Aud thought: Cold weather
So I walked outside this morning and of all the insanity....
it's COLD out there!!!! Not just a bit chilly, but full-on COLD!!
I'm experiencing serious mixed emotions about this sudden change of climate in my life. Because, you see, I don't like cold weather so much.
Now there are a few distinct advantages to it becoming so friggin' cold... see below:
1) Chai tea. Despite the fact that I drink it hot year round because I just LIKE it and all the die hard Folgers drinkers are still getting their morning fix from a fresh brewed pot in the middle of JULY and nobody says anything to them... there's just something about a nice cup of chai standing out on the deck while steam gently lifts floats upward. Watching the planes fly overhead of course. Or, if you're in Durant, the neighbors burning their leaves (with cordless/cell phone safely in hand in case of spreading flamage).
2) Sweaters. Ahhh the winter wardrobe... safely banished away at the back of the closet in favor of tank tops and shorts. Wow! I haven't worn this in years... and this year isn't looking promising either. Scratchy ole' thing.
3) Soup. What a powerful substance, this thing called soup. Especially when served in a bread bowl or prepared with the same ingredients as a taco. Enough of my ode to soup.
4) Electric blankets. Never mind the dern thing is as soft as a barbed wire fence, it pleasantly warms the bed with the effectiveness of a.... of a....
electric fence? What's with the fences? I digress.
and of course who could forget...
5) Christmas. Yes, we have finally disclosed the true source of my inspirational writing of the changing seasons. I can absolutely smell Christmas in the air! True, it is just barely fall but we Oklahomans see little difference between fall and winter, so we're not choosey. So let's jump straight from the pool to the tree decorating. It's healthy, it's productive and despite what you think; corporate America continues to insist that everyone is doing it.
But back to Christmas...
I realized today that all of my neighbors are extremely lazy. Not a single Christmas tree in the neighborhood. I find this treason-ess, (get it? TREEsoness. Ha!). So today I introduce the idea to Cill that perhaps WE should be the first to display a tastefully dressed spruce in our window. "Be a trendsetter!" I like to say. Well, I said it just now. Whatever. Cill too was excited about this prospective idea, but insisted that in good neighborly-ness perhaps we should at least withhold our overflowing Christmas spirit until Halloween. Fine. But all you ghosts and goblins beware, you come to my door... you're getting a friggin' candy cane.
In the meantime I fully intend to increase the play counts of all Christmas music in my music library. This is all for good cause of course. If I can subliminally convince one of the neighbors to display a tree, my chances of convincing Cill to get ours out significantly increase.
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I love you
I have loved you all along
and I forgive you
For being away for far too long
it's COLD out there!!!! Not just a bit chilly, but full-on COLD!!
I'm experiencing serious mixed emotions about this sudden change of climate in my life. Because, you see, I don't like cold weather so much.
Now there are a few distinct advantages to it becoming so friggin' cold... see below:
1) Chai tea. Despite the fact that I drink it hot year round because I just LIKE it and all the die hard Folgers drinkers are still getting their morning fix from a fresh brewed pot in the middle of JULY and nobody says anything to them... there's just something about a nice cup of chai standing out on the deck while steam gently lifts floats upward. Watching the planes fly overhead of course. Or, if you're in Durant, the neighbors burning their leaves (with cordless/cell phone safely in hand in case of spreading flamage).
2) Sweaters. Ahhh the winter wardrobe... safely banished away at the back of the closet in favor of tank tops and shorts. Wow! I haven't worn this in years... and this year isn't looking promising either. Scratchy ole' thing.
3) Soup. What a powerful substance, this thing called soup. Especially when served in a bread bowl or prepared with the same ingredients as a taco. Enough of my ode to soup.
4) Electric blankets. Never mind the dern thing is as soft as a barbed wire fence, it pleasantly warms the bed with the effectiveness of a.... of a....
electric fence? What's with the fences? I digress.
and of course who could forget...
5) Christmas. Yes, we have finally disclosed the true source of my inspirational writing of the changing seasons. I can absolutely smell Christmas in the air! True, it is just barely fall but we Oklahomans see little difference between fall and winter, so we're not choosey. So let's jump straight from the pool to the tree decorating. It's healthy, it's productive and despite what you think; corporate America continues to insist that everyone is doing it.
But back to Christmas...
I realized today that all of my neighbors are extremely lazy. Not a single Christmas tree in the neighborhood. I find this treason-ess, (get it? TREEsoness. Ha!). So today I introduce the idea to Cill that perhaps WE should be the first to display a tastefully dressed spruce in our window. "Be a trendsetter!" I like to say. Well, I said it just now. Whatever. Cill too was excited about this prospective idea, but insisted that in good neighborly-ness perhaps we should at least withhold our overflowing Christmas spirit until Halloween. Fine. But all you ghosts and goblins beware, you come to my door... you're getting a friggin' candy cane.
In the meantime I fully intend to increase the play counts of all Christmas music in my music library. This is all for good cause of course. If I can subliminally convince one of the neighbors to display a tree, my chances of convincing Cill to get ours out significantly increase.
- - - - -
I love you
I have loved you all along
and I forgive you
For being away for far too long