Yah – I never thought I’d be saying those words – but clearly I underestimated the province I now live in. Yesterday morning we woke up to news alerts titled ‘Winter Storm to Hit Prairies’ & ‘City of Calgary Braces For 30cm of Snow’. My first reaction was to curse out Mother Nature to Ryan, like WTF Calgary? But once I calmed down I decided to head into work and try and stay positive. I secretly think everyone in my office loves seeing my reaction to the crazy weather in this province. I call it the newbie effect. I’m sorry I will never accept that it is normal to have a blizzard on April 28th, and if that makes me a Torontonian for life then so be it. It’s just not right Mother Nature, it’s just not.
We did have to brave the weather yesterday to head out to our Administrative Professionals Thank You Lunch. I enjoyed a tasty avocado and shrimp wrap from Kilkenny’s Irish Pub. That place is HUGE, and reminds me of our local Irish pub from back home. Once I got back from lunch I sent Ryan an email that went like this: “WAHH I don’t want to go grocery shopping in a blizzard, I just want to be lazy”. Fortunately, despite the severe lack of food in our fridge, he felt the same way. So we spent last night hibernating in our warm apartment and made a quick dinner with what we had. We followed this up with some PVR catch-up of Criminal Minds (love that show) and watched Its Complicated (one of my fav movies).
Today I headed into work only to find out that two of my coworkers weren’t coming in because they live further North than me and had no power. Crazy! It’s now 3:00 and there are about 3 of us left in the office. I’m the only one left from my group though so I have to stay until 4:30. I’m just hoping the weather starts getting better so we can actually get our MUCH needed groceries later tonight. I don’t know what we’ll have for dinner otherwise, lol 
Anyways, it’s been a crazy crazy few days.
I just keep trying to remember that we get Chinooks in February at it goes up to +15 and everyone else in this country is jealous – that’s about the only upside I can find in all of this. I’m not bitter .
Anyways, I will post later today and let you know if grocery shopping was successful or not, and also *finally* get the Banff/Lake Louise pictures up – I just don’t have them on my work computer.
Hope you are all having warm and cozy Thursdays!
I’ve been living here in Calgary for about 10 years now, and I will never get to used to the snow storms at the end of April! I had to take the bus home from work (in the NW) right at the most inopportune time…I was soaked by the time I got home. I have the day off and haven’t left the apartment yet today, but I do have to admit that it doesn’t look so bad out there. I suppose the north part of the city is probably in worse shape than downtown though
Good luck with getting groceries tonight!
A snowstorm in april! That is crazy. I’d be shocked if that happened in South Carolina.