Comments on: I fell down the stairs and I don’t hate winter anymore

By: zoom!

zoom! — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:21:04 +0000

Rhiannon, Ottawa, on average, gets more than twice as much snow as Winnipeg does (235 cm vs 110). But this year we’re on our way to an all-time record – we’re over 400cm now. Good luck with your exam!

Nursemyra -what’s hirudoid?
Dirtwitch – what’s arnica?

Dirtwitch, if you can get to Ottawa, come on over!

Deb, no I didn’t feel like crying, but I did have a brief flash of anger and nobody to aim it at.

Leanne – excellent question. What do we win? Hmmm. I think we should all get a tropical vacation if we break the record.

Julia – you have convinced me to contract the job out. But I’m not doing it until I get old or I have grandchildren, whichever comes first.

Alicia – slush shields!

David, as always you make an excellent point. I hadn’t thought of that. You’re such a strategist!

Don Mills Don – hey, we take what we can get, eh? Nicest ass would be better though, you’re right.

Scrabulous Rob, losing by a centimeter would be more than I could bear. If we get that close, we’ll all have to scrape out our freezers and add the ice crystals to the accumulation on the ground, just to push us over the edge.

Kelsey! I’m glad you like my cup! It’s my happy cup.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:31:47 +0000

Well, congratulations on your cup! It is indeed beautiful. But sorry you fell down the stairs.

By: Scrabulous Rob

Scrabulous Rob — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:14:12 +0000

I think I speak for anyone who reads your blog when I say “YEEEEOWW!!”. I felt that fall (…but obviously not as much as you!). I chuckled when I read Deb’s comment re: shaking up your head on the way down because of your “renewed” love of winter. On the one hand, yes it would be nice to break the snow record so we can tell the youngins 30 years hence that we were there for the Big Snow of ‘08 but what’s likely to happen is we will be 1 cm short of the record and it will only be a footnote to the “Really Really Big Snow of ‘72″. I was there! This is nothing, except I am much older and have MUCH less tolerance so don’t ever say “Bring It On” to Old Man Winter… He may accept the challenge.

By: Don Mills Don

Don Mills Don — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:30:26 +0000

I’m impressed with your attitude. I’d like to set the record for something different though – say world’s nicest ass or nicest hair or even coolest blog. Snow? Not so much.

By: David Scrimshaw

David Scrimshaw — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:36:01 +0000

I’m torn about the record. On the one hand, it would be nice to be around for the new record, on the other hand, it’ll be years before we get to lord it over the young folk again.

I love being able to say “you think this is bad? you should have been around for the big blows of ‘70 and ‘71!”

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:57:58 +0000

Owww! I second the arnica and ice! Then a magic bag or hot water bottle for when the muscles start to stiffen up! Ouch!
I discovered a great use for those huge mountains called snow banks. Yesterday with the wet soppy roads – the type that get you all mucky from cars splashing you while you walk home from the bus stop – the spray couldn’t hit me because the snow banks hid me from the cars! Finally – a use for all this snow that doesn’t involve me looking like a tool while falling off sticks-strapped-to-my-feet onto my bruised derrier! Snow – you may continue!

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:49:44 +0000

You will be much stiffer today, 24 hours after you fell. It’s the chemicals in your muscles, the same ones that cause rigor mortis. Most people don’t know but after 24 hours, the rigor is at its most acute and then the chemicals start to dissipate and the body goes limp again. So in 48 hours, you won’t be as stiff and sore. I have fallen down our basement stairs which are bare wood like yours. It is no fun but at least there is a landing which stopped me half way. Also Uma fell down the same stairs and ever after, refused to go into the basement. When I rip out the carpet (finally) upstairs and put down hardwood this summer, I will re-carpet the stairs to prevent this sort of thing. Maybe you could consider a nice carpet runner, professionally installed? I say professionally because years ago when I was a student and rented a place, the landlady put a runner on the stairs and used brass rods on each step to keep it in place but the rods kept ripping out and every so often, we’d step on a stair and the carpet would come loose and there’d be much crashing and swearing, similar to your well-described “ow” series.

By: Oma

Oma — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:42:25 +0000

All you win is bragging rights.

By: cinnamon gurl

cinnamon gurl — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Ouch! I fell down some very steep hard stairs in South Africa and the bruises were enormous! I cried when I got to the bottom… so I know how much it sucks.

86 cm seems like A LOT of snow… but holy sh*t – 50 cm this weekend??? We’re getting somewhere between 15 and 25 I think up here in the tropics and I seriously don’t know where it’s all going to go. I hope we all set records so that we talk about the winter of 08 the way people are currently reminiscing about 71 (apparently my dad had to walk to the hospital every day through shoulder-high snow when my sister was born).

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:56:07 +0000

What will we win if we beat the record? That’s what I want to know.