Truths About Wisconsinites.

ARE YOU WONDERING IF YOU'RE TRULY A WISCONSINITE?! YOUR DOUBTS CAN END RIGHT NOW!!! To know for sure, whether you live in WI or not, read the following:

Wisconsin, according to Jeff Foxworthy:

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in Wisconsin.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't even work there, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you've worn shorts and a jacket at the same time, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Wisconsin.
If "vacation" means going anywhere North of Milwaukee for the weekend, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both doors unlocked, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Wisconsin.
If the speed limit on the highway is 70 mph -you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Wisconsin.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Wisconsin.
If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you may live in Wisconsin.
If you actually understand these jokes, repost this so all of your Wisconsin friends and others can see, you definitely do live - or have lived - in Wisconsin.

22 Degrees Tonight!

....Baby, it is COLD outside! Inspired by the awesome book, "Goodnight Moon" I have developed a quick poem that sarcastically romanticizes my feelings on going outside to work tonight and my overall enthusiasm of the rapidly approaching winter weather:
 

Hello mittens and long underwear,
Hello guys-are-lucky-because-they-can-grow-facial-hair.
Hello scarf and hello hat,
Hello "Thank you Lord for every ounce of my fat!"
Hello sunshine without any heat,
Hello five-layers-of-socks-on-my-feet.
Hello short days that are spent feeling numb
Hello "I can't feel my fingers and thumbs".
Hello Season that fills us with cheer,
Hello people, Winter is here!

Lately

It has been about a month since I have posted last. Quite unusual really, but I confess I have been attempting to juggle so much that I just haven't managed to blog.

The weather is cold, the trees are looking grey and scraggly, and we've already had two snow falls.

I have been in a very creative mood. I've been writing poems and songs quite a bit lately. I have started playing my violin again... and that is slightly terrifying endeavor since there is no way to sugar coat the fact that I haven't practiced in ages. I sounds like I haven't practiced in a while. Nevertheless I enjoy the challenge! I am also starting to practice/learn the harp. I am borrowing my sister Emily's lever harp since she doesn't have time to play it at this point in her life. The harp is so beautiful.... and unlike the violin you don't have to work very hard to make it sound angelic. The challenge is the fingering. It's like a small piano that somebody propped up on it's side and it is a strange feeling when you're used to a piano!!

Other than that life is pretty much the same as always. Strangely enough I am rather excited and motivated lately. I don't know what's gotten into me, but I'm not going to complain. ;) 

I am excited for the next couple of weeks. My Grammy from Ohio is coming on Friday and Thanksgiving is coming right up!!! Who doesn't love Thanksgiving? This year is going to be really great because we have a two day feast! It is going to be swell (pun intended)! =D

P.S. I'm horrified (as I am every year) that the radio stations are already playing Christmas music, therefore I'm writing a humorous Thanksgiving parody of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". ....we'll see how it turns out. ;)

 

 *the second snow*