Winter is coming

But it feels like it’s already here. I love winter! As a knitter, I love how all the gloves and hats and scarves I make are suddenly useful. I love how as soon as it starts to get chilly out, it feels like Christmas. Hot drinks taste better and are more fun, especially after coming in from a walk in the cold, and making dessert suddenly becomes “festive.” And when it snows, everything is magical.

I LOVE it.

But then, by the end of winter, I HATE it. I hate having to put on extra clothes before leaving the house, and taking them back off again when I come in. I hate how it hurts my nose to go outside. I hate how my pantlegs always get soggy in the cold rain/slush/snow. Winter is always fun going into it, but a pain in the ass on the way out. And last year, winter lasted FOREVER. It was cold and bitter and it snowed harder than it ever snows here, and the snow stayed, and there were giant mounds of dirty nasty slush piled up in the parking lots, and those really stayed. Last year our winter lasted so long, it was still winter when it should have been spring. It was almost still winter when it was supposed to be almost summer, but then it finally left.

It’s colder now than it should be this time of year. If October feels like December, what will December feel like? Right now, I’m happy that the seasons are changing, that something new is happening, and I can easily blow off the thought that we might have seven months of this, and that this happy chill in the air and freezingness at night is just the beginning.

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