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So it’s the dead of summer, and I’m a sweaty, sticky, hot mess…but am I loving it?  Hell yes!!

Okay, I may have stolen part of that from a Cobra Starship song, but it’s true. I’ve been enjoying the hot weather a lot lately, which explains my absence from blogging. I’ve been tanning, jogging, walking, pretty much just enjoying the fact that summer lets you spend time outside…unlike winter.  Ugh, remember winter?  That bitchy, frigid 5 months we had of hunkering down inside while the world was covered in that bitter, relentless substance we like to call snow and the temperatures plummeted to unheard of numbers.  And that one day it was colder in Omaha than in Moscow.  Yeah, remember that?  To all you people out there complaining about the hot weather, I’m resisting the urge to tell you to kiss off.  Sorry, not trying to be mean, but give me this hot and humid weather over that bitterly cold winter we had any day.  That’s right, I said it: I’ll take the heat over the cold ANY DAY. Ha. So there. 

For those of you who say you prefer the cold, remember those awful blizzards we had this past winter that stranded you?  Especially the one that hit us right around Christmas and made traveling all but impossible, ruining the holiday for A LOT of people.  Remember the record snowfall? Remember how you almost suffered frostbite after shoveling your way out of your driveway for the zillionth time?  Remember how your car was stuck in the snow?  Remember how the snow plows took forever to plow all the streets (and some didn’t even get plowed) Remember??!! 

Yes, I’ll admit the heat can get very uncomfortable.  In my duplex, there is virtually no ventilation upstairs, so it gets uncomfortably stuffy and hot in my bedroom. But it’s okay b/c I have an AC window unit. Of course, I understand, hardly anyone likes the feeling of being sweaty the moment they wake up, or that intense steam of heat you feel when you climb into your car that has been baking in the sun with the windows closed most of the day…I know, that’s not a pleasant feeling.  But you know what? I’ll take it over that feeling of always being cold in the winter, and that dreadful, mind-numbing cold you can’t avoid the moment you step outside to warm up your car on a winter morning. That’s another good thing about the summer: you don’t have to warm up your car! 

There’s just something so therapeutic and cleansing about the heat…it’s hard to explain other than just saying I like it, but I’ll give it a whirl.  It’s like a cleansing feeling, almost cathartic, like I’m able to withstand the intense heat, just sweat it out, almost akin to sitting in a sauna, the pores of my skin purging all those nasty toxins out of my body. 

And come on, you have to admit, the heat is just so much more convenient than the cold.  Feeling hot? Go inside, turn on the AC and cool off. And if you’re driving in the heat, just turn down the AC in your car.  But in the cold of winter, you have so much more to worry about.  You could slip on a patch of ice while driving—or walking for that matter—and get into an accident.  That happens all the time, some driver loses control on a patch of ice or visibility is very low due to heavy snowfall, and they’re done for.  But have you ever heard of someone crashing into a heat wave while driving because it was so hot? I didn’t think so. 

So thank you very much, summer. For the heat, the stifling humidity, the thunderstorms—everything!  I absolutely, positively love every single second of it. Oh, and one little thing, summer: if you could talk to winter and have her be a bit less bitchy and frigid this year, maybe cut down on the snow fall, get rid of the sub-zero windchill and do away with that pesky ice, that would be grand. Thanks!