Flakes falling under streetlights…

First real snow today---it began early this morning and started to stick around 6 or 7 p.m. Beautiful bright night, and I made a marvelous figure eight in the parking lot by my house with my buddy Elmer (otherwise known as my Subaru Legacy wagon---AWD is great fun). I would love to just go for a walk in the white quiet, but my evenings are much shorter these days, with play rehearsals four nights a week (I’m the assistant stage manager for “The Gospel According to Scrooge”---we perform next weekend!!). My parents wonder if I’m stressed, being so busy this past month. But I don’t think I am…I don’t have time to be stressed. I don’t have time to do much of anything lately. Anyway, enough self-pity for now. At least my weekends are fairly free (since I don’t have a social life either---yeah, more self-pity).

It’s wintry outside, and I’m listening to classical music and enjoying a hot drink before I fall into my down-pillowed bed. Life is good. I keep checking outside to make sure the white stuff is still there. Yup---gosh, that’s a perfect figure eight. Bedtime draws nigh.

Comments

[a d a m]

April, still no snow in Idaho, though I wish I could be making some figure eights with my....well, she doesn't have a name - my AWD Subaru. You're lucky.

[Josh C]

April,

I'm a friend of Adam's, another Whitworth alum. What a great blog you have. I check it every once in awhile.

Thanks for writing about real things.

Great Peace,
Josh

[caro]

For some reason I have it in my head that you are from B.C. but I can't remember why I think that. If you are then I can appreciate your reaction to snow falling so much. I went to Columbia Bible College for two years and coming from the prairies where snow is the norm in winter (and taking it for granted) I was ecstatic to see snow falling while I lived there. Of course, I was in the lower mainland and I think it is much different than other areas of B.C. and I don't know where exactly you are from so perhaps I don't understand quite so well as I might think I do. . . Anyway, my experience there for those two years (and two relatively snowless winters) has made me appreciate the snow here so much more. I love sitting at home with a hot cup of coffee and a good book while the snow falls gently to the earth. I also LOVE playing in it and enjoy the fact that when I became an adult I didn't have to grow up (as I always feared) so that I can still play and have fun in freshly fallen snow.

[April]

Caro: I'm not sure why you think I'm from B.C. either...although I was actually born there. Maybe that's the connection? I live in Washington state, which is about as close as you can get without being in Canada. And it doesn't snow a lot here in the southeast corner, so I do enjoy it when it happens. (Though it never seems to happen for Christmas---it's either before or after. Oh well.) Thanks for the comment! :)

[caro]

Washington, eh? I was sorta close. Don't know where I got the B.C. idea from . . . perhaps I wanted to believe you were Canadian. Oh well, Americans are cool too.