Winter?

Last day of winter break and I've felt bad about not having a New Year's Resolution. So I'll try this out. That Just Happened.

The problem with living in the valley almost my entire life is I'm use to a winter that hardly qualifies as fall for the rest of the world. I'm use to bike riding on December 31st or needing a blanket when the temperature drops just under 50 degrees. Pathetic? Probably.... I also have a somewhat irrational fear of snow. I think it's pretty, but when you get down to it snow is frozen pieces of water falling from the sky that lock people into their houses and screw up traffic. For those reasons, and a few unsuccessful trips to see snow, is why I avoid it. I don't snowboard or ski. I've built one snowman and sledded just enough to say I've done it before (ice blocking provides about the same thrill and it has a plus, you know nothing is hiding in the snow ready to jump out and seriously injure you).

Enter time to choose a college. Well crap, most of the places I'm considering have SNOW!!!!! It will literally be freezing, not 45 degrees and I'll have to wake up, move around, and think in that weather. :/ I still have time to prep and choose an institution of higher learning, but this winter and next, I'm thankful I'm in the Valley of the Sun.