you know i love you, but i just can't take it any more. what used to be a pristine, fun and happy relationship has frozen over, turned gray and treacherous. i'd say it's not you, it's me. but really it is a little bit you. or a lot. you're just so cold and relentless and i feel i need more variety in my life, you know? i really love cozying up inside, but now and then, really, i NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. it's not healthy to be cooped up for so long. also, you're taking people's power and and HEAT and with sub-freezing temperatures, that's just wrong. and so please. stop coming around, at least for now. maybe we can try again next winter. so we're not really breaking up, just taking a break. a long one. but we can still be friends. we've had some good times, no?
like the first time you dumped 20 inches of snow on us in a little over 24 hours. that was wild. and there's no mistaking your beauty.
(pictures from the january 2010 snowstorm)
and then there was the time we rang in the new year with the boy. and he came to the 90s party at my house even though he was in charge of a ysa dance and then gave me a ride to said dance and i played navigator and got us lost, but we made it there before midnight, despite the snow and danced and partied all night long (or until 1am, when the dance ended). remember that? that was good times.
(me, the boy, and a big chandelier)
and the time i moved out of my studio into a new one in the midst of a snowstorm. also good times, thanks to shellie and the boy. and then the same night helped throw a wedding reception for some friends amidst the unrelenting snowstorm? i learned how to use my 4 wheel drive that day. and the next day i turned twenty-ten and many friends braved the elements to share some asphalt pie with me in celebration.
there was the time amidst the snowpocalypse (when you dumped about 22" of snow in a little over 24 hours AGAIN) that we bravely took the rav to skeen's to go running....
...and she dug out a parking spot in her driveway just for me...
...and we had to put plastic bags on our feet to keep them dry (and it worked like a charm). lovely.
i don't think i'll ever see 395 this deserted ever again.
and of course, remember that time we doubled with tali and went snowshoeing slash telemarking after the flakes had ceased flying? and the rangers were super awesome and let us park illegally and blaze our own trail somewhere in the hills near the potomac but we discovered that its so difficult to go uphill on telemark skis that it took us an hour and a half to blaze a half mile loop and never even got out of earshot of the generator? that was great.
oh and who could forget the mobile karaoke party, courtesy of stephanie, carrie and jeanette friday night - smack in the middle of snowpocalypse?
oh and who could forget the mobile karaoke party, courtesy of stephanie, carrie and jeanette friday night - smack in the middle of snowpocalypse?
(me, emily, kate, mary)
all good times, but i'm ready to move on. i'll always love you, but i have to do this for me. i hope you understand.
annie
ps if i were you, i'd blame it on that puxatawney phil for making you stick around so long. stupid groundhog.
10 comments:
Greatest break up letter ever! I have never laughed so much over the heartache of another. I hope winter is able to cope without you. I also hope winter doesn't end up as your crazy stalker for the next few months. Watch your back Annie :)
Apparently winter took a break from someone here because he hasn't been around much at all this year. Someone said he was coming over a week ago, in a really big way, so I didn't wash my car that day. Or the next. Or the next. I need to wash it now, but I'm too afraid he'll come back. Once he's broken your trust, it's hard to gain it back.
WE WERE ON A BREAAAAAK!
you should come visit us when it thaws out.
do we still do this?
kayinde = bishop kay's wife was so inde, right ab? hehe.
sorry i couldn't resist.
ajoyan. it would be ajoyan if you do what i said in my last comment.
So totally agree with Neesh!! My car is filthy, but I just can't do it!
Maybe that one other boy who pops up in the break up letter will keep you company while on your break with winter!!
Who is "the boy"? That's what I wanna know. And thanks for the beautiful pictures and for the word snowpocalypse.
I just have to say you look dead sexy in the picture of you, the boy, and the chandelier. Grrr!
Miss you.
I'm breaking up with you too, winter! You really gave me and Annie a hard time when we were snow shoeing/x-country skiing and it showed me that we might not be right for each other.
abs: hehee my thoughts exactly!
yeff: done and done
auntie: i never have liked the word "boyfriend," if that helps
jaime: thank you! and might i say, you are a vision in prego. :D
Post a Comment