It’s no secret that I’m a summer girl. I love the sunshine, the warm breeze, the long days, the trees full of leaves, the smell of fresh cut grass.. all of it. Shorts, flip-flops, and tan lines… doesn’t get much better than that… living life like a Jimmy Buffett song. Also, there’s that little thing called summer break. I love having my kiddo all to myself for those 3 months (give or take) out of the year. No waking up early, no alarm clocks, no packing lunches, no homework.. absolutely no hustle and bustle whatsoever.
Seriously.. Christmas is all winter is good for and Christmas is over, so now I’m ready for Jack Frost to get to packing. Winter is just icky. All the sickness gives my inner germaphobe an eye twitch… the sneezing.. the coughing.. just all around germy, flu-like nastiness. No. Thank. You. Hand sanitizer is my friend. We’re tight.. like PB&J.
Another thing the irks me about winter… I hate coats… literally loathe them. I don’t see how people up north tolerate really frigid temperatures. We actually get by pretty easy compared to some places. I wouldn’t survive. I just know it. I am a wuss with a capital ‘W’. I’ll admit it. No shame.
This was the first super cold day that I had to break out the coat, coat. Normally, I try to get by with a ‘light’ jacket for as long as possible.
My feet stay cold.. my skin stays too dry and my hands are chapped from all the extra hand washing. Blah! My language is so much more colorful during the winter.. nothing like trying to pump gas with a 90mph minus 50 wind blowing the entire time. I’m ashamed at some of the words muttered under my breath during these times. I’ve tried the whole ‘mind over matter thing’.. chanting ‘it’s 75 and sunny.. it’s 75 and sunny’. Yeah, that crap doesn’t work.
The countdown to summer has officially begun.
160 days… 19 hours.. 56 minutes and 19 seconds.
Bring on the sunshine.
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