getting snow out on Long Island or Upstate NY or the suburbs.
We're lucky if it stays pretty for five hours.
I stayed awake until 1 am reading, and well due in part to the rowdy snowfight that occurred on the street below my bedroom window at midnight. Could have done without that. Although I guess I can see the appeal - afterall, there was no traffic. The entire street was blanketed in pristine white snow, and the snow was largely untouched and fairly clean. Plus dead quiet. The city asleep. Except for the snow plows scratching away in the distance.
Watched Nashville and Grey's Anatomy last night. ( Read more... )
Was planning on watching the Grammy's on Sunday, but..after downloading the nominated songs and listening to them all week - I find I don't care. The songs are not blowing me away and they sort of all sound a like, except for the extreemly grating "We'll Never Ever Get Back Together" by Taylor Swift. (Shame. I liked her Eyes Wide Open ballad on the Hunger Games Soundtrack far better - it's haunting. But maybe she didn't write it?) Also, fun's "We Are Young" reminds me too much of a Queen ballad, and I like Queen better. The only song that sticks with me and I liked was Florence and the Machine's "It's Darkest before the Dawn". Love that song. I think I need to buy another Florence and the Machine album.
At any rate - it's on opposite the return of Once Upon a Time/Revenge, Downtown Abbey's Two Hour Second to Last Episode, a highly praised stand-a-lone Girls episode, and The Walking Dead. (Apparently the network's don't worry that much about going up against the Grammy's...the Super Bowl yes, the Grammy's not so much.) At any rate there is far too much on Television on Sunday nights. I kept hoping Downtown would finish prior to Walking Dead coming back, or at least before Good Wife and Revenge went up against each other again. Not that this is that big of an issue - in this day and age, you needn't worry about missing a tv episode - you usually can catch it later on demand, on the internet, or via netflix/Amazon/itunes, with a few exceptions (the season finale of Covert Affairs for example, dang-it, although that will most likely be re-run prior to the next season's opener). I remember the days in which you missed an episode - you were unlikely to see it unless someone taped it for you and could send it to you. (Which ahem, didn't seem to be that long ago.)