Learn the Lingo

Hey folks! I hope you all are surviving the cold blustery weather!! So, if you are a follower/reader, you know I have only lived up here a short time (since April) - so I am used to everything Yooper - the weather, the lingo, the beards (I never have seen SO many people with beards inn one place in my life!)and everything else. I have even taken some of the Yooperisms under my cheesehead wing and enjoyed them myself - the pasty, the cudighi, the lake of course and some of the lingo - ok I refuse to say SOW-NA, cause I am a cheesehead. I am used to the weather - I visited all last winter, where there was more snow I believe. And a lot colder. By the way...the beards up here are not all scraggly and nasty...the Yooper men up here are very proud of their beards and most of them wear them quite nicely.

So let me come to my point - I was at the Career Fair today at NMU - taking applications and resumes for my HBA members. The folks sitting next to me (I will not mention the company name or folks names) were nice people. Until one of them was looking at their smartphone at the weather and saw snow squall and lake effect snow and asked what squall meant and what lake effect meant. -_- That was my expression. If you live up here, you must know these terms. You have to learn to the lingo if you are going to live up here, although, lake effect is not just a U.P. term, right? I mean...there are other lakes, maybe it's just me.

I am on a great Yooper site on Facebook - (Yoopers Rule da World) - and I am on it for the pictures. I love the pictures people post and I have decided I need to get a nice camera, with a nice big lens and zoom capabilities...I have two Nikon Pix cameras and they don't do things justice, the screen is way too small to view the pictures in and I can't see anything. Goals.

So I have not gotten snowed in yet....close tho! The snow did come up over the bottom of the door when we got about 8 inches last week. I did take a snow day. It was a good day.

What is so crazy to me is that I used to be very bitter about winter. I hated it. I hated the thought of going out in the cold, I hated getting all bundled up. Staying in with my blankie and fuzzie socks seemed SO comforting. I am not so bitter anymore since I have moved up here. I don't mind donning my Mad Bomber hat and either my wool military style dress coat or my bright red Carhartt. (I just realize I have been spelling Carhartt wrong my entire life...Tony had to point out the logo on my sweatshirt....Yooper fail). Anyhow, I don't mind going out in the winter anymore. I like walking in the deep snow. I love looking at the ice sculptures, icicles....fat fluffy snowflakes... I don't like driving in it at all, it stresses me. The back of my neck gets giant knots in it from hunching over or grabbing the steering wheel too tight. And I don't like the frigid blustery wind. Who does right? Otherwise, I am not minding winter anymore. WHO AM I!!!!! Still not a Yooper. I still have not figured out the qualifications yet...if I have to live here 7 winters...or what. LOL. Always a Cheesehead.

I drove past the lake this morning (during the blowing whiteout snow conditions) and it looked so dark and eerie.
It looked like a giant wall of fog just sitting on the lake....fog, mist, blowing snow, you could not see any of it.

I believe the UP 200 starts tomorrow. I am hoping to see some sled dogs! Not sure if I will, work calls.

Speaking of work - the UP Builders Show is coming up, March 4th thru the 6th at the Dome. IT is only 4 bucks to get in and there are a lot of free giveaways, you should all come. Stop me if you see me and say HI - I will be one of the gals running around with a bright yellow nametag on (only 2 of us).

All for now - not digging the subzero temps but hey, it is what it is and I love my Mad Bomber hat. I am never cold when I wear it. Ok maybe my legs are cause I have not learned to wear long johns yet.

Stay warm and Toasty! My favorite socks today - bought from Shopko in Marquette for $2.49 on sale - one sock reads LIKE A and the other says BOSS. I love them.

:-) Always freezing - but isn't that what our bearded Yooper men are for? Keeping us warm? I know mine is...:-)

xoxoxox - Lovely frozen thoughts.....S