Fun Fact #21: Today was a day of firsts

It was snowing hardcore today in Pittsburgh, therefore I had a variety of new experiences:

1) I drove in the snow, intense snow, for the first time ever. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but that may be because I was being freakishly cautious. I don't think I've ever driven as slowly as I drove today.

2) I woke up to snow covered streets. It was a really beautiful sight, but it wasn't as beautiful after I trudged my way to the gym. The wind was so strong that I opened the door of my building and was almost blown back inside.

3) I bought an ice scraper and scraped ice and snow off my car. I also learned that driving through the snow can make a clean car absolutely filthy.

4) I was able to make a snow angel on my porch. It was pretty cool.

5) I was finally able to make the snow and maple syrup concotion that I had read about in the Little House books. And sadly, it wasn't as good as I had always imagined it would be. I think I may have put too much syrup on the snow because it was sickeningly sweet. I totally would have loved it when I was five.

6) I listened to Christmas music and it actually described what I was seeing outside. Listening to "Winter Wonderland" or "White Christmas" is way cooler driving through snowy Pittsburgh than sunny San Diego.

Fun Fact #20: Pittsburgh is definitely a hunting town

Today I was driving to Target when I looked in my review mirror and almost vomited. There, right behind me, was a car with a DEAD DEER hooked to the top. It wasn't covered up or anything. It's not like I was driving through some backwoods area where I'd expect to see poor dead Bambis. No, I was on a busy road, stuck in traffic, surrounded by at least one hundred other cars.

The deer had obviously been gutted and you could see the open cavity (including blood!!) when the car was behind me. I could see poor Bambi's face and the bullet hole in its head when the car pulled ahead of me. I managed to get a picture of the deer when the car was beside me, so I could share my horror with the world.

Pittsburgh is just such a weird city sometimes, I've never seen anything like this elsewhere. It actually made me miss all the hippies of Eugene.