It's Rai-ining, on Pro-om Night

Hurrah, it's finally raining! It's been freezing* for the past week, and it started raining last night with expectations that it will last through Sunday. I'm kind of excited about a weekend of rain, even though it means that I won't be able to do anything with Scout (all our facilities are outside).

As I mentioned, it's been really cold here lately. Last week, I went out to my car at 7:30am** to find it coated with a layer of ICY FROST from the night before. I have never, ever seen that before. I was a little perturbed, as I needed to get to work and all of my windows were suddenly opaque. I did everything I could think of to get rid of the ice. First I kind of stood, dumbfounded. Then I swiped at it with a plastic bag I'd rooted out from under one of my car seats. Then I tried to scratch it off with my fingernails. Despite my best efforts, the result was still nothing - the ice stayed put. I wound up running into the house where my roommate was already awake, crying "OH MY GOD THERE'S ICE ON MY CAR WHAT DO I DOOOOOO?!?"

She's from Chicago, where they have actual weather, so she's dealt with this before. She told me to turn the heater on and just wait.

Oh. Ok.

So that's what I did, and 10 minutes later the car was unfrozen and I could get to work. Woohoo.

I guess that story had a really anti-climactic ending, but Ithink it's funny that no one in Southern California (including me, obviously) knows how to handle inclement weather. The temperature drops to 60 degrees and we start complaining about how cold winter is.

Rain!!

*as I live in southern California, please note that "freezing" means "time to think about putting on a sweater". We are wusses.

**Ok, fine, it was more like 7:56am. To get to work at 8am. Fail.