Daily Mess

I am so sick of winter.  We have had more snow around here than we have had in years, and it has been such a dreary winter that I am afraid I am coming down with cabin fever.  I keep looking out for signs of spring, like buds starting to form on the trees, but it seems it is to no avail.  I’m starting to worry if spring will ever arrive.

I look outside and crave to get out in the garden on a warm spring day, to walk the trail and see the flurry of activity as people brush the cobwebs off of their bikes and roller blades.  I want color to come back to the lawns and the trees and the feeling of renewal you get in the spring.

Maybe that is what I am missing most of all, that sense of renewal, the feeling that anything is possible, of being reborn, of feeling the fresh air and the warmth of sun kissed skin.

Mother nature, if you are listening, get to work, it is time for spring to be sprung.

I don’t like being cold. Especially that cold that seems to go directly down to the bone and make you want to just curl up under a pile of blankets in from of the fireplace. Well, the thing is, I have work to do, I don’t have time to curl up in front of the fireplace, and besides that, the damn thing isn’t working to begin with (it is on my To Get Done List.

So besides complaining to my husband and fending off Chi’s who keep trying to crawl up my legs to suck the last bit of warmth I have in my body for themselves I am stuck here. When they first started talking about Global Warming I thought “great, I will be able to swim all year long and finally get to grow palm trees. I happen to love Palm trees.

I don’t think I have to tell you that I am not seeing any Palm trees outside my window. I guess I should be thankful for the freezing rain yesterday, it washed away the snow so I didn’t have to shovel it. Which all comes back to Global Warming, I have a feeling this is all going to happen 500 years from now when I am long dead and buried, mostly likely dying from frostbite or pneumonia. I feel like I should be asking someone for a refund.

Yes, I do care about the planet to an extent. I think we will all be long dead before we destroy this planet, it is much stronger than I think we believe. Or a comet will come down and crash into us and destroy all life. Ok, so it might heat up for 1/2 a second then before my flesh falls off my skin but that is not what I am hoping for.

It doesn’t have to turn into a tropical island here. High 60’s in the dead of winter and the abilityh to grow Palm trees and not have my feet feel like frozen blocks of ice will do nicely. Mother Nature, come on, give me a break, send a little heat over this way will ya?