Winter Wonderland
So Pittsburgh has become something of a snowy oasis from the outside world. I went to bed last night and my house, porch, stairs, front sidewalk, etc. were covered in scary-dangerous ice and when I woke up this morning – the ice was gone! And in its place was a lovely layer of white snow.
Two steps off the porch quickly revealed that the ice is still there (whoops!), but it sure does look pretty.
Supposed to get up to 45 or so this weekend, according to one coworker. I guess that’s good or whatever? I’m a winter person, I love the snow. But I also love the spring, when it’s starting to get warm but it’s hot hot yet. So this back and forth weather stuff is making me crazy. It feels so nice when it warms up and starts to get me in the mood for spring. Then the snow and cold comes back. Then when I’m getting used to that again, it warms up. I can’t take it. I’m getting whiplash.
Some developments at work – mainly the threat of offering me a full-time, grown-up job with a salary and benefits and all that – have me thinking about this city more and more. I’m thinking about sticking around. What sense does it make to leave guaranteed employment to move across the country to a state with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country? I’m thinking about asking Boyfriend to move back. I’m having constant fantasies about the sweet artist’s loft we could live in, with our dogs and maybe my Girl Cat.
I love this city. Pittsburgh with Boyfriend in it again would be just about perfection. (True perfection would be if my student loans up and disappeared one day, never to be seen or heard from again.)
Oh, hey. Super Bowl this weekend. I hear our team is, like, in it. I won’t pretend to be a football fan, but I do love the ol’ SB. (Can you study marketing and not love the Super Bowl? Is it possible?) Looking forward to good food and beer and company. And, hey, if we win…I get to go rioting. Can’t beat that.
