Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Good morning cyberspacers, isn't this weather just peachy? (Please note, this past sentence is dripping with sarcasm.)

Despite how beautiful snow is, and how much fun the stuff can be, the majority of the time I heavily despise the stuff. I wouldn't draw my disdain for the fluff as far as to say that I hate it, but for future knowledge I completely realize that at some point later this season, I will say that I hate it. Outside right now is a very pretty, very glamorous winter wonderland... Okay now, the snow is coming down way too fast to fulfill my ideas of a winter wonderland.

It's not as if I don't love playing in snow. In the past there were many years where my friends and I would play outside until our faces were red and our toes and fingertips were numb, partly due to the fact that I would always wear very light gloves when making snowballs, since personally, I think they pack better with the heat of hands when you're forming them. However, when I moved up to Minnesota I was outside less. In Iowa I lived in a large apartment complex complete with a tacky little courtyard so I could walk 3 doors down to my friend's house and we could go play without my mom freaking out since she could just look outside and see me. When we moved here I didn't live anywhere near any of my friends. I would still go to a friend's house every once in a while and we could play there, but it just wasn't the same as being able to go play with someone else in the snow whenever the thought came into my mind.

A big part of my disdain for the fluff right now is commuting to and from school. Last year I had rides to and from school all winter. This year is quite a contrast from the past, this year I'm taking the bus, which at times is including a ten minute layover. IT'S REALLY COLD WHEN YOU WAIT OUTSIDE FOR THE BUS FOR THAT LONG.

Despite this heavy disdain for snow, I don't think I could ever live somewhere that never had any snow. To me despite how much I complain about this weather it's just something I need to learn to put up with, because when it comes down to it, the years in the past where I've been somewhere for Christmas that doesn't have snow, part of it just doesn't feel right.