Snow Stories

Friday night is laundry night. I love doing laundry here since all you have to do is place your clothes in the washer (if you're OC like me, you have to sort them whether they're "machine wash warm" or "machine wash cold"). After 50 minutes of senseless whirring, you pop them to the dryer, place this fabric conditioner tissue like thingie then hit another button. After a few minutes, your clothes come out clean and pressed. Well, not fully pressed but close enough so you whip out your iron ... (comment: hey arn, get to the snow story!) ok fine fine...

This Friday night, I ran out of detergent while preparing my second load. It was already late (10:15pm), it was freezing outside, snow was everywhere, I was already in my sleep wear and there were probably lots of mitis outside so I thought I'd just drop by Jewel tomorrow morning. That sounds logical, I was pretty tired and I wanted to rest already. Then I realized I'm out of Krispy Kreme donuts...

So I was outside in my jogging pants, my trust ol' Lebron shoes, a thin air cool shirt and a cotton jacket - no thermals, no thick jackets. Hay, the things I do when I run out of donuts... one time I went out with in my shorts... Nicole found it funny and crazy... anyways.. that's another story. After going through the revolving doors (no static this time), pucha ang lamig pala. I was crouching on the ground because of the cold deciding whether to run for it or go back to my apartment, get a thicker jacket but risk not being able to reach Jewel before it closes. (If you still haven't figured it out... Jewel is a grocery here... punta kayo http://www.jewelosco.com/ if you're curious.). I decided to run for it... donuts yun... walang lamig lamig if donuts are involved. I ran past CVS, ran through a red pedestrian light, and ran through Kinzie between Clark and Dearborn - huge mistake because that area is filled with icy patches. I slipped thrice before I got to Dearborn. On my way, lot of people thought I was nuts because I was going jogging at 10:30 pm with temperature well below the freezing point. Hahahaha! No I wasn't. I'm just out in jogging pants running to the store to buy detergent and donuts. Normal right?

Jewel was still open. I grabbed a Jewel detergent container but there were no Krispy Kreme donuts on the pastry rack...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (overhead view of Jewel with pigeons flying away).

side story: the next day, I went back to Jewel with Ann. Andun pala sa likod malapit sa dairy section hehehe :-P

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It snowed the entire weekend and snow on the ground is now 2 inches thick. Great for snowballs! I was making one when Gezelle wacked me with one from behind. The whole afternoon we were just exchanging snowballs but I think in our official score she was still ahead. Kainis, I missed one at point blank range. 4 -seam fastball grip pa naman yun.