But I don’t like Winter...

[katiefoolery]

I keep finding reasons to like Winter.

This is rather disturbing.

I Do Not Like Winter.  It is cold and miserable and I spend all of my time dreaming of Summer and of not wearing a million layers of clothing or having to cope with one’s stupid umbrella breaking in the stupid wind when one needs it for protection against the stupid rain.

But, on the other hand...

In Winter, I get to wear gloves and that means I don’t have to touch metal door-handles or poles on the bus with my bare skin.  This is quite a boon for someone who can’t stand the feel of metal.

In Winter, I get to wear lovely warm coats, such as the wool and cashmere one I bought for my birthday.  It’s incredibly warm and, as an added bonus, it makes me look ridiculously slim.  (As an added added bonus, I got five dollars off the price because one of the buttons was missing and later found said button in one of the pockets.)

Oh, and in Winter, I get to wear boots.  Oh, the boots.  I have such a problem there.  I won’t go into that any further.

As if this sudden gratitude for cold weather wasn’t bad enough, it took a turn for the worse the other day.  I’d just been on a trip to the supermarket across the road in the freezing cold winds of icy doom and I stepped back inside.  My normal reaction upon doing this is to run up to the door behind which the central heating unit resides and shower it with mushy praise and protestations of undying love.  The other day?  I stepped inside and thought: Hmm... it’s a bit too warm in here.

*despairs*

Despite this sudden rather worrying... fondness for cold weather, I still managed to enjoy my birthday.  It was helped along by some amazing people and their equally amazing generosity.  My evil twin, the_kaytinator, sent me a delightful parcel of goodies (the scarf is so warm); etherealdeva and charliemc gave me birthday vgifts; and linnet_101 was very understanding when I accidentally responded to her birthday sms with a single asterisk.  And so many other people did lovely things for me and I’m so grateful for it.  Thank you all. :D

Comments

[peachynat3.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of winter and the many layers it requires also, but I do love my scarf! I also have an issue with touching poles on trains and trams, but mostly because I think too much about people's germs :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I love being rugged up in a lovely warm scarf, too. :D

[saralonde24.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday for the other day, glad to hear you had a nice day :)
I know what you mean about winter. I love curling up in my doona and feeling warm in my overcoat when I have to brace against the cold...but generally I don't like cold weather.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

And happy birthday to you for yesterday! I hope you had a lovely day, too.

I certainly enjoy spending a lot of time standing near the central heating vents in our house... and that's something I can't do in Summer. I suppose Winter does have little joys after all. :)

[wikidwitch.livejournal.com]

I love winter! Especially when you're all snuggled up in twenty-seven layers and the air is cold and you can't feel your nose ... :D

But I don't like waking up and finding that every bit of the sheets is freaking freezing and every tiny move is a lesson in cold.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Oh yes, the bit where you can't feel your nose is always... an experience. Or when my fingertips are so cold that I actually flinch away from them if I touch my face.

Getting up in the morning is the worst! Delaying it just makes it worse, too.

[sarsalot.livejournal.com]

Happy (belated) birthday, good Bunne! I blame my tardiness on the fact that if I'm not writing class notes, it takes me approximately three days to forget everything but what year it is (and even then, I'm a bit slow).
Winter brings storms. And the excuse to have flannel sheets. And a heater toasting one's legs. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Sars. :D

Winter certainly brings lots of excuses to stay inside. But I haven't had flannel sheets since I was little. :( They're so delicious warm, aren't they? I really need to invest in some new ones...

[flamehail.livejournal.com]

Happy happy belated birthday! Whee!

Haha, it's winter where you are. =P I will send you some of this icky humid heat Freiburg is having. I'd rather it be cold than warm: You can keep adding layers, but there's only so many you can take off. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly. :D

Ooh, I've love to take that icky humid heat off your hands! I'll send you some freezing mornings and icy winds in return.

[flamehail.livejournal.com]

Haha, fair enough. It's a trade. ^_^

[naelany.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* You so need to learn to knit, then you'll really learn to love winter ^_~

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I can knit - I'm just too lazy to do it much. :D

[naelany.livejournal.com]

Well shame on you! Think of all the lovely warm things you could knit yourself, to make Winter more fun ^_~

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

Happy (belated) Birthday! Glad you had a nice day!

So, winter...there are things I like about it, too - warm bowls of soup, ice skating, the sound the snow makes when you crunch through the sparkly layer on top, the shimmer of ice on tree branches, the frost that forms on the horses' muzzles when they come to the fence for their warm water and yummies...

But I so muchly prefer summer!!!
*loving this hot weather in Missouri!*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I forgot about the soup! I love that too. Now I'm trying to remember what it is I hate about Winter...

*is envious of your lovely hot weather*

[wldhrsjen3.livejournal.com]

My main problem with winters here is the darkness. I *hate* it when the sun sets in late afternoon and I have *hours* of darkness staring me in the face. I love hazy summer evenings that last so long! :)

But there is a lot to love about winter too... Now that I'm not in school anymore I find that I can appreciate the changing seasons so much more!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Ack, I detest the early darkness! I leave when it's dark and I get back home when it's dark. :( There's no fun at all in that.

[joyinthedance.livejournal.com]

I feel kinda the same about winter (though it seems pretty far away to me in the US!) - I thought I hated it but when it comes around there are little things that get me excited. Glad you had a fun birthday!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Summer seems far away for me now. :( And my friends list is full of people enjoying it, too. I want it back.

[murfgirl.livejournal.com]

I despise winter. Stay warm, my friend!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I shall indeed. :D My computer is next to a central heating vent - it's lovely.

Only two and a bit months to go before Spring...

[arieo.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Happy belated birthday! :)
Ack, noo!! I think you've been spending too much time appreciating winter :P Though I like wearing gloves too..it means I have no skin-to-skin contact with public transport :S

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Arien. :D

And yes, I think I have. I bet I'll have changed my tune once I get back from my trip to Canberra in the middle of the holidays. It's going to be so coooooollllld...

[drscruffy.livejournal.com]

Happy Somewhat Belated Birthday, Bunne....

*looks guilty* I'm sure I have an excellent excuse here somewhere, I just seemed to have misplaced momentarily...

I love winter - I love them warm coats, and yummy boots, and roaring fires and the sensation of being rugged up snug and warm. However, if you *can't* get the warm coats, or the yummy boot... If you *can't* find a roaring fire, and your body simply refuses to be snug and warm, regardless of how rugged up you are, then I can understand that winter might be a bit dreary...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

*eats the delicious birthday cake icon*

Thank-you muchly. :D

I'm the freak in my family, because of my love of hot weather. Everyone else loves the cold. And now I think they've infected me...

[sirgallivant.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to thee! :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good knight. :D

[chunkymonkey24.livejournal.com]

Happy Somewhat Belated Birthday, Bunne....

*looks guilty* I'm sure I have an excellent excuse here somewhere, I just seemed to have misplaced momentarily...

Seconded. Eeps. Glad you had muchly fun :)

I like Winter. At least it's actually a proper season here, unlike this fake Summer we're having at the moment. Flooding and stormy evilness is not my idea of Summer. Although, I suppose after enduring 21 British summers I shouldn't really expect anything else from this one. But I do. Obviously.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Lucy! You're still around! :D Thank-you muchly for the birthday wishes.

I hope your Summer starts to improve. It still has a couple of months to go... you never know - it might come to its senses and start being warm and sunny instead of stormy and floody.

Funny quote

[(Anonymous)]

We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night,
we'd bark ourselves.
-- Crazy Jimmy


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