*Sparkles*

I hate winter. I hate the cold. I hate having to start up my car to let it warm up every time I want to use it. There is no feeling I hate more than when even after bundling up with your 16 layers of clothing, you walk out that door and the cold hits you like a brick in the face and you can barely breathe. I hate it because Canadian winters are hellish to deal with. People drive the same and expect that they will get around the same way without an accident.

There is one part of winter however that turns me into this giddy little 5 year old girl again…. The snow. I love it because it makes everything look so pretty…. Despite it being disgustingly cold out and my car is always dirty. The whiteness of it all just makes me think of all the times I’d trudge through it to get to the bus. It makes me think of forts, snowmen and snow ball fights and snow angels and the one time where it snowed so much I was able to step up on the roof of my 2 story house back home. And at the time even knowing if I got caught I’d get in trouble, I had to yell out “Victory!” And of course I got myself in trouble. Sigh.

As I was driving to school the other day I noticed something else about the snow. But please don’t judge me for this reason I’m not as girly as you’d think. It makes everything sparkly. The town that I live in, it’s hard to find beauty in it because it is an all around dirty town but this one little thing made me so giddy. The top of the snow was all sparkly from the bright sun shining down on it and the snow and frost on the road was sparkly too. And all I could think at the time was “ooooo sparkles”.

And what ruined my whole mood was 5 minutes later I thought…. Now I can’t judge Bella as much as I’d like to for enjoying watching her love sparkle in the sun…..Damnit.