It's a a "Giant Slurpy" outside!

It's been a very interesting past 48 hours or so. Our mini-Nor'easter was just that.... mini and pitiful at best! It started snowing on Monday night and we probably had about 3 inches when I went out in the morning to walk Simon before work. In the following 12 hours it proceeded to sleet, pour rain, snow, sleet, pour rain. The land of Cambridge/Boston became one giant slurpy. Seriously. Ridiculous. Slush up to peoples knees in some places. It was so gross. My choir rehearsal got cancelled and then my ensemble group decided to postpone our weekly rehearsal. Woo-hoo! Happy Valentine's day to me :-)
After I got home from work I was relaxing for a bit when my doorbell rang. It was an older woman who asked me if I had a shovel because her car was stuck out in front of our apartment. I lent her a shovel and then went out to help her. She was seriously stuck. Slush, ice and snow. We rotated between shoveling and then her getting back into the car rocking it back and forth while I pushed. Yeh - right, ME pushing a car. It was freezing - I was soaking wet - well, we both were. So then there was this guy down the street who had been snowblowing and also had seen us in our hardship. The woman said she was going to go ask the guy if he would help me push because, really, that's all we needed -a little more manpower, one more person and boom the car would move. So she went to ask him if he would just help me push and he told her "no". No explanation just "no", and then turned away with his snow blower. NO? NO?! NO?!?! Can you tell that I am still furious about this? So anyhow, we were able to get the car out. My freakishly strong muscles proved themselves to be,um..., freakishly strong again.
Later in the evening Karen came over and she and Bree and I had a Valentine's dinner together. It was super yummy! Chicken au Champagne, brown rice with sauteed mushrooms, salad with a homemade lemon-olive oil vinigrette, and floating islands along with a rose wine.
Along with dinner came a "flash freeze warning". I have never heard of such a thing before! As turns out all that slush froze - absolutely solid. The slush on the sidwalk, the slush surrounding car tires, the snow on the ground was frozen solid. Simon and I went to the park and walked on top of the snow without leaving a footprint! What a mess it was this morning with people trying to get their cars out. Solid, solid ice. People with ice picks. It was a mess to walk on too. It took us 15 minutes longer to walk to school this morning than it usually does just because we were trekking across the Antarctic Plains otherwise known as the "route to Longy".
This tundra needs to go away soon. I can't run in this mess! Booooooooo!!
Yay for Fridays and weekends! :-)