I’m so not ready for winter.

I was born, raised and for most of my life I have lived in Minnesota. I have fond memories of growing up, playing in the snow and having a grand ‘ol time in the winter wonderland. Coming inside with damp gloves, red flushed faces and ready to have a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows in it.

Winter was all about making snow forts, sledding, snowmobiling and just having fun outside in the cold and the snow.

There’s just one problem.

Was winter this fucking cold when I was a little kid?

Because Sweet Chocolate Christ it gets really fucking cold now.

Usually you hear people reminisce about how everything was so much more horrible, more of a struggle than it is today. The proverbial “walking 5 miles to school in 3 feet of snow, barefoot and uphill (both ways!)”.

The way I look at it – I had it made as a kid. I have so many fond memories of being a kid and all the things I used to do. I grew up on a farm, we didn’t have a lot of money – but I had parents that loved me and my brothers and sisters and life was good. I would love to experience a winter as a kid again.

Now I seem to have become a wimp. Either that or winter really IS colder now. Global warming, my ass.

Maybe I’m just getting too crotchety in my old age. When I was a kid…