Yesterday was a bright sunshiny day. It was also day 5 of a 6 day work week for me, and about -17 Celsius with a brisk wind. I looked outside in the morning and said EFF THIS, or words to that effect. This is March for the love of all that’s holy, not January. It wouldn’t have been so disappointing to get all this snow if we hadn’t been seeing bare roads and snowless walkways and little tiny hints of spring. Now they’ve disappeared again.
Looking down our driveway. Wanting to run back inside and sleep for about six weeks.
The front of my house.
My neighbors front lawn.
I know I should not be saying bad words, not only because they don’t sound very nice, but also because they have no power to change the weather.
I will blame being tired of working, and maybe also the fact that muttering ‘oh dearie me’ like a proper grandmother just doesn’t cut it sometimes.
So for future reference, I have strung a few Eff words together and tried them out for effect:
Efface yourself you effete efficacious effigy of effusive effluvium!
Nope, it doesn’t make any sense, but neither does the real F word in about 99% of the ways in which it gets used.
So if I can just remember to repeat that little sentence with a lot of feeling, maybe kicking something at the same time, and without having my top front teeth go through my bottom lip, somehow I think the situation will seem ever so much better. And as an extra bonus, I won’t have to be so careful about what comes out of my mouth when there are small children about.
I want to wear my effing effusively fun spring coat. Really, is that too much to ask for the middle of March for crying out loud? I promise I will be in a better mood once I’ve had a couple of effectual days off. But right now, if it’s spring where you are, I effortlessly don’t like you very much.
cyclingrandma
March 16, 2013 at 7:51 am
Great post! I think the “F” word is so overused in movies and theater- I find it annoying and gratuitous- it says nothing or shows the writer doesn’t have the vocabulary to get his/her point across.
As to your snow– I’m envious- hear in the lower America (New Jersey) we only had one storm. I miss having a winter that hangs around a bit! Not to worry, I’m sure yours will melt soon.
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:39 am
I don’t think I’ve ever been envious of anyones snow….just their lack of it. There’s a reason why Canadians head south for a break from it all. Yes, winter does end eventually. I’m thinking it will be in June this year.
KM Huber
March 16, 2013 at 8:32 am
Thanks for the effing sentence, a mantra of effluvium for all seasons! How I need this post this day.
Karen
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:41 am
Aww…hope things are looking up for you today and that my EFFING mantra helped.
PaulaB
March 16, 2013 at 9:29 am
blawdy annoying, eh? SNow almost everyday this march break week. I’m just so effing tired myself of white fluffy crap.
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:43 am
Been trying so hard not to let it get me down – it’s only weather – but seriously, enough already. Blawdy annoying is right.
klrs09
March 16, 2013 at 9:59 am
Exactly how i felt yesterday! and again this morning! eff! eff! eff!
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:43 am
haha –
I’m trying to remember why I live here…..
photosfromtheloonybin
March 16, 2013 at 10:34 am
I feel your pain! My hubby and I just spent a week in South Carolina where, although it wasn’t hot, I didn’t need more than a hoodie and even got a sunburn on the beach on our last day. This morning we woke up at a hotel in Pennsylvania to a snowstorm!! The interstate was terrible with cars in the ditch everywhere. Trust me, I said the eff word myself a few times
. I feel so depressed now, and I want to go back to the ocean!! I can hear it calling me!
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:46 am
We have friends travelling back from their winter stay in Mexico a little earlier than normal this year – they’re in for a big surprise.
Reviewer Rose
March 16, 2013 at 11:57 am
Love it
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:47 am
It was effing fun to write. lol
seeker
March 16, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Effervescence. Trade you for a whole week of rain.
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:47 am
DEAL!! lol
deanabo
March 16, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Terrific. I was hoping to see at least one really good snow fall this year. We didn’t get any.
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:49 am
I would like to send you eight or ten of ours, if only I knew how.
SchmidleysScribbling
March 16, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Oh poor you. Our March has been both lamb and lion. Pretty here today, Cold and sunny. The good news about the snow is that all those things you saw raising their little green heads are tucked up safely under it. Dianne
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:50 am
I guess if they can hunker down and wait it out, I can too.
merbear74
March 16, 2013 at 6:48 pm
http://knockedoverbyafeather.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:50 am
I inspired a lot of swearing today. hahaha Thanks merbear. xxoo
sillyliss
March 16, 2013 at 7:09 pm
LOL! Zeb posted that last picture to my Facebook wall the other day. We are sick of winter too, and we haven’t seen grass or snowless walkways since December or earlier. It’s hard to feel like spring is around the bend when we’re still dipping into the -22C range (I used a converter thingy — looks even colder than it is when I speak Canadian!). I want SPRING!!!
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 8:53 am
W sent the picture to me in an e-mail – don’t know where he got it. I guess it’s ‘going around’. I LOVE it when people speak Canadian.
Yes, spring, where the hell are you? I’m doing rain dances.
sillyliss
March 17, 2013 at 10:32 am
We are in Minnesota, near the North Dakota border. Brrrr.
Kozo
March 16, 2013 at 9:16 pm
LOL, oh deary me. Love the photo and the effin sentence. {{{warm hugs}}} Kozo
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 9:00 am
Warm hugs are definitely appreciated. Shovelling my effing driveway would be even better… haha
Roxi St. Clair
March 17, 2013 at 1:33 am
love the picture with the gloves! lol
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 9:01 am
No, I think that’s actual people trying to get out from under all this snow!
I agree, it’s a good one.
lambskinny
March 17, 2013 at 7:34 am
Reblogged this on Versatile Blogger Award and commented:
And I just love snow…
grandmalin
March 17, 2013 at 9:04 am
Thanks for the reblog
My love affair with snow lasts for about a month in December. Then I can’t wait to get out of the relationship….
lambskinny
March 17, 2013 at 9:22 am
You’re welcome, Grand Malin… I love snow all year long but I don’t live where it snows, so… My memories of snow are of trying to get out of the driveway in Ohio, slip-sliding away on black ice in Indiana, playing in snow in Wisconsin… and skiing in snow in W. Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado.