So spring is coming and I'm ready for it to come! After a slow start to winter which brought bitterly cold days and never enough layers of clothes, I am ready to shed the heavy winter jackets, scarves, hats and mittens of winter for lighter clothes and bright colours.
This Sunday morning, while it is bright and sunny outside, there is newly fallen snow on the ground. So to help usher in spring, I have changed my banners. In place of the green and pink flowers, pink birds and flowers.
Chirp, chirp, tweet, tweet, welcome spring!
This Sunday morning, while it is bright and sunny outside, there is newly fallen snow on the ground. So to help usher in spring, I have changed my banners. In place of the green and pink flowers, pink birds and flowers.
Chirp, chirp, tweet, tweet, welcome spring!
This past Sunday was daylight savings time here. This year it came a few weeks earlier to turn the clocks ahead one hour.
I didn't quite notice the one hour loss as my back hurt on Saturday night and I took some medication that makes me drowsy so I was in bed pretty early and slept through till the morning, but this morning at work it finally hit me. I was so tired that while walking through the PATH (the underground walkway that has shopping and restaurants and keeps you warm and dry during cold or rainy days) I didn't even have the energy to peruse the magazine stores or the clothing shops, which I usually enjoy. Which meant that I got to my office earlier than usual. The first thing I did was to crack open a can of Coke Zero at 8:38 in the morning.
Most days a tall cup of coffee and my morning dose of royal news is good enough to get me going, but some days I'm so tired that I need both caffeine and sugar. Today was one of those days.
The one upside of daylight saving time has been that it's still light out by the time I get home and have had dinner. Monday and Tuesday especially when the weather was very mild and it was sunny outside, I felt renewed and energized. Today it's still very mild (14 degrees celcius!) but it's grey and rainy outside. By Friday we'll be back to seasonal temperatures with a chance of snow flurries.
With the hint of spring these past two days I'm excited for the warmer weather to come. I sent out my first Easter gift to a friend overseas and I had so much fun looking at the pretty pastel-coloured chocolates and the sunny Easter cards with bunnies and chicks on them. I even tried on some spring clothes afterwards. I can't wait to shed my sweaters and my heavy wool and cashmere winter jackets, my scarves and my hats and mittens. I have beautiful brightly coloured scarves to wear for spring and looking through my wardrobe the other day, I have fun tops for summer that I can't wait to wear again.
Come on spring!
I didn't quite notice the one hour loss as my back hurt on Saturday night and I took some medication that makes me drowsy so I was in bed pretty early and slept through till the morning, but this morning at work it finally hit me. I was so tired that while walking through the PATH (the underground walkway that has shopping and restaurants and keeps you warm and dry during cold or rainy days) I didn't even have the energy to peruse the magazine stores or the clothing shops, which I usually enjoy. Which meant that I got to my office earlier than usual. The first thing I did was to crack open a can of Coke Zero at 8:38 in the morning.
Most days a tall cup of coffee and my morning dose of royal news is good enough to get me going, but some days I'm so tired that I need both caffeine and sugar. Today was one of those days.
The one upside of daylight saving time has been that it's still light out by the time I get home and have had dinner. Monday and Tuesday especially when the weather was very mild and it was sunny outside, I felt renewed and energized. Today it's still very mild (14 degrees celcius!) but it's grey and rainy outside. By Friday we'll be back to seasonal temperatures with a chance of snow flurries.
With the hint of spring these past two days I'm excited for the warmer weather to come. I sent out my first Easter gift to a friend overseas and I had so much fun looking at the pretty pastel-coloured chocolates and the sunny Easter cards with bunnies and chicks on them. I even tried on some spring clothes afterwards. I can't wait to shed my sweaters and my heavy wool and cashmere winter jackets, my scarves and my hats and mittens. I have beautiful brightly coloured scarves to wear for spring and looking through my wardrobe the other day, I have fun tops for summer that I can't wait to wear again.
Come on spring!
