My Gawd I cannot wait for Spring! I
hate the freaking winter time. Its too cold, and I don't like cold.
I want to go outside and play and I have been stuck in the house for
months. It might not be so bad, but I discovered a new hobby last
summer and I was just getting started figuring out what I was doing
when it got too cold outside and I couldn't play anymore.
My new hobby is dyeing and embellishing
fabric. Due to the layout and contents of our home, this is an
outdoor hobby for me. It works out well since both the dyes and my
body require temperatures over 72 degrees in order to function
correctly. Outside I don't have to worry about the residues or the
mess, the grass might have red and purple spots for a day or two, but
it always washes away. The paintstiks and dye sticks I started
playing with are also outdoors – or at least out of the house
projects. They stink. I usually play with them in my sewing room,
but it has to be warm enough to have the window and door open. I
haven't even gotten to “set” the pieces I painted last Fall yet
as they definitely have to be done outside since heat setting really
releases the fumes!
The fact that my flower beds are all
completely overgrown with crab grass hasn't escaped my notice either.
I know I will have Spring bulbs coming up pretty soon, if they can
fight their way through the tangles. I'd love to go out there and
start cleaning it out, but it will be another month or more before I
can brave the elements long enough to get anything done. I guess I
could put on my insulated coveralls and my gloves and go out there
and get started, but I won't, I am too wimpy.
Spring has always been my favorite time
of year and I have always gotten restless the last month or two of
winter. Whether you choose to call it “Spring Fever” or
“Seasonal Affective Disorder, or whatever name you want to put on
it, the end of winter tends to drive me crazy. I hate feeling
confined, and even though I really don't like to go anywhere very
often anyway, the cold really keeps me from doing a lot of things.
I don't have an internal temperature
control, at least not a functioning one. I have always been
sensitive to temperature extremes. As a teenager I suffered heat
exhaustion several times and as an adult I was hospitalized with a
severe heat stroke, Since then I have learned I have to regulate my
body temperature from the outside, or pay the consequences. So in
the winter I am sitting in the house with three layers of clothes on,
taking a hot bath two or three times a day just to be able to feel
my feet. And in the summer when it hits 90 degrees and up? Well
that's actually easier now that I discovered the ultimate “poor
man's air-conditioning”, drenching a t-shirt in water, wringing it
out and putting in on is freaking awesome for keeping cool when it is
hot! I know, I am weird, but a girl has got to do what a girl has
got to do. Now if I could just find something that worked equally
well for keeping me warm! Oh well, for now I will just keep plugging
along at all my winter chores while I dream of warmer days and
greener hands.
A timely blog post, Mother. I know how you feel. It's been miserable and grey and wet (snow I can handle, but rain - ick) for months. Like you, I work from home. While I don't HAVE to go out, and often don't WANT to go out, I HATE the fact that I CAN'T go out without getting wet and cold(er). We typically have snow here (in Nova Scotia, Canada), which at least gives the illusion of brightness outside (which - for a short time at least - can trick my brain into thinking it's getting some sun), but lately all it's been is cold drizzle. Even the kids are feeling slightly cheated.
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