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A month ago, I sat outside in my short sleeves.  Apparently, winter has finally decided to grace us with its fluffy presence.  This whole not-being-in-school thing that I keep referring to seriously makes everything that once seemed regular or (I don't really know the term I'm looking for) those 'mundane'-on-the-verge-of-or-even-on-par-with-'exasperating' common occurrences seem new again.  I'm talking about winter in general.

For example, on the first day of this big snow dump (meaning Thursday morning after it began Wednesday evening), I had to get up early, shovel my car out, scrape the windshield/de-snow the car, and actually let the car run awhile while doing so for it to warm up before driving it (not to mention simply hoping it would start- you see, for the past 4 years, I've lived in dorms/apartments with landlords who do the shovelling...I was always just concerned with walking in the damned cold).  After all this, I arrive at work before my key-holder only to get a call from her saying that she's stuck.  A short time later, she floats (yes, floats) across the snow in front of my store and promptly gets stuck again.  She got stuck on Queenston, she aimed to park on Brock....I pushed her car an entire block (about a 15-20 minute process).  Needless to say, that was my first of that for the winter season.  Here's the horrible equation:

Ridiculously light sports car + non-winter tires = nope.

It's funny though, remember how I mentioned awhile back when it first lightly snowed and I enjoyed it?  Well, I can't say I'm loooooving the snow right now, but to be honest, I'm really not hating it.  Even after my huge Thursday morning ordeal.  I'm shivering to the bone, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my car will start, I'm driving slower than I like, yet still I'm not cursing the world for its frigid state.  But like I also mentioned, I know that I will yearn for the warmth again.  All's I'm sayin' is that I'm not Holly Hater right now, and I'm savouring it while it lasts.

Probably Christmas anticipation.

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Fun Fact of the day:  I ate my first Christmas orange this week.  I actually stopped before my first bite, closed my eyes, and let the Christmas memories and excitement flood my mind.  Got my roommate in on it too.  Loved it so much, I bought a box of them today.  Om nom nom!