Well I hope that Nils' hands have thawed out from building that mammoth snowman. He needs both his hands tonight for a great show :D

Things I HATE about Winter:

1. Coughing, Sneezing, and Blowing My Nose for 4 Months
2. Migraines
3. Bringing the outside animals inside at night and when it's really cold during the day
4. Worrying about the stubborn cats that refuse to come inside
5. Having to use hand lotion, face lotion, and body lotion
6. Working with germie children
7. Freezing to death in my office
8. Having to get up in the morning and go to work when it's so cold
9. Stabbing pain in my hands and fingers from the cold when I'm driving in the mornings (Raynard's Syndrome)
10. Aching all over when the weather changes
11. Tornadoes that come when it's 65 degrees one day and 20 degrees the next
12. Hail storms
13. Having to make up snow days
14. Losing power when there's ice/snow
15. It's dark by 5:00
16. Asthma acts up

Are you sure you can't come up with more negative things? Almost makes me depressed reading all this.

Oh, I could EASILY come up with more. I just stopped there.

"Oh the weather outside is frightful...." and that's where the song ends. Our schools are closing early today because of the threat of hail, tornadoes, and straight line winds. Other kids get out of school because of snow. Our kids get out of school because of this crap.

Number 6 begats Number 1.

I was in NYC in February 2010 for a week. Weird week. 65F at the start of the week, lovely sunshine. 2 feet of snow by the end. The city is magical in snow and everyone just carries on.

Britain goes into meltdown even in the slightest flurry. Sounds like everyone across the pond coped well.