snow! movie! giants game! christmas!

so obviously i'm highly behind the times here, but OMG YOU GUYS IT TOTALLY SNOWED IN DC LAST WEEKEND! and for what was a pretty laid-back, snowed-in weekend, a respectable amount has gone on in the past few days. the first, obviously, being Snowpocalypse 2009! aka snOMG dc, aka THE STORM OF THE CENTURY, aka the Blizzard of 2009! etc etc etc.

i pretty much ignored the news, because dude. around here they forecast 3" of snow and the entire region PANICS!!!! and clogs the stores to buy out the entire dc metro region's supply of bread and milk and they preemtively cancel school the next day... and then it rains overnight. so despite the dire warnings of NO SERIOUSLY GUYS, WE'RE SERIOUSLY SERIOUS THIS TIME, IT'S GONNA SNOW I SWEAR, i.. didn't really believe them.

turns out i should have, for once!

this was at about 1p on saturday.. it continued snowing for the entire rest of the day and kept accumulating. we ended with about 20" - 2 feet around me.

and, funny story? the new snow removal company our building JUST contracted? never showed up for the whole weekend! so we were quite literally snowed in, as you can't really plow a wee civic through 20" of snow.

but on friday night, right when the snow started... man, it was gorgeous. we decided to go see avatar that evening and since it had just started to snow, we opted to metro to foggy bottom and walk the mile to the georgetown theater. the snow was coming down in huge fluffy flakes, everything was silent and coated in a layer of pristine white, and the neighborhoods seemed to be glowing from all the ambient light reflecting off the falling snow. it's was absolutely beautiful.

(also, the movie? HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS. go see it. go see it in 3D. seriously. GO GO GO.)

by sunday, though, i was pretty over the snow. especially since i was supposed to host a party at my house and had to cancel it due to the metro being shut down and my lot still being completely unplowed. i was SO sad about this. i had prepared all week, bought decorations, made plans for all sorts of fun drinks, baked cookies... and then had to cancel. and since no one got to see my house all clean and decorated, i'm making you guys witness it instead.

so that was disappointing. but due to my fantastic boyfriend i did not stay sad for long, because he had obtained tickets to the redskins-giants game on monday night! you all probably know how that turned out, but let me refresh your memory just in case...

45! to 12! one of the most awesome games to watch EVER (as a giants fan, i mean. i imagine it was not really watchable as a skins fan). BOY HOWDY was it cold being outside for 6 hours that night, but so totally worth it. 45-12!!!

i'm now back in NJ at my parents house where we're preparing for the Christmas Eve festivities. so far our christmas tree came crashing down - fully decorated - at 6:30am this morning, and i've spent a large portion of the day cursing about work issues. however, we have a lot of christmas cookies. and we've tied the tree to the wall behind it (seriously!) so hopefully it's up for good now. i hope you are all home with your families too, or will be shortly. have a wonderful holiday weekend, everyone!