First Day of Spring

  Today marks the first day of spring. It is currently snowing outside. I took a walk earlier and the mud and puddles were crystallized with stiff ice. While walking around you can feel a cutting wind that will send your teeth chattering if you're not wearing a scarf. Yesterday I was in a bad mood and I took a trip to the bank where I met a woman as I was walking in. Snow was falling then as well. Our exchange went like this:

Her:  Tomorrow will be the first day of spring, can you believe it?

Me: Maybe on the calender it will be.

Her: Oh come on! You have to be positive, the weather might turn around tomorrow!

Me: Its a little hard to be positive about the weather when we live in Ohio.

Her: But the best part of living in Ohio is the unpredictability! It'd be boring to live anywhere else, don't you   think?

Me: [laughing] I suppose that's true.

I tend to make her same argument myself quite a bit, its just hard to see that angle when you're in a bad mood. That's why talking with complete strangers can be great some times, you never know what they'll say. So here's to the first day of spring, even if I'm a little happy that there's still snow falling.

Noah and the Whale
Blue Skies (First Days of Spring film trailer)

Whoa!

Today, ladies and gentlemen, for any who might care: is the one year anniversary of this blog! Crazy! So I guess that means I need to put something awesome up, like at least twice as awesome as what I might have been planning normally. And you say, what could possibly be that awesome? Um, good question. Let us pretend that I actually planned something out instead of crazily surfing the internet as I post this.

Okay I think I found something satisfying. You see I am pretty sure that today is also the hottest day of the summer, its been in the mid 90's all day and barely bearable. So what do you think of when its super hot out? Well, maybe you think of places that are usually even hotter than where you are right now, for example Mexico. Then to further take your mind of the heat you start mentally rattling off all the things you tend to associate with Mexico: like Mariachi bands and Masked Wrestlers. Are you thinking of other things? Well good job, write them down perhaps they'll come in handy later, but those two were really all you need. Now here's an awesome music video with both of those things.

Shape of My Heart
Noah and the Whale



Thanks for reading for the past year! stay out of the heat!