The winter is one of those seasons that I try to, well… overlook. But that is an impossibility because on days like today, I suppose in honor of MLK, Jr day just being a national holiday wasn’t enough, the universe decided to “bless” ( she says cringing) us with a whole load of SNOW! Most people are thrilled with this fact, all my school teacher friends are loving life and giggles all day( they are dead to me now), every adult that still has that childlike joy for glorious snow are living their best lives(they are dead to me now) and there are all those precious children who still have hopes of a day filled with snowmen, snowball fights and snocream for which some will grow up to become teachers or adults with childlike hearts still( all of which are still dead to me!) it’s a conspiracy I say!

Further more.. I have the nagging feeling that this is only happening to me, yes I said it, this tragic awfully cold frozen tundra is all to torment me. In case no one realizes it.. it’s my world and y’all are just living in it! The world really does revolve around me! Also my super kind husband who I think used to love snow but has abandoned that cult and come over to my side. All four of my adult children hate it now also, working jobs and having to drive in it tends to do that. We are the only ones on earth that rebuke the insidiously awful “blessing” of snow. There surely cannot be snow in heaven?

Maybe I need to read up on that, are there books? Is there a holy scripture that describes frozen water in heaven? Surely not….. I think that Europeans don’t even use ice in their drinks( not that I have ever been, but I read) so my rationale is that Jesus was born in Nazareth and that’s in the neighborhood of Europe so leads me to think ice is not a thing.. there… in heaven. Okay I got that cleared up, good! So my need to hate snow must be a basic fear of all things cold… which of course is a basic life pattern for a person of my age for which I wear sweaters, a good invention for that. There is never any need for snow in my life especially one that covers the whole world ( my world I mean) when even the roads are impassable which hits all my being trapped phobias..stuck without a way out… it’s only Monday and I’ll be itchy by Tuesday nite to drive somewhere but it appears this snow is determined. Huge flakes, packed in high and tight!

I am sure that I may be the most ridiculous person in the world( my world) but this is normal for me. My brain is old but my heart is full of silly and when life doesn’t go the way I expected it to well…. I just have to laugh and try to make the best of it. Even trying to interject my inner Lorelei Gilmore (The Gilmore Girls) who can smell snow coming, who loves snow and who makes it seem wonderful …nope, I still don’t like it! This stuff snow is a natural part of life on earth and even living in the nearly most southern part of Tennessee doesn’t help, as a matter of fact we got the most.. how and why is that possible? We live closer to the beach than ever before.. only six hours away.. a mere short car ride yet here we are with it piled up… and yes I have googled to find pretty towns in northern Florida! But …. It is Florida so that’s not a good choice.

So far so good, our heat is still working and the electricity is still on so I have hope we will ( in my world) live through this snowmaggeden! I will just sit here and take pictures of red birds and woodpeckers in the snow .. they are pretty but I will keep fingers crossed for an early spring, looking on the bright side that this kills all the mosquitoes and bugs for summer. Soon enough my bulbs will sprout and the worst trouble in my world will be weeds in my flower beds. I guess I live in a pretty good world after all! Now for hot chocolate!