So its definitly winter... where is all that damn global warming?!

So i know Global warming is really bad, and I shouldn't even be joking about it, but I SERIOUSLY HATE winter! I just looked out my window from work and saw a serious snowfall coming down. Which can only mean, a. freezing cold weather which always = dry skin, dry nose, pale skin, and static!!!! b. tons of clothing, ie layering (which I try to avoid at all costs) c. close-toe shoes (another thing I try to avoid at all costs, unless it is my beloved knee-high boots. d. chapped lips, disgusting (lets just say i should have some stock in chapstick) and finally e. major injuries... maybe not for all, but DEFINITLY for me!!! Every year during every winter I manage to injure myself, sometimes severely others, some just a severe ego injury, and some just minor. One particularly awful fall came when I was a sophomore in college and me and my sorority sister Leeann had gotten up at the god-awful hour of 7am to walk to the library to work on another god-awful thing (Statistics) yuck, anyway... we had to walk b/c it was too icy and cold to drive and there is absolutely no parking on campus when the weather is like this...newsflash ... you girls probably shouldn't be walking. So being the diva that I am i own almost zero pairs of flats (this was all during the time when flats were definitly not in style) anyway... I put on my one pair of "sensible shoes" ha ha they were the new bebe tennis shoes, complete with miniature golf like cleats on the bottom, probably not the best for traction on ice, but definitley very cute! Anyway as we are walking, I managed to slide down the hill from our sorority house to the main intersection, across the intersection and to the sidewalk across from the dorms safely, or so I thought. As we are slowly making our way down the street i hit a patch of black ice and go flying! Seriously land on my ass and back... it had to have looked like a cartoon, like my body was seriously flying in mid air, Leeann turns around and looks back at me seriously panicked, the wind is completely knocked out of me... she tries her best to help me w/o laughing, of course she can't. So she is trying to help me up while holding back laughs, the dorm people are probably watching from their windows dying in laughter, and the passersby (the smarties in cars) are laughing and pointing, while meanwhile I am being over dramatic telling her that I broke my tailbone (which if you have seen me is quite a laugh... i have enough padding back there to never break my tailbone in even the worst of falls) anyway... I sit up and immediately howl in pain so Leeann thinks quickly and calls my roommates to drive down and pick me up... Jess eventually comes to my rescue, but not after half of manhattan has driven by and seen my laid up in all my glory on campus. To make matters worse, I called my dad to tell him the news and he insists on driving all the way out to manhattan, then driving me all the way back to kc, in order to get an xray of my tailbone, which turned out to be completely intact. Talk about awful and embarassing... and the girls still bring it up to this day. Which I might chalk this all up to karma, bc me, griff, and mindy used to drive around on campus during really icy/snowy days and laugh at all the idiots who fell, but this constantly happens to me, and happened way before this one particularly embarassing incident. Anyway... things like that always seem to be happening to me in the winter, hence my hatred for the season. And whenever I bring up this subject to my family in Minnesota (which are crazy and actually LIVE for winter, snow, and hideous slush) they think it is quite possibly the craziest thing they have ever heard and can't believe that I would rather be sweating in 95 degree weather with 100% humidity (no exaggeration) than playing around in the hideous snow! I was actually talking to my older sister the other day and she was getting ready to go outside and take a walk bc it was snowing, then I bragged that it was still 60 and sunny in kansas and I couldn't beleive she was excited about freezing cold temps and frozen precip. So to sum up, i am throughly saddened that the winter seems to have finally hit the great state of KS and I absolutely can not wait to be in sunny california soon!
xoxoxo
*kati