Brr, It's Chilly

Dear Whoever You Might Be,
      Are you surviving the Snowpocalypse of 2014? I am... Although, I wish it weren't even around to have to survive? I know everyone is all "OMG no school, no work!!! Yayy!" but from me to you, I am done with all the snow. Finished. Over it. The funny thing is, I never thought I would say that.   
      I have always considered myself a "winter" person. I used to dream of these kind of snow storms. Living in Maryland growing up, we usually had mildish winters with the occasional big storm once every few years. And even though we never really got exponential amounts of snow (unlike this year), I found is amusing when I went to college in North Carolina and was surrounded by a slew of people who had never even seen snow, or had only seen flurries. Now, as a resident of New Jersey, my lifelong friendship with snow is turning sour. It is beautiful at first, and if there was no need to shovel or leave the house or walk the dog, I think the snow and I would still be on good terms. But there is a need to shovel, and leave the house, and walk the dog. The east coast has seen a ridiculous amount of snow this winter season, and I am just ready for spring.
    I would say that once winter is over I will miss the boots and scarves and jackets. But let's be honest people -you cannot wear cute leather boots in the snow. You only wear the scarves to wrap around your face and end up looking like you belong as a Bollywood dancer. And unless you are rocking a designer label snow coat, we all just end up looking like bundled summa wrestlers with all the layering. I am not a snob when it comes to bundling, but it gets a bit redundant having to wrap and unwrap the thirty thousand items of clothing needed to keep warm and dry in such weather.
      I just finished reading Watership Down by Richard Adams and reading it made me ready for springtime even more. It was about rabbits and reading the descriptions of thy breeze blowing through the warm grass on the hillside and running through a field of flowers just made me long to see the trees blossoming and the sun staying out past 5pm. I think that if we had a bunny instead of a groundhog predicting the weather then it would be spring sooner than six more weeks....
      There is really not much more to say about all this than I already did because basically everyone everywhere is talking about the snow. I think it is probably trending more right now than the Olympics.
                                                                        Sincerely,
                                                                                 Me