Wednesday, February 9, 2011

5 reasons I can tolerate winter, and 5 things that make me pout

The good:
  1. February is a short month.  We're almost halfway there.  Spring happens in March.  That is next month.
  2. Twice this week so far, I caught the 5:20 train home from work, and it was still light when I left the office building
  3. Running in nasty winter weather makes me feel like I'm a super hardcore athlete
  4. With all the moisture in the ground, when the snow finally melts, you know there's going to be lots of green!
  5. I've got great boots and a great poofy winter jacket
 The not-so-good
  1. My black pants seem to be covered in "slush splash" and I think yesterday I might have ripped one of them walking in the snow
  2. Dirty snow doesn't look as pretty as freshly fallen snow
  3. There are still a few houses on the big hill on our street that haven't shoveled their sidewalks, so twice a day I risk breaking my neck walking across 3" of packed ice
  4. Our street is so narrow and the snowbanks so high that we have to do a 3-point-turn just to back out of the driveway
  5. Far too often I take off my boots and promply step onto a hidden puddle of dripped slush in my bare feet.