Well I tell you what… this winter is really throwing me for a loop.
I don’t know what it’s like in your part of the world, but here it’s warm. Not like let’s-go-swimming warm, but warm enough that my new winter boots are getting awfully jealous of my old flats. And my flats are feeling just a little… used. My closet has started taking sides, with the scarves and mittens hurling shameful insults at the t-shirts. It’s just a mess.
Normally at this time of year, we’re knee-deep in awful, horrid, freezing snow. Plans are usually being cancelled because the latest snow storm is preventing me from driving to the end of my road. Each day normally commences with a ceremonial glance outside, fingers crossed with a hope for dry conditions and ultimately a silent (or audible, depending on the day) curse at the housing market that has planted me firmly in freezing, snowy Utah with no escape back to sunny California.
This year, the ceremonial glances are still occurring. But each day, I feel like I am looking out a California window — and not even a California window in January. More like a California window in April. It’s just that nice outside.
I should be happy about this wonderful weather, but I’m having a hard time dealing with this shift. Yesterday, I gingerly and very timidly stepped outside for a walk with my bundled babies. I was worried the good weather was all in my head, and as soon as we were two feet away from our house, the weather gods would throw their vengeance upon me in the form of a blinding blizzard. (“How dare you think you can waltz around outside this time of year? We’ll show you!” Eh… Something like that…) We were all sweating by the time we got home. What kind of trick is this?
This is just so out of the ordinary that I feel wrong enjoying it. There has to be some sort of repercussion for such a great gift, doesn’t there? Even now, as I bask in the sunlight from my window, I can’t help but feel an awful gloom and dread. Somebody slap me, and tell me to go dance in the sunny streets!
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I’m too am all weirded out. I dread the thought that it will come, but like Mormon standard time it will be here late… Just so you know I am not a fan of snow in June, So get on with it!~ Just Snow for pete sake!
YOU JINXED IT!!!!
it is pretty though!
We finally have had a couple days of rain and cold in California…I’ll admit the warmer weather was starting to creep me out! I’m used to peacoats and hoodies, and it was seriously just t-shirt weather for awhile.