Mother nature is a beeotch...

For those that don't live in the area, or didn't hear about the madness, Portland has been a mess the last few weeks. We had a freak snow storm that lasted two weeks, and the lucky children of the area got a whole extra week of Christmas vacation. Portland is silly. The first week only had a couple inches, or no snow on the ground at certain points...and no one can seem to function in it! The second week was actually bad. And being from Utah, I feel like I have some authority on the matter! There was a ton of snow, and driving without chains woulda been dumb. Anyway....I digress.

I had a fantastic Christmas vacation planned. I was going to fly to L.A. and spend the holiday with my good friend Evie, who was going to be alone in the town she just moved to. I was going to go shopping at H&M, which still hasn't bothered to come to Portland! We were going to visit my friend Martina, and we were also going to spend Christmas day at Disneyland! Martina got us reservations at Club 33, which was Walt Disney's private dining room back in the day. It's now the only place in Disneyland that serves alcohol. Cool right? I know! Well, that beeotch Mother Nature had other plans for me. Apparently that much snow makes Southwest a bunch of pussies, and they grounded all of their flights for 3+ days! I was gonna leave on Monday, and they said the first flight they could get me on was Friday. That was the day I was going to come home...sigh. Oh, this all happened AFTER I spent 2 and a half hours getting to the airport, and freezing my rear off when we had to wait outside for a shuttle bus for an hour! Brrrrr.

Even though my little heart was cold and sad that it wouldn't get to LA, my friend Jocelyn came to the rescue. She invited me to go home to Roseburg with her. It's no LA down there, but, it was better than being stuck in the snow for another week! It took us an hour and a half to dig her car out and get the chains on. The 3 hour drive down took us 5 and a half. But, we had a nice time down there, and by the time we got back to P-town, all was melty. Woo hoo!

Now it's the new year, and I start school on Monday....scary! More details to follow on my first week or two....