OK, the holidays are over, the Christmas stuff is packed back up in its box and is in its place in the back of the bedroom closet for another year.....so the snow can also go away now. We had our lovely - and rare, surprising, given that we live in the snow belt in NE Ohio - white Christmas. I've had quite enough of scraping ice off of my car, crawling over snow covered roads and tromping around in my steel toed safety shoes that have to double as boots for now since I do not have any. I'm tired of hats, coats, scarves, gloves, heavy clothes that leave me feeling like a walking marshmallow....it can all just go the heck away now! I'm tired of worrying about slipping on ice and falling down my apartment steps, which, by the way, happened on Saturday morning. No damage, fortunately, but it did provide a scare that something might get damaged and I don't have enough medical insurance to take care of that. I'm tired of worrying about falling down, period, because I am at that age when calcium becomes an important consideration in a woman's life in order to maintain good bone density. So suffice it to say, I am sick, sick, sick to tears of this long, cold, dreary season. Calgon, take me away!
This, friends, is where I'd rather be right now. Take me away to a white sandy beach with green, green palm trees, azure blue skies and warm surf, a tropical paradise where the sun always shines and temperatures hover around 80 degrees. I could use a break right now from days that are full of monochromatic tones of white, black and grey. I miss the warm breath of spring, the beautiful flowers and their perfumed scent that fills the air, I miss the songs of birds in the trees.....Oh, I know those things will eventually happen. Of course, we don't have palm trees or white sandy beaches (OK, we have Lake Erie, but.....it's not the same as being at the ocean!), but we'll have warm days and nights, we'll have the birds back singing in the trees again, we'll have sunny days again, blue skies, flowers blooming...but right now, it just feels so distant, so far away. But it will be here before you know it.
OK, the holidays are over, the Christmas stuff is packed back up in its box and is in its place in the back of the bedroom closet for another year.....so the snow can also go away now. We had our lovely - and rare, surprising, given that we live in the snow belt in NE Ohio - white Christmas. I've had quite enough of scraping ice off of my car, crawling over snow covered roads and tromping around in my steel toed safety shoes that have to double as boots for now since I do not have any. I'm tired of hats, coats, scarves, gloves, heavy clothes that leave me feeling like a walking marshmallow....it can all just go the heck away now! I'm tired of worrying about slipping on ice and falling down my apartment steps, which, by the way, happened on Saturday morning. No damage, fortunately, but it did provide a scare that something might get damaged and I don't have enough medical insurance to take care of that. I'm tired of worrying about falling down, period, because I am at that age when calcium becomes an important consideration in a woman's life in order to maintain good bone density. So suffice it to say, I am sick, sick, sick to tears of this long, cold, dreary season. Calgon, take me away!
This, friends, is where I'd rather be right now. Take me away to a white sandy beach with green, green palm trees, azure blue skies and warm surf, a tropical paradise where the sun always shines and temperatures hover around 80 degrees. I could use a break right now from days that are full of monochromatic tones of white, black and grey. I miss the warm breath of spring, the beautiful flowers and their perfumed scent that fills the air, I miss the songs of birds in the trees.....Oh, I know those things will eventually happen. Of course, we don't have palm trees or white sandy beaches (OK, we have Lake Erie, but.....it's not the same as being at the ocean!), but we'll have warm days and nights, we'll have the birds back singing in the trees again, we'll have sunny days again, blue skies, flowers blooming...but right now, it just feels so distant, so far away. But it will be here before you know it.
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