Soulwind's Rant House

Well we got the cold . . .and the snow . . . and the wind. . .but I wasn't expecting all the ice. The Fifth is a sheet of ice with ice potholes and tire impressions oh, and lets not forget those bumps!!! Yeah, doing 30 felt too fast and that place is a 50km/h zone! I did 20 on my way home from work at 8pm. It was amazing. I wanted a camera so I could show you guys just how icy that road was! My headlights just lit the road right up it was so shiny. Then it was about 85 on the highway because they actually put some effort into making sure those were half decently drive-able. But for the first time Ever, I felt like I really was taking my life into my own hands driving to work. Nothing like a little slidin' while drivin' to get the blood pumping. Fortunately I'm smarter then to odd driver and I start stopping for a light really early instead of sliding into the intersection like some morons. This is small town Alberta Canada, what'd you expect to happen?????
Anyways, We're getting a least a week of this weather. it's cold cold (even with the decieving sunshine) that my dogs are now calling the coatroom their sleeping place.

So I got a call bright and early from my work's security company asking me if I would be willing to go meet the cops at my workplace because the alarm was going off!!! I'm low man on the tolempole! Do you know what that means??? It means they called about 12 other numbers for people who SHOULD be answering their phones until they were forced to call me!!! Anyhow, long story short Rob beat me there and I scared the crap out of him (mostly because I don't scare easily). It was so funny to se him jump a foot in the air. He said he'd re-inverse me for my gas (because I am the employee who lives the farthest away) and I told him I'd see him later then I came into work to actually work!
It's really dumb asking me to go meet the cops. What am I going to do? All I can do is open the door and shut the bloody alarm off; after that I'd just go home! It's Rob who knows all the phone numbers to inform the security company of all the crap they need to be informed of . . . .and my good sleep was seriously ruined.
I suppose it teaches me not to go to bed at 1am 'cause you never know when someone is going to call you at an ungodly hour in the case of an emergency.

You know ur from Alberta when...


-When you call a "4-wheeler" or an "atv" a quad

-When you talk, you say: "I's cuttin m' grass" instead of "I was cutting my grass"

-When your visiting somewhere else, while driving, you say: "Where are all of the farms?"

-When you gape at other people when they say: "Where are the rocky mountains?"

-You've been to the West Edmonton Mall alteast 10 times, and stayed in the theme rooms at least once

-When you look forward to Klondike Days in Edmonton

-When you go somewhere else in Canada, and people make fun of your "accent". ;o what accent??

-When"Vacation" means going to Edmonton, Calgary, Jasper or Banff

-When you know everyone in your town

-When someone famous from Alberta is your second cousin's hairdresser's cousin's best friend

-When your VERY redneck...Very...

-When you actually know what a redneck is

-When your in another part of the country, and people see a deer, and go "OM MY GOD!! ITS
A DEER! WOW!" and your like, "Yeah..cool...."

-When you measure distance in hours

-When you know what kind of snow throws best

-When you go to someplace like toronto, you go, "OMG why is the air brown? I cant breath!! Are we going to die?"

-When during Halloween, you make sure that your costume fits over your snowsuit

-When your school classes were cancelled because of cold, but only when it was -40 or colder

-When you often reply "you bet!" or "hell yeah!"

-When 7-11 is the place to hang out

-When you actually know what 4-H is

-When you get claustrophobic when you're in a "big city" like Red Deer and their traffic is "just
awful, you wouldn't believe it;

-When you carry a roll of toilet paper in the glove box in case you have to stop and go by the road

-When you find -20 degrees "a little chilly"

-When you've been quading atleast 25 times

-When trucks are a neccesity, not an option.

My stitches are out and I can go back to being almost completely care free!


Danny Boy (an old old song)

Oh danny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling;
From glen to glen and down the mountainside;
the summer's gone and all the flowers are dying,
tis you, tis you must go and I must bide.

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow;
or when the valley's hushed and white with snow;
And I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow;
Oh Danny boy, Oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if ye come when all the flowers are dying;
and I am dead, I well may be;
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying;
and kneel and say a "Ave' there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft ye' tread above me;
and all my dreams will warm and sweeter be.
If ye will not fail to tell me that you love me;
Then I simply sleep in peace, til you come to me.