Oh stormy skies....

Seattle has been having some interesting weather this weekend.

On saturday it started snowing around 1 or 2 and had coated the ground with huge, wet, fluffy flakes about 2-4 inches deep. Drivers here seem to be so scared of snow--they become their own worst hazard. Overly cautious, mostly.

It rained the following day, wiping all that snow away. The rain continued heavily all throughout last night (unusual for it to rain hard for any length of time in Seattle). This morning driving to work several roads were flooded. Later today they are expecting gale force winds (i guess it is 100mph on the coast right now?). I only hope that if another tree falls down in our parking lot, it doesn't fall on my car. I can't afford to buy a car right now, and taking buses will be more expensive than driving (go figure).

Chris had a soccer tournament saturday, after which we got Indian food with Eliza and Joe (Joe plays soccer with Chris). It was great food and it was fun to hang out with those two--they are pretty quirky and really fun. After dinner we grabbed some beer and went over to Paul and Nick's house (also on the soccer team) to have an end-of-season/holiday party. It was a blast--we decorated the tree with beer cans and bottles and bottle caps.

I like Chris' soccer team--his friends are really fun people and I hope we start hanging out with them more.

In other news, I am still looking for a new job. I wish I lived in the city--but for now I am glad that I live in the suburbs. I am having trouble getting my act together with money. I haven't started saving yet since moving here--I think I am really struggling to feel like I am on my own two feet. Yikes. In some way I should have expected this because for the last four years in college I have been mostly deficit spending out of my savings and college account, only saving when I was able. I think I should have expected that I would have a poverty-mentality with my money and been a little more cautious with it. I keep saying "after this next paycheck I should be level" but i still feel unstable. It might be that I need to deal in cash for a while until I can re-learn to be deliberate about where my money is going--that always seemed to help back in college.

Makes me nervous though to not have any savings built up--you never know when things are going to happen (such as some jerk rear-ending you and costing you a couple grand in damages and rentals, etc).