Only in New Jersey...

can one enjoy a Friday afternoon tanning but be brushing snow off their car on Tuesday.

Just another snow day..

I yearn for the days when I can post pictures of my weekends at the beach.

For now, we're stuck with this:

I guess I have to admit it ...

I have the best boyfriend ever.

He surprised me with something that I've been drooling over and dreaming about for awhile now, a Canon EOS Rebel.

As a proud new owner, I bundled up and took to the snow and ice covered streets of the Jersey Shore.

I think it was worth it.

Photos from my Flickr

Tired of This Yet?

This isn't whining, but is it summer yet?

Muchas gracias, weather.com and Mother Nature.

Snowy Fails

With puppies in the house that have a weird obsession with licking feet, squeezing in time to paint my toenails is a treat. Obviously, within thirty seconds of putting the final coat on, puppy naptime was over. To prevent any (more) accidents, they have to be taken outside right after they wake up. And for some reason, they just won't pee unless you stand outside watching them.

Oh, did I mention that it snowed today?

Urg.

And it looks like Mom's poor little palm tree was forgotten about a few months too late ...

Snow Day(s)

You know what makes me really happy?

I got out of shoveling snow! One point for trivial happiness!

After the extreme snowfall last winter, my mom and my neighbor split a snow blower hoping to never have to use it. That logic clearly failed, but it got me out of shoveling my immense driveway.

And, in further proof that snow days aren't fun after graduation, I had to work from home. Nope, no more snow days ever again. No more wine at 10 a.m. No more movie marathons while snuggling with my roommates. No sledding for me, just writing. Not that I really minded because I am a poor writer and it was another great excuse of why I couldn't help blow snow or clean off the cars.

Anyways, I'm done with snow now and it can melt and we can skip to summer, thanks.

I Hate Snow, but ...

is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen?

The First Snow Fall

South Jersey is a place that is just not prepared for the snow- especially the first snow fall. You would think that they got in the swing of things last year when Mother Nature dumped literally feet of snow over the south of the state. But no. This year, all it took was HALF AN INCH of snow to ruin my evening.

I hate snow.

And by ruin, I mean that it took me 3 1/2 hours to get home from work. The half-inch took my normally crappy 2-hour-ish drive and made it a miserable bumper-to-bumper nightmare. Driving up north was, thankfully, okay because all the snow was south of 195. Which made my panic attacks about driving in the snow at work totally odd because there was no snow in the forecast for up there and was a totally different world than an hour and a half south.

I hate snow.

And that it. That's all the snow that was on the ground last night. Almost no snow was on the highways because of all the drivers, but my road is a solid sheet of ice now. Lovely.

I hate snow.

This too is just not okay: More Snow Could be on the Way for Jersey Shore, South Jersey this Weekend.

I hate snow.