Winter's here!

Ohh yeah...it sure has arrived - okay, okay many may not agree with me (those with their AC's still on! How do you do it?! I don't even dare to put on the fan!) but my freezing hands while typing out this post kindly disagree!

You know I've never been fond of winters. The chilly air all around, freezing me to death!...and I get cold so easily inspite of many calling me thick-skinned :p. It's hard to manage the many layers of clothing with the jackets and sweaters and scarves...ohhh so irritating and absolutely useless for delicate people like me ;) and the way sleep overtakes me, it's too cold and gloomy and dark to do anything but lie around in bed and what's worse is having to get up and have a bath (eeek! believe me, it takes a lot of courage to step under that shower :D) to rush to college...and it's not like winter has some thing to offer from the scenic-beauty point of view where I live- no snow or frost or snow-capped mountains or hills (though I wonder how'd I survive the cold there if I can't even take it here! :D), so it doesn't seem like there's anything to cheer about when winter's around the corner...

...unless, I look at it with a different point of view...notice how much more delicious a cup of hot chocolate or a hot coffee tastes during a cold night when you're lying wrapped up in blankets reading a novel? and yeah doesn't ice-cream taste even better when it's so cold that you've actually gone numb? and doesn't even a little bit of sunlight feel heavenly? and the nights so clear that each star is clearly visible...Also, how about how you get to buy that gorgeous leather jacket which you're going to wear only once or twice at the most and doesn't really help with the 'keeping-you-warm' factor but doesn't it look just awesome on you?!...and don't get me started on the boots ;)  What about when suddenly the whole family's home for Christmas...I love that feeling I get when I know Christmas is getting closer, late nights spent playing cards and watching really soppy Christmas movies, huddled under the blanket together, mmm...rose cookies and cakes and Christmas dinner with really bad wine later substituted with appy :D and then new year's eve with the stupid resolutions and boiled veggies and stew at night...and then thoughts on how the new year's going to be, all the while creating beautiful memories...

...and maybe that lying around in bed thing  (lazing around and lot's of time to think and ahh sleep :)) that I mentioned before ain't that bad, huh? :p

"Winter is a time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

So...

"Brew me a cup for a winter's night.

 For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;

 Spice it with love and stir it with care,

 And I'll toast your bright eyes,

 my sweetheart fair." ;)

Happy winter everybody! :)