The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

19 January 2007

Some like it not so hot

It would be unreasonable to expect that everyone shared my disdain for the winter, and sure enough, Sarah doesn't:

Perhaps I have some sort of weird, backwards version of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Winter is the time of year when, oddly enough, I feel honest-to-God happy. Summer is when I'm miserable. Sunlight hurts my eyes, and gives me a headache. The oppressively humid Oklahoma heat makes me tired, sluggish and downright suicidal.

On the other hand, few things compare to standing before a foggy window in my cozy house, clad in my flannel pajamas and fuzzy slippers, looking out at the sparkling wonder that is my front yard. Gone is the drab, brown grass — it's hidden beneath soft, thick blankets of whiteness. I love to count the icicles hanging from the bumper of my neighbor's car. I love watching the school closings scroll across the top of my television screen, as I eagerly search for my place of employment. Will I get to go in two hours late the next day? Or even better, not at all? Even the parking lot piles of ugly, exhaust-stained ice make me smile.

I hope she's getting enough Vitamin D. And really, I don't mind cold, particularly; I just don't like certain of its traffic-impeding effects. (And we didn't have any "soft, thick blankets of whiteness" last time around: that stuff came down hard and stayed that way.)

It doesn't bother Melessa either:

I have not left this house since I arrived here at 2 p.m. last Friday and I am LOVING it. Even almost a week into it, I don't feel a bit of cabin fever. Should I be worried?

When you should worry is when you feel cabin fever after an hour and a half.

Posted at 10:00 AM to Weather or Not


I love the cold too! I hope that we get more tonight/weekend (and not just because we need the water).

Posted by: this&that at 1:03 PM on 19 January 2007

I grew up in South Florida then spent several winters in Virginia, Germany, Western NY and Nebraska.

Thanks but I'll stick with Arizona winters for a while.

Posted by: David at 2:25 PM on 19 January 2007

Yeah, the sleet from last weekend wasn't quite as soft and thick as I'd like, but at least it kind of looked that way from indoors. I could pretend, at least...

And I have my fingers crossed that we get some of the real stuff this weekend.

Posted by: Sarah at 3:49 PM on 19 January 2007

I've been quoted on Dustbury.com. I feel so famous now. (And I still haven't left the house.)

Posted by: Melessa at 7:10 PM on 19 January 2007

This is the first Friday in 4 weeks we haven't had a snowstorm, and I mean a big snowstorm. As much as I love snow, and I do love it, I'm sort of happy it didn't snow today, but I hear we have another storm on the way. I'm a bit tired of snow already. I find myself longing for warm Spring breezes.

Posted by: Heather at 11:40 PM on 19 January 2007