Winter Blues

Dear, weather diary-

Day 20: I'm feeling buried inside the apartment once again. More snow is falling as I type this... if you read it in time, come rescue me! We had a good week last week, weather wise. Temperatures were in the 60s and the large snow drifts we had piled on the sidewalks melted down to dirty puddles and for the most part drained away. Then over the weekend temperatures started dropping and rain started falling. Again, the rain was good in aiding the melting of the snow, but the dropping temps were only a sign of what I was to wake up to this morning.

Large snow flakes are coming down and accumulating on the ground, grass, roofs, and cars. Probably about 1/4 inch at this point - but snowing steadily. I expect probably another inch or so before it's all over - all before nightfall. I'm stuck inside because I have no desire to go back out and deal with this weather again, after we were seemingly over it last week. Should have known it was too good to be true, but it feels like two winters!

Not to mention this is the 2nd snowiest February on record for the City of Chicago - this is in large part due to the 21" we received in the Blizzard of 2011 at the beginning of the month. I think I heard on the news that we were only about 2 more inches away from being THE snowiest February ever recorded in Chicago - so I hope I'm right about only another inch - I don't want to be a part of that statistic, because 2nd place is fine with me! I'll tell you what, I'm pretty damn ready for March to get here! 4 more weeks and we will be in "spring". I know 4 weeks is a ways away and the weather can change dramatically by then, but we've done that dance this year and it's looking ominous for when it's not going to be nasty outside - making me feel dreary. I feel like reading Edgar Allen Poe poems because this weather has me in such a funk.

Baseball season and softball season start in about a month. That is the light at the end of the tunnel for me. We are supposed to have temperatures in the low 40s by the end of this week, so hopefully this snow doesn't stick around long (no pun intended... well, maybe kind of intended). We all know how ridiculous people get when snow is covering the earth - driving like assholes, not picking up dog shit, sticking furniture out in the street to reserve non-private parking spaces. Yep, I'm over it all and ready for Spring.

To be concluded.