I’ll be frank with you, I just have not felt like writing at all this past week. I haven’t really felt like doing much of anything, come to think of it. Winter is killing my spirit.
It’s snowing again right now, and we are expected to get up to 13 inches.
There’s a randomness to how I’m feeling, so there is a randomness to this post. (Ah, delightful symmetry!)
…Thank you to those of you who gave me virtual hugs during this past week. For me and the ones I know, things are headed in the direction of normal, although it’s a weird normal in which this shooting took place. So yes. Forward, together forward… in the words of the NIU fight song.
It’s not really yellow snow. It’s just that I was under the sodium lights when I took this picture. Seriously.
…I’ve been working on my doula certification, and that’s going well. I’m in the middle of compiling a list of community resources for new parents/newly expanded families, and it’s exhausting. I have 44 categories on my list, and I have to (at least) have 1 entry in 30 of those categories. Right now I have 17 categories done, most of those with multiple listings. That part of my spirit has not yet been killed by this damned winter.
…Today I discovered that my old running shoes (which I’ve been wearing as work-a-day shoes) have holes in them. I discovered this while walking through a puddle. Awesome.
…I have also been knitting this whole time and got myself through my first-ever mitten! Hooray! The second one has been started, and is part of my teaching project so I’m not moving very fast. Not that I moved very fast on the first one either.
It’s inside-out here, although this side kind of intrigues me…
…The snowplows are coming through again. I wonder how long this storm will last. We have already shoveled once, and it wasn’t slowing down any when I was out there 2 hours ago.
…One day I will tell you the story of My Left Groin Muscles And How They Broke, but not now. Now it is sufficient to say that they are doing much better and I can walk and turn corners easily and without fear for the first time in years. Thus begins the “get in shape so I don’t hurt” part of my 2008 goals.
…Nights like this, I don’t mind winter so much. It’s pretty, it covers up the crappy bits, and the world gets still and muffled so I feel a little less pressed-upon. (It’s just the whole winter put together that has brung me low)
23 days until spring. 🙂
The photo of the trees in the snow is awesome. We’re getting dumped on today, too…. I can’t wait until, oh I don’t know, June or something.
Okay, I would totally feel the same way about the winter and the snow if I still lived in IL. But, let me tell you. Living in a place with almost NO snow (this year)? It TOTALLY sucks. I swear.
Sorry things are all kinda crappy right now–it will get better.
It sure is beautiful when it is snowing, but I wish it would just magically disappear by 5:30 am for the drive to work. And my snow blower broke so it needs to stop snowing really really soon!
Hope you have a better week this week!
23 days my ass. I don’t care what the calendar says… Spring doesn’t start in NH until May.
I’m beginning to wonder if it will ever come for us. Maybe I wandered into early Narnia? Always winter and never Christmas…
it’s a miracle. we were supposed to get snow as well – at least 6-8 inches – and we got barely a dusting! for once, illinois got more snow than we did. it’s a winter miracle!
except that our streets are covered with at least a 3-inch layer of ice, lots of potholes, and still plenty of snow. did you know we set the record this year, with over 80 inches of snow so far this winter (the record was 76)? i wonder if we get a prize for that…
If I hear “forward together forward” one more time, I am going to start shooting people.
And yes, fuck snow.
Just today, as I was walking into the building, I was just so mad at snow I could kick it’s ass. I just can’t wait for every last molecule to melt down. When all that is left is little piles where the big plow piles used to be, I am gonna go out and kick them all to shit, just out of piss and vinegar.
Remember the enchantment of the first snowfall this winter? The excitement at the prospect of cold, snowy nights? Yeah, me neither.
Adam!
::shocked and indignant::
::chuckles quietly::