MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Went to the Seahawks game on Sunday, and damn, it was cold! The temperature wasn't that low, but the winds were blowing steadily at about 20 mph the whole game, and that made it cold! Well worth it, though - the Seahawks kicked some serious Raven ass. :D

As a cold, awesome Christmas present to Seattle... we're having a WHITE CHRISTMAS! It started snowing a couple of hours ago, and it's still coming down hard! We probably only have a half inch or so thus far, but the way it's coming down, I bet we'll see quite a bit more before the day's over. :)

Lots of great stuff this year! The haul so far:
Region-free DVD player
Tokyo Disneyland CDs ("Christmas Fantasy 2007" and "Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights Christmas")
Young Indiana Jones vol. 1 DVD
She-Ra season 2 DVD
Sweater
Japanese workbook
Best Buy gift certificate
DDR for the Wii
Lightbox (for drawing)
iPod wall charger

The WDW Christmas Day Parade this morning was good! It seemed like they showed more parade and less blatant advertising, which I really appreciated. It felt kinda character-less, though. Mickey and Minnie were barely even in the opening number, and I didn't even see one character in the finale. And Giselle only got like 30 seconds. *cries* The performances were good, though. The High School Musical one cracked me up - they just changed random words to "What Time Is It" to make it a Christmas song. It was like something kids do on the internet as a joke, except it was real, LOL. And no Zac Efron, even though the rest of the cast was there. :(

After poking from ariellen, I started watching season one of Grey's Anatomy last night. Holy crap, I'm already hooked. Great combination of drama and comedy, with fun characters! :D I've only had time to see the first couple of episodes so far, but I definitely gotta see more. A couple of observations:
-They are not "ferry boats." Period. You cannot possibly reveal yourself more as an out-of-towner than if you call them "ferry boats." Six year olds call them "ferry boats." Real people here call them "ferries." XD (I am willing to forgive, however, since it's McDreamy, and he is from New York)
-I can't help but laugh that the site of the hospital is actually the studio building of Seattle's ABC affiliate station. How appropriate. XD

Okay. That's all for now. I hope everyone's having a wonderful Christmas!!

SNOW FOOTBALL! EEEE! The Seahawks just played their first ever snowy home game. And WON. Take that, Green Bay! :P Jerramy Stevens has begun to regain his credit with me by catching that two point conversion and the touchdown... if he can keep that up, I might consider discontinuing my "cut Jerramy Stevens" campaign. And if I'm not mistaken, this is not only the first snowy Seahawks game in Seattle, but also the first snow game this year in the NFL, correct?

So our little "flurries" this afternoon added up a bit more than predicted. And it's a MESS out there. My mom called me at work around 7 to say that snow was piling up on the streets, and that we had about an inch on the road. Luckily we had far more people than needed tonight, so I headed home a few hours early. It wasn't bad until I got halfway home... when suddenly there was snow and slush all over the roads, and the main road up to my house was closed. I had to go up the old way, up a winding, woodsy hill. Luckily enough other people had to do the same thing that it was more wet than snowy, but at the very top a car a few cars ahead of me spun out and I quickly turned down a side road. I ALMOST got stuck when I had to go up a small hill on the packed snow (which at this point, was 2-3" of snow completely covering the road) but managed to make it up the hill and slide home. Yaaaay! It was an adventure. I got a photo of my front yard when it started to snow just moments before I left for work this morning. I'll have to get an "after" picture tomorrow when it's light out!

ETA: It's after 10pm, and the major freeways (especially 405) are so bad that it's literally a standstill! And it's supposed to get even colder, and the roads are going to be sheer ice in the morning - glad it's my weekend! :P

ETA 2: 10:26pm, Bellevue to Federal Way, via I-405, travel time is listed at 143 minutes - a delay of 121 minutes. That's worse than our worst rush hour traffic.