Ok, typical English conversation here...yes the bloody weather. We spend more than half our lives talking crap, moaning about this and that, I guess that's part of life. The way I look at it, is this moaning per se is a balance against positive things too. Hence we somehow make up for this negativity....just it's harder to see I think, whether it's the smile to someone as your walk passed or just mentally being positive. It's humanly natural to easily show we don't like something, than if we do....if we say how much we love something, it usually turns in to a comment about being 'weird' or 'obsessive'....but no-one will ever say you're obsessively negative....prob just a moaning git.
So no, I'm not moaning about the weather...the statement 'it's getting cold' has the assumption that this is a bad thing....however I beg to differ. Cold = snow = good = snowboarding = fun = life......by this chain of totally causal words (yeah right) we can deduce cold = life......erm....or something like that. The point is, cold weather isn't necessarily a bad thing, sure we have to put 2 pairs of underpants in the morning, wear 3 T-shirts, turn our heating up to sauna level and our skin drys out like a prune in the oven...but it's not all bad. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but yes winter is here to stay, yes it gets dark very early but so what. If we can't accept this, then we only live for a few months out of the year each time....hmm...we must waste a lot of something....
Just think of the good things with winter..... you can put your beers outside for a natural coolness, you can light candles and crap so your lady is pleased (something about setting the mood or something) and feels cosy, you seem to get more hugs in winter, you put on so many layers walking in to things doesn't hurt, you get to pretend you are a choo choo train, you get a much better feeling once you walk inside to a hot room, in England as chavs can't afford clothes they disappear for the winter, early darkness makes it feel like night so going out at 3pm when it's pitch black instead of 10pm is good, you get way more sleep!! I could go on.......
As I'm not teaching snowboarding this year my winter could have been some drizzle infested, wet soggy aftermath which we get in England (see I'm not complaining am I?!)...however, as Sweden is a real country they get snow and plenty of it.....so my winter is going to feel as close to the last 2 years as it possibly could......oh I can't wait until January/Feb temps! (with windchill in Maine, it got down to almost verging where Fahrenheit equaled Celsius at -40, it was the case of sit on the lift to get to the top of a run and you would have frostbite on your nose, was lovely)
All that needs to be said now is bring on the winter, bring on the snow
So no, I'm not moaning about the weather...the statement 'it's getting cold' has the assumption that this is a bad thing....however I beg to differ. Cold = snow = good = snowboarding = fun = life......by this chain of totally causal words (yeah right) we can deduce cold = life......erm....or something like that. The point is, cold weather isn't necessarily a bad thing, sure we have to put 2 pairs of underpants in the morning, wear 3 T-shirts, turn our heating up to sauna level and our skin drys out like a prune in the oven...but it's not all bad. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but yes winter is here to stay, yes it gets dark very early but so what. If we can't accept this, then we only live for a few months out of the year each time....hmm...we must waste a lot of something....
Just think of the good things with winter..... you can put your beers outside for a natural coolness, you can light candles and crap so your lady is pleased (something about setting the mood or something) and feels cosy, you seem to get more hugs in winter, you put on so many layers walking in to things doesn't hurt, you get to pretend you are a choo choo train, you get a much better feeling once you walk inside to a hot room, in England as chavs can't afford clothes they disappear for the winter, early darkness makes it feel like night so going out at 3pm when it's pitch black instead of 10pm is good, you get way more sleep!! I could go on.......
As I'm not teaching snowboarding this year my winter could have been some drizzle infested, wet soggy aftermath which we get in England (see I'm not complaining am I?!)...however, as Sweden is a real country they get snow and plenty of it.....so my winter is going to feel as close to the last 2 years as it possibly could......oh I can't wait until January/Feb temps! (with windchill in Maine, it got down to almost verging where Fahrenheit equaled Celsius at -40, it was the case of sit on the lift to get to the top of a run and you would have frostbite on your nose, was lovely)
All that needs to be said now is bring on the winter, bring on the snow
