annathepiper | Tweety McTweetersons (Reply)

11:20 Waiting to see when the Mess is going to get here. Weather radar has a bunch of blue out on the peninsula. #
13:19 Playing Facebook Scrabble with Dara, whee! No snow yet. #
14:56 The Big Mass of Blue is slowly rolling northward over Lake Washington on the weather radar. Like The Mist, only hopefully without tentacles. #
14:57 Also, Dara is kicking my ass in Facebook Scrabble. #
15:22 @Firni Blue being SNOW according to the radar map that weather.com uses. #
15:38 Oh HELLO tiny flurries in Kenmore as of 3:38pm. Here we go. #
15:49 @Firni Yeah you may be more in line for the wind first than you are the snow. Joy! #
16:10 Solstice candles are lit. I have hot clam chowder. Okay, Longest Night snowstorm, bring it! #
16:37 @heatheringemar It is! Partner and I are staying up all night. With a snowstorm and possibly also a windstorm coming in. Fun! #
16:43 @heatheringemar Thank you very much, and I think that's a right and proper wish right there. :) May your own holidays be fine ones too. #
17:05 I have just been asked by my spouse to check if our regular pizza place is delivering. I think the answer to this is NO. #
17:10 I am wrong! Pagliacci is actually willing to deliver! I have hastily placed an order before they change their minds. Also, will tip LARGE. #
17:56 Pizza made it here, hurray! (Of course, I just had clam chowder so I'm not exactly hungry...) Snow still steady. No wind. #
18:30 First amusing TV of Longest Night: Boris Karloff in Isle of the Dead! #
19:34 Y'know, for a movie that's supposed to be about an old Greek version of a vampire, the only thing scary in it is Karloff's toupee. #
19:50 Opened a couple of gifties from Mimi! She gave me a lovely box full of bath things from Lush. THANK YOU MIMI! #
19:50 And Dara got a 'Disappearing Bill of Rights' mug. Snort. ;) #
19:51 Oh yes: still snowing as of 7:50pm. Dara's put up our seven-sided star of holiday lights, even if we don't have a tree. Cats can't reach it! #
19:56 Dara also got a cute pig-shaped sponge. And pocky! Mmm, pocky. We're saving the rest of Mimi's gifts for Christmas. #
20:24 Now is a good time for Firefly. Also, eggnog-flavored gelato! #
21:08 Ah okay, now Kenmore's showing a Winter Storm Warning on weather.com. But Dara's made blueberry muffins! Mmm warm muffins. #
21:56 Tail end of "Heart of Gold" still makes me sniffle, yep. #
21:59 The snow is still going strong. Blowing straight up to the doors on the porch and deck, and I can barely see past the streetlight. #
23:06 Firefly episodes done, swinging around to Serenity now! And we are still With Snow. The warning says for us to expect it to go all night. #
23:36 I see I've picked up some new watchers tonight. Hi folks. I'll be entertaining as I can in 140 characters. #
23:37 HELLO first power hit of the evening. Only a flicker, but the UPS on the servers beeped. #
00:37 Few more power flickers. The UPS just bleeped again, right after Wash bites it in Serenity. Sniff. #
01:01 The snow's eased up a bit, though it's still blowing around. There are icicles on the streetlight. #
01:40 And now, 3:10 to Yuma! #
02:17 It's fun watching Crowe give Bale the "we gonna have us an argument about which of us owns this movie, son?" look. I (heart) this movie. #
03:40 Down to light dustings of flurries outside. And 3:10 to Yuma is still totally slasherrific. #
03:44 Solstice candles are still burning, but I need more caffeine. Time for more of that tasty Christmas tea technoshaman brought me. #
03:56 And now we move into the Dara Plays Mandolin for a While stage of keeping us awake. Summer is a good instrument for that. #
04:04 Weather.com thinks Kenmore is "cloudy" now. We have a very light, fine, cold mist going on now, somewhere between snow and rain. #
04:38 Wow, my Kentucky pops right out after a several-hour Firefly/Serenity/3:10-to-Yuma marathon. I may be drawling for a week. #
05:10 Back to truer snow now, and heavier. Dara wants to play more Facebook Scrabble. The cats wonder why we're all up. #
05:19 Dara's turn to play something on the DVD player. Time for the New Captain Scarlet! #
05:39 @m_pig We have plenty of light snow still blowing around here. #
05:45 We're downgraded to a Winter Weather Advisory now. But it talks about up to two inches additional snow and also maybe a quarter inch of ice. #
07:03 Closing in on the home stretch now; 53 minutes to go. Captain Scarlet is still keeping Dara and me awake through the last of Scrabble. #
07:28 Still very lightly doing something out there, either fine misty rain or very light snow. Dara won the Scrabble. 27 minutes to go. #
07:34 Dara's feeding the catmonsters before we go to bed. 21 minutes. #
07:42 A few tiny determined flakes are still falling. If the forecast is right Dara and I should wake up later today to more snow. 13 minutes. #
07:45 No wait--the snow has stopped, I think! Wow, so that's 3:38pm to 7:45am for storm duration. Rockin'. Ten more minutes to sunrise. #
07:54 Close enough now for this to be my final tweet. Happy Solstice all. Dara and I will now give candlelight back to the sun, and then, bed. Zz. #