Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Holiday weather

     As most of you are pretty aware, yesterday was crazy rainy!  I left my house at 5 and didn't arrive at school until 7.  Coming home I left campus at 1:45 and made it back to my house at 4:00.
     Wow.  Four plus hours in the car-in crazy rain with crazy traffic-can definitely take it out of a person!  I don't think I had 6 functioning brain cells by the time I got in the door.  (Then again, maybe that was more due to the sleep deprivation+4:20 wake-up+FINALS---but the rain didn't help!).  
     Let me just tell you that I was drenched-completely!  The photo doesn't really show it, but my sweater is soaked through, and well, everything else too.  One of my classmates had on supercute rubber galoshes (she says "Costco!") and the rest of us were envious!  Especially when she pulled them off to reveal her incredibly cozy and DRY house socks underneath-you know the ones:  thick, padded, little bits of fur around the opening...  
     *sigh*  It was good sleeping weather, so once I got in I pretty much crashed!  I didn't nap (that just wreaks havoc on my nighttime sleep) but I posted some pictures on Facebook, took a warm bath, watched a Christmas movie, and ever so briefly looked at notes for the last final (tomorrow!  Soooo soooooon!).  
     As I look out the window today I see beautiful blue skies, green foliage, and luminous white clouds.  Kind of reminds me of the verse "Sorrow endures for the night but joy comes in the morning."  Not that yesterday was sorrowful, but I do think that the weather can help us along in our thought life at times.  Rainy, dark, chilly weather makes me want to cuddle up with warm drinks and read great books, or have good chats with friends (so long as we're still huddled under our respective blankets!), its a good time to "be".  It's more of a contemplative time, as opposed to the beautiful sky days where I just want to feel alive and be active, like making cards while listening to music or a movie in the background, taking walks, breathing deep:  today is a good "doing" type of day! 
     So, what are you doing with your time today?