January – in Latin means The Endless Month of Pain
Posted By becky on January 2, 2010
Welcome to 2010! A great year for everyone. I promise not to hog all the goodness from this year as I did for 2009. Sorry about that.
The only problem with 2010 is January seems to be here again. I asked Santa for one thing, only one thing the big guy had to deliver. I simply wanted 2010 to forget about January and start on February first. I must have been on the naughty list this year because I woke up yesterday to January. It’s the month that won’t end. A never ending month where we get sunlight for only two hours a day. We have already had at least a week and a half of this month and yet the stupid calendar still shows January 2nd. Forget advent calendars in December, we need one for this God forsaken month. I totally deserve a little piece of chocolate for making it through yet another January day.
It doesn’t help matters that my darling loving wonderful boyfriend is on a cruise IN THE BAHAMAS while I am stuck here in the frozen tundra. (His close friend is getting married on the cruise and everything was planned and paid for before I came into the picture…I’m happy for him. Really. So. Very. Happy.)
It’s so *&$@(!& cold that Wisconsin makes Siberia look downright balmy. The high today is 4. No I didn’t miss a digit. Just 4 degrees. The high.
I had to take Ben outside because keeping a bored Ben inside the house for too long is like keeping 20 puppies held captive in a small closet filled with crystal glasses. In the past couple days he has taken to making snow angels in our carpet and setting up a hockey rink in the living room. His Star Wars Light Saber is the hockey stick with an old ping pong ball as the puck. I’m going so completely insane that if school wasn’t starting again in a couple of days, you’d see an ad up on Craigslist for a 9 year old boy in the “Free For The Asking” section. So my point, which I almost completely lost, is that we were out in the elements for maybe 20 minutes today and by the time we came back in my face, earlobes and toes were icicles. Cabin fever much?
The only thing that is keeping me going in these first couple weeks of January (WHAT??! It’s still only the 2nd? ARE YOU FRICKIN’ KIDDING ME!?) is copious amounts of left over Christmas candy (I’m working on a petition so the FDA will give caramels a spot on the food pyramid) and Cupcake ’10 bloggy conference that is coming up this weekend. If candy, fellow awesome blogger ladies and Matt coming home with a kick ass tan doesn’t help, I’m a goner.
So here’s to the new year! To a great 2010! To January! And to not giving in and hibernating until April.
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I’m hoping it stays sunny for the next 2 weeks while I’m off work so I can bike and hike. Oh, and hit up the beach.
oh, and I’m hoping January passes slowly….since I have most of the month off and all…
oh how i loathe january and february. ick.
Dear Kel,
I hate you.
Love
Me
Kelcey, how are we going to get through this? UGH!
Hello! Yelling at you from Sun Prairie. Only, you can’t hear me with the windows closed. I, too, cursed the winter on my most recent post. My sister (in Alabama) called to say it was down to 19 there. If only!
I’m looking forward to meeting you this weekend and we’ll have to plan a rendezvoux (or however you spell that) post-cupcake.