Ten Reasons Winter Should Be Over

We are so over winter. Sure, it started off cute, with mittens, red noses, and fun flavored coffee at Starbucks. But it went downhill quickly. We’ve been battling the winter blues since the last week of December. It’s a testament to our maturity and unflagging spirit of perseverance that we’ve hidden our unhappiness for this long. But after four weeks of stoicism, we can suffer in silence no longer.

Here are the reasons we’re done with winter weather:

1. Salt on the cuffs of our jeans. The white stains on the bottoms of our pants are a giveaway that we don’t wash our jeans every day…or even every six days. We’d prefer to keep that information to ourselves.

2. No one looks cute in snow boots. Fact: There’s no way to rock a padded boot and not look like you belong in space.

3. Hot chocolate and marshmallows. It was charming the first weekend we stayed in staring at the falling snow with a steaming mug of Swiss Miss. Now we have cavities from all the sugar and calluses from burning our hands so much.

4. We miss wet hair. Ever since the weather dropped below freezing, we’ve had to wake up early enough to blow dry our hair because an icicle ponytail is so not chic. We’re ready for wash-n-go weather and that extra ten minutes of Z’s.

5. Ice scraping is so not fun. Ice scraping is lose/lose. You do it and your hands nearly freeze off. You don’t do it and you crash into every fire hydrant between your house and the school parking lot.

6. Sleeping with socks. To keep our tootsies toasty, we sleep in socks. Now we have a mismatched sock collection lodged at the bottom of our beds from losing so many during the night.

7. Picturesque doesn’t count after the holidays. Yes, snow is beautiful. We’re big enough to admit that. But after your holiday family portrait is taken, does it really even matter?  We say no.

8. Wool is itchy. We’ve got some fighting words we’d like to share with the sheep who invented wool.

9. Let there be light. After 6 p.m. Watching the sun set around 4:30 is just depressing.

10. The fire is so not delightful. We’re pretty sure we have the black lung after a few too many fires this season.

Please send this list to the weather gods or even just Al Roker. We expect a response before the official start of spring.

Why are you sick of winter?

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