Sensitivity

Nikki: Yeah, that guy was huge.

Dani: Yeah. And his girlfriend was kinda hefty.

Nikki: Dani!! That's not very nice. It's not like she was a cow!

Crazy Edmonton Weather

Things I have learned about Edmonton weather:

• Don't laugh at the "No parking: Snow route" sign when you are parking because the weather has been in the plus twenties lately. Surely, you will wake up to your car buried in two feet of snow the next day. (True story.)
• If it's sunny in the morning, there is probably more of a chance that you will get rained on later in the day than if it is rainy in the morning.
• 'Tornado warning' in Edmonton does not mean a huge F4 or F5 tornado like one in Kansas or Oklahoma is coming. It means 'funnel cloud might touch down in a farmer's field and whip up some corn'.
• You CAN play softball an hour after a severe thunderstorm and heavy rain and flooding so bad in one part of the city that it went over the hoods of cars.
• If it's raining and thunderstorming in one end of the city, it's probably nice and sunny in the opposite part.
• My car can stand up to hail a lot better than I thought it could.
• Apparently one time it snowed at least once during every single month of the year here.
• The day you don't bring your umbrella to work is the day you will get caught in heavy rain.
• It's a very strange feeling to be slipping on ice from large hail stones when it is +20 outside.

Yesterday Nikki and I witnessed a hail storm from her apartment. Here are some pics I took with my cell phone:

Please note the cute neon in the distance, bravely braving the weather.

Hail gathered under a tree.

How big the hailstones were.

Here are some other pictures I have randomly taken around Edmonton with my cell phone of the whacky weather:

Just getting onto the Whitemud from 159th street. My first attempt at tornado chasing.

I love this picture except for my stupid day pass at Elk Island ruining it in the reflection.

For a storm lover such as myself, I have to say...I totally moved to the right city.

Metaphors, milk and mushy. Mmmmm.

Me: I need to get an oil change.


Nikki: ...is that supposed to be a metaphor?


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Lorraine: I want a muffin. And a glass of milk.


Nikki: What are you, five?


Lorraine: What are you, NOT five?


Nikki: What?


Lorraine: It's the best I could come up with on short notice.
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*Lorraine and Nikki are listening to music on Nikki's ipod in her car*

Lorraine: Did that guy just sing 'I am a mushy!?'

Nikki: NO, he said 'I am a machine'

Lorraine: Ohhhhhhh.

*Machine line is sung again and Nikki starts giggling*

Lorraine: You TOTALLY heard 'I am a mushy' that time didn't you!