Really, it’s cool!

I wish I had been that cool!

At least it is for people who live in climates where they get snow.

On Facebook, as soon as it starts snowing, people start posting about it.  About the cold, the crappy driving conditions, the lousy drivers, the shoveling or snow blowing, snow days and missing warm weather.  And then people start to make snide comments like, “Oh, you live in XYZ, you can’t seriously be surprised by the snow!”

Seriously?  No, we aren’t.  But it’s something that a good portion of us love to hate.  Or once loved and now understand why people hate it.  It’s the great equalizer.  We know it’s coming but we’re still kind of surprised when it shows up.  Because living in an area where you get snow can be tough and sometimes it can be fun to commiserate with someone else who knows exactly what you are going through.

Once, when I was young and foolish, I loved winter.  Now that I’m getting night blind, old and crusty  – winter is not my favorite season!  Except when I’m inside.  Reading a book or watching TV.  And watching beautiful, fluffy white flakes drift gently down from the gray sky.  Then the girl child wants to go to the mall and I hate it again.

If I had gotten hot chocolate I would have happily sipped on it until it was gone.

But I got the sucky coffee and sat with it in my hand because, well, it’s cool to drink Starbuck’s coffee right?

And tea – drinking tea, to me, is grown up.  My mom always drank tea.  Carried tea bags in her purse so she wouldn’t be without if we happened to be somewhere that didn’t have tea.  Mom drinks her tea with a bit of cream and a bit of sugar.  Me? I think most tea is nasty.  Except for Bigelow Vanilla Chai tea.  Which rocks!  With way too much Spenda and 2% milk.  I slurp with satisfaction as hard core tea drinkers everywhere shudder and roll their eyes.  But I don’t care because, damn it, I like it!

Strangely, drinking most alcohol is not ‘grown-up’ to me.  Drinking wine is a grown-up thing to do though.  I hated wine as well but when on a tour of the Fingerlakes with my hubby and some friends a thousand years ago because I wanted to be grown up and accepted and do the ‘cool’ thing.  Amazingly to me I found quite a few wines that I liked.  That I still like.  And most hard core wine drinkers shudder and roll their eyes while I ship my sweet wines.  Do I care?  Nope.  Cause I like Red Cat (in the 1.5 liter bottle please) and Ravat 51.  And I drink them in excess with friends.

Are there drinks you have that you see as ‘grown-up’?  Or am I just a freak of nature?  *grin*

Because there have been so many changes.  Because I am not the person I used to be.  Because you have to look forward in life and not backwards.  Because tomorrow is a new day.  All good reasons to start a new blog.

That and I switched hosts and forgot to back up my old one. So buh bye to all of that.

Onward and upward.