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Wordless Wednesday ~ Waiting For Summer

Posted in Wordless Wednesday, tagged chair, snow, summer, weber grill, winter on March 12, 2014| 2 Comments »

Stir Crazy

Posted in Blogging, tagged blogging, cabin fever, winter, writing on March 10, 2014| 7 Comments »

My blogging life has pretty much come to a halt. What’s with that?! I don’t know if it’s cabin fever or a bona fide mental disorder.

Lord knows the cabin fever thing is valid. All I do is stay home and go to work. Go to work and stay home. I’m pretty much a hermit anyway, but having weather and roads that make staying in a comfort and/or safety issue kind of limits my choices. Apparently having the option of going somewhere or doing something outside the house or work has a tremendous impact on my mental state, whether I actually take advantage of those options or not.

Having a bona fide mental disorder is also valid, but we won’t get into that.

Truth be told I’ve lost my motivation, or so it feels to me. Some people might look at my life and think I’m the most productive person in the world. Some other people (hi, Charlotte) would go insane being as inert as I am. I’ve slowed down to a crawl when it comes to my housekeeping and business endeavors, but when it comes to blogging? I’ve stopped dead in my tracks.

I want to write, I want to blog. I think there’s probably something churning inside as a result of the introverted/extroverted personality concept ~ a conflict of sorts. I’m generally an introvert, but there’s an obvious extrovert in my life who has made an impact on my writing. Her actions of late have made me want to clam up and hide the extroverted behavior of blogging. Hey, I think I just figured it out!

Thing is, there are all sorts of reasons why my blogging has been so sluggish lately. I want to write. I want to blog. I just don’t know what to say.

And so I trudge on…

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Surviving The Winter of 2014

Posted in Everyday, tagged cold, Minnesota, snow, winter on February 26, 2014| 4 Comments »

OK, it’s been two weeks since I last posted anything and I feel just terrible. Not because I haven’t been entertaining the masses, but because I haven’t written. I want to write, but I don’t write. I read, but I don’t write. What’s wrong with me?

Today the answer came to me. It’s this dang winter that’s bringing me down. I hate it when all people can talk about is the weather, and I hate it even more when people in Minnesota complain about snow and cold because, seriously, you live in Minnesota and what do you expect? But this winter is different. This winter even has me complaining.

It’s been bitterly cold and massively snowy for three solid months. A lot of people might think “bitterly cold” is anything at the freezing mark (32 degrees F), but I’m talking sub-zero freaking degrees…for months on end. OK, maybe not sub-zero for three months solid, but I can’t remember the last time we reached a wind-chill factor over twenty degrees F.

I love winter. Really, I do. It’s a wonderful time to lie dormant like everything else. It’s quiet time. It’s cozy time. But people around here are obsessed and have turned ugly for the fact that they can’t even go outside without their faces hurting. Everyone’s crabby. And those that aren’t crabby are sickeningly positive saying how beautiful the world is covered with the pure white snow and glistening ice. We all know the people who are being positive are just trying to compensate for the car that won’t start or the driveway that needs shoveling before going to work.

There’s going to be a day not too far in the future when everyone around here will be complaining about the heat and humidity and they’ll be wishing for a sub-zero day with -75% humidity.

Me, personally? I’m crabby too. I’m stir crazy and just wishing I could get to the day job on a road that isn’t coated with two inches of ice. I’m tired of shivering. I’m tired of hearing, “cold enough for you?” I’m tired of listening to people who are tired of this winter.

There. I’m ashamed of this rant but I got it out of my system. I’ve had enough of this winter. I would like some temperatures above 25 degrees F. I would love the wind to die down to about 5 mph. March is my least favorite month of the year, but I hope this year it brings a little bit of warmth. Minnesota can surely use it.

Current temperature: 8 degrees F. Wind: 34 mph. Windchill factor: -35 degrees F.