Snow Day!!!!

YAY SNOW! I love snow, I love how it’s so clean and pretty looking, I love the way the air smells when it’s snowing, I love when it sparkles in the sun, it’s all really great! My favorite thing of the winter is being the first to leave footprints in the fresh snow. It makes me feel very alone, seeing that I was the only one to ever walk on that patch. It also makes me angry at myself, because I don’t want to see the pureness and perfect white of the snow ruined, but I would rather see it ruined with carefully placed footprints that I make sure are pretty than by shovels and snowplows. I guess I’m being selfish, thinking that I’m the only one who can ruin the snow, but when I make my first step I always acknowledge that this is the last time anyone will ever see that snow as clean. It makes me feel better about ruining it because I know I full appreciate it.

I really do think the snow is amazing, I only wish it wasn’t as cold. I mean, I know that without the cold snow would just be slush and mud, but it’s so hard to play in when it burns because it’s so cold! Remember when you were little, and playing in the snow was the most fun possible? Even though I’ve never in my life made a snowman that looks anything like Frostie, it was still tons of fun to try. I’ve made forts and had epic snowball fights, gone sledding down the giant hills (which now that I’m over 3 feet tall are really not as big as I thought they were when I was 6) and wrapped the perfect snowy day up the day with cookies and hot cocoa.

However, this snow day wasn’t like that, which makes me sad. I didn’t feel like going outside and playing. The burden of shoveling kind of overwhelmed the splendor of the snow. I didn’t even go out and make the snow angels that I make after every snowfall. It scares me to think that I might be outgrowing the appeal of snow. I know at 19 society dictates that shouldn’t still be running around the house screaming SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!!! every time I see a flurry, but I still do. Then again there are a lot of things that I do that I’m “too old for”, and I frequently don’t “act my age”, whatever that even means, so I really shouldn’t care much.  And while I didn’t go outside to play, I did drink hot cocoa and bake cookies with my sister, and I did snuggle next to the fire place watching the blizzard that I was not playing in. All in all I feel it was a successful snow day, even if I may not love the snow as much as I used to.

Also! I found a website called onemilliongiraffes.com which is a girls project to collect one million pictures of giraffe doodles, pictures, dolls, anything handmade and giraffe related before 2011. I’ve sent in…6 giraffes I think, 5 pictures, and one giraffe cookie. Well, the cookie kind of looked more like a dinosaur more than a giraffe, but I tried. I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a fun idea and it’s really very cool to see people from all over the world participate in it.