Under the Stormy Skies

The weather outside is frightful, but it's warm and comfortable inside with the Christmas music streaming from the speakers.

The weather forecast is predicting up to 30 cms of snow and I just saw a few flashes of lightening followed by the rumbling of thunder. The wind is whipping up from the high winds and forming huge snowbanks outside this condo. I'm staying in all day as my curling game has been cancelled for this afternoon.

Inside, the moving boxes are starting to pile up high while the cupboards and closets get cleaned out. I think I've done as much packing as I can until the big day (in 45 days). I've now moved on to my Christmas holiday packing. For two weeks, I'll be in Mt. Tremblant with my extended family, including my brother and his family from Australia. His two children haven't ever seen snow, but they're expected to arrive today in Montreal (which is experiencing this same snow storm system!). Whether they can land or not is another question altogether.

I'm glad to have the Christmas break between now and the time I move as it'll help the time go by faster. Yesterday I went and visited my new house. On the way from here to there, I was thinking about how far it was from the centre of town.... Oh no.... I'm in the burbs! Some of my friends that I invited couldn't make it - but our own fabulous Anne-Marie did! Kinda neat that she and her bunch were the first ones to see my new home.

It's smaller than I remember and I've probably got to put about $25K of renovations into it - but it's mine! Oh, another clap of thunder outside.

Think I'll sign off and make myself a nice long mug of hot chocolate.

A bientot mes amis.