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I want you to see if you can spot the problem that I am
having here:
I live in Iowa, like in the middle-ish of Iowa which is in
the middle of the stars and stripes United States. Here, we are lucky enough to
experience the extremes of each season.
It is December 3. Christmas is in (hold on while I count…)
22 days. Usually, by this time of year I have to wear gloves, scarves, and my
winter coat to school. Sometimes we have snow this early but it’s almost always
cold. I usually pull out my sweaters and scarves and hats and my awesomely
fuzzy socks that I honestly cannot live without. People are planning secret Santa’s
and Christmas parties and Christmas music is on the radio 24/7.
Not to mention my family just put Christmas lights up on our
roof and porch and our tree is all decorated and I feel like we should be
singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Everywhere we go!”
Just one problem….
Unless we went to Alaska, it wouldn’t look like Christmas
anywhere we went.
It was 66 degrees outside today. Yesterday was in the high
50’s.
THIS IS NOT OKAY!
It feels a little, no, A LOT weird to walk out the door past
my Christmas tree in nothing but a light jacket and I probably could have work
capris comfortably today. Since I live in Iowa, Christmas equals snow and cold
and frost and icy coldness that turns your nose holly red, not humid classrooms
and driving with the windows down like it was today. My brain is seriously
getting very confused.
Have you ever been sick and slept from noon on Monday until
five the next day and when you woke up you didn’t know what day it was? Well,
that’s kind of how I feel right now. I feel like the whole world fell asleep on
November 30th and woke up in April, completely skipping over
Christmas and New Years but everyone is still convinced that it is December 3rd
and Christmas is only 22 days away.
At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if we turn on the news
one of these days and Ashton Kutcher comes on and tells us that we’ve all been
Punk’d and that we’ve all slept through Christmas and he got all of our toys
that Santa brought us.
~Skooogster(:
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