Minnesota, You've Lost That Charming Feeling...

Anyone living in or around MN knows what I am talking about - we're over winter. Hear that Mother Nature?! OVER. IT. Not one to usually complain about MN winters, because, DUH, I chose to keep living in this state - exclaimed the other day, in my head,

"WHY DO I LIVE HERE?!" 

It has been so cold this winter and filled with so much snow that schools have been closed. Not onece, not twice, but FIVE times so far this MONTH alone. I'll just let that sink in for a minute while I go make some hot chocolate.

Now, having a husband that is a school teacher, there was much rejoicing, and then much angst (how will all the testing get done...then how will all the grading get done in time...-it's a delicate balance, I have come to learn). All I have had to say to that is, "Shut up and go back to the gloriously comfy warm bed that I just pried myself from, you lucky, lucky man."

I work at a place that I think prides itself on its rugged, toughness.Our place of work did not close. Once. Never mind that the governor pretty much closed the state...but we still went to work. It wasn't too bad. More just the principle of the matter.

Fast forward today - and we get six inches of snow dumped on us during the AM rush hour. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get to work this morning. I think I could feel myself getting older! Crazy.

So, pretty much just a cold weather post - to tell myself and everyone else that I am over it. haha. Too bad it will last another four months!

Maybe it's time to take a trip somewhere warm...

-LD