My husband says that waking up on the first day of the NCAA tournament is like Christmas morning for him. But I’m familiar with the real March madness, and basketball has nothing to do with it.
The real March madness is the feeling you get when you watch the thermometer on your car dashboard drop from fourteen to eleven to five degrees Fahrenheit. It’s the first day of spring getting bitch-slapped by winter, year after year.
It’s devouring gallons of coffee and carb-loading with baked goods because winter will never end and you’ll never need to wear a bathing suit again.
It’s straitjacketing your toddler into his parka and boots yet another time—a process that looks, to bystanders, like nothing so much as a greased-pig contest at the state fair. And you’re losing.
It’s questionable patches of dry, red skin that make you envy the shiny produce under the mist sprayers at the grocery store. It’s nosebleeds and hair static that makes you look like this:
In a word, it’s madness.
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Glossing Over It.
That picture is hilarious.
West Texas weather is in the 60s and 70s this week. Unfortunately, we have horrible wind that can wake the dead.
OK that picture is scary. LOL. Demon child. Like you, I buttoned children’s coats today and growled as I did it. I’m dying for warmer weather!
Spring, she’s fickle for sure. Yesterday was glorious–not a cloud in the sky. Today I woke up to the same ol’ grey ick.