Reason #5 to leave TN as soon as the lease is finished:

(This post could also be called, In which I use WAY too many paranthetical expressions and get very sidetracked)


The weather here blows ass.

I'm not kidding. It is the worst weather of anywhere I've ever been. Sure, because we live in the valley, we really don't get much in the way of a major league storm; hurricanes, tornadoes, and such are all stopped by the mountain ranges. There are practically no earthquakes here as there are no fault lines anywhere close to us.

But there is a saying here, "If you don't like the weather, stick around for a day and it'll change."
And this is unbelievably true.

For example: Sunday? Just three days ago? SO and I ate our regular Sunday breakfast (mmmm......eggs in a basket, bacon, orange juice, milk and LOTS of coffee!!) on the back deck.
Yes, it was so gorgeous outside that we ate breakfast (admittedly it was probably 11am, so I suppose it could be considered brunch) outside!
And then what did we do? A whole bunch of our friends came over for an impromptu kickball tournament.

And while we waiting for all to arrive, some of us (obviously not this uncoordinated girl; meaning myself) preformed various gymnastic feats and we tossed around the frisbee--despite what this image suggests, we are a group of musicians and artists and Curly here was one of just two or three people that actually had a pretty good control over his/her muscles. (By the way, I did try to locate a kickball photo, but everyone's faces are in it, and I'm just not sure that's somthing I should be doing). All in all it was a really good day as after just two or three innings everyone got tired and we headed back to my house; oh yes, someone was wise enough to suggest walking down to the park that's just two (country, not city) blocks away to play rather than stick around in my yard to see who can break which neighbour's window first. And then we finished the day by driving to get half-priced sushi and drinking LOTS of sake....perhaps a little too much sake than is proper on a Sunday evening?

But the weather? Oh yes, THAT. The next day it dropped by about, oh, I don't know 20-30 degrees and on Tuesday? IT SNOWED. ALL DAY LONG THERE WAS SNOW!! I'm still nursing a nasty sunburn on my arms and I'm putting on heavy socks, multiple layers and my SNOWBOOTS to get to work.
Seriously? It's driving me mad.
Sister is in Boston looking for a place to live and on the seventh day in April that we folks here in the south are NOT enjoying gray skies and slushy HEAVY snowfall (it didn't stick by the way, the ground still had to be very warm from the 75 degree Sunday), she was enjoying walking around BOSTON, very northern, in a sunny 50-ish degree temperature.

Yes. That is just another reason to really hate TN.