when it's really, really cold outside

there's this thing that I like to call the "January Funk." it's real i tell you! when your apartment starts to look bleak and like it's all the same color, and not even your bed is warm anymore.

you just can't escape the cold! when you wake up you best not be putting your arms out of your covers or else you will learn what the lowest level of hell feels like in Dante's Inferno (it's actually the coldest place in the universe, kinda ironic, huh?). And then depending on how many people took a shower before you (usually the max is one) the shower might be warm.

and then you go outside and start walking, and you realize how cold it is, and how long you have to walk. it pretty much makes you want to cry except for the hope that maybe when you are in the sun, it will be a little warmer (it isn't). i've found the trick is to distract yourself. thinking about cute little kittens in santa hats usually works.

see, pretty stinkin' cute, huh?

and everyone is in this january funk. walking around, going to school, going to work, going to the library, and repeat. who made this month anyway? 

despite this january funk, whitney and i have learned that late friday night runs to get ice cream and then watching movies on my bed with forty blankets wrapped all around us is a pretty good thing. january funk = a really good excuse to cuddle. so, here's to cuddling and staying warm!