I did it, everyone! I finally got into the autumn spirit! I'm wearing reds and browns, the leaves are crunchy, and... wait, huh? What do you mean that winter starts in two days? I'm not prepared for this at all!
If you're anything like me, then you know the struggle of being a summer-lover in the wintertime. If you can see your own breathing, then it's too darn cold outside. Here are five things that I'm sure you can relate to as a Warm-Weather Creature in the cold winter months. If you love the winter, on the other hand, then I guess you can just bundle up with some hot cocoa and laugh at all the rest of us (you know who you are).
1. You have to over-bundle...
You're freezing. In fact, you're quite sure that you will freeze to death. You bundle up with a hat, gloves, scarf, and sweater before braving the arctic.
"Dude, it's only, like 50 degrees out," they tell you. But you do not hear them, because you are also wearing earmuffs.
2. ... But all the best clothes are out of season.
I think that the real magic in "Frozen" was the fact that Anna and Elsa both rocked dresses in spite of an eternal winter. GIRL. IT IS TOO COLD OUT FOR THAT. If you enjoy shorts, skirts, dresses, t-shirts, or shoes that expose any part of your feet, you're just going to have to accept that your fashion sense has a hibernation season.
3. Eating ice cream requires you to risk your life.
If you thought brain freeze was bad in summer, imagine what it's like when all of you is frozen. Winter really leaves you with two options. Firstly, you can give up popsicles, ice cream, frozen yogurt, and anything else chilly and delicious until the sun returns from it's annual vacation. Alternatively, if you, like me, cannot bear to wait that long, you can adopt one of my favorite hobbies: eating ice cream in front of a space heater. Make your own happiness, my friends.
4. Daily chores become an ordeal.
You want to take the trash out to the garbage can? Or go get the mail? Or walk the dog? Well, you better prepare your marshmallow attire first, or else you'll freeze in the minute and a half it takes to reach your destination and then flee back to the safety of your nice warm house.
5. Everyone teases you for your weakness.
They think that you're ridiculous for suffering in the cold. They think that weather in the 50s "isn't even that bad." You try to tell them that wind chill makes you sad and that you're very sensitive to freezing and dying, but no matter what you say they just don't seem to get it.
Well, joke's on them: when summer rolls back around, you'll be chilling while they whine about the heat.
