Winter finally decided to hit Three Hills

After months of very mild winter weather, the cold has finally arrived. Can't say that I'm overly thrilled about this fact, considering that you can pretty much get frostbitten walking from dorms to the dining hall. According to the Weather Network, it's currently -30. Oh wait, combine that with the wind chill and we've got -40! Earlier today it was -48. And tomorrow it's supposed to be -40 without wind chill. Brrr!!! Why am I living in Alberta? I should move to California.

So on the note of it being brilliantly cold, I decided that today was going to be the day that I go out for lunch with a friend. A friend that doesn't have a car, much less her license. (Fyi, neither do I). We tried Harvest House, which is only about a 5-10 minute walk from dorms, but found that it was closed for unknown reasons. I didn't want to go to the Mission because it's far too expensive for my taste (and I was paying). The only other respectable place to go to in town was Daniel's, and that's at least a 20 minute walk or so. To top that off my friend has a broken toe (which she eventually couldn't feel because of the cold). We decided to stop in at Mac's to warm up a bit before continuing our trek, and while thawing out we met a friendly old gentleman who offered to give us a ride. Now I realize that in a town any larger than Three Hills it may not have been such a good idea to get into a random persons van, but he was super nice and looked really familiar to me. I found out in the course of our 2 minute drive (that would have taken us around 15 minutes to walk) that he's my boss' neighbour. Sweet eh? We didn't manage to catch a ride BACK to dorms, but it was a blessing that we got a ride there.

And now I'm at work and have a considerable amount of homework that I should be working on. Oh, and maybe doing my job too... Minor detail. ;)