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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
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11:49p
Guess how we're taking out the dog tomorrow.
Well, on either side of the apartment, we have chest-high hardpack snowdrifts. (And yet, immediately around my car, you can see pavement.) The wind is cold and dry enough that it sucks the air right out of your lungs. The complex is now impassable to man. So we plan to toss him out into a likely spot, wait a while, and then reel him back in like a fish.
The dog normally hates the cold and the snow because he is a wuss. When it gets over his head, though, and he can fall through the drifts and disappear and charge through everything, he fucking adores it. Then he comes back in and we get all the ice and snow off his fur with a warm water rinse and then he gets rubbed all over with a towel and brushed and at the end he gets a treat, and then it's time to go out again. This is a dog who only walks on three legs when it gets below 40 degrees out. Our vet even said "he's not hurt, he's just being a baby about it." But give him a three-foot snowdrift and he's the Yorkie version of fucking Balto.
In other news, the mayor has gone out to see if he can rustle up some sleds and some hot cocoa. ... No, seriously. The mayor of one of the larger metropolitan areas in the United States has decided that our state of emergency is a clarion call for the most awesomest toboggan run ever. I, of course, believe this to be the most logical thing Denver city government has ever done, and I fully intend to go snowshoeing tomorrow if I can exchange the use of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) harpie84's snowshoes for her spending some quality time with our Wii.
Oh, yeah, we got a Wii. And then the blizzard hit, giving hpsf_phoenix two whole days off work to do nothing but play Wii. TELL ME GOD'S NOT A NINTENDO FAN.
(And when the snowpack melts in two days, GUESS WHAT a Japanese restaurant opened near us AND THEY DELIVER HOLY GOD!!! I could get seared ahi and Chilean sea bass! Pizza Hut can officially suck my ass!)
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