If music imitated present wrapping, my ability to wrap presents would closely resemble some high school garage speed death metal music. As opposed to my wife, whose ability to wrap presents is more closely related to Mozart or Beethoven. It's just a talent I have never possessed. Refined abilities escape me very easily, and I'm okay with that. That's why whenever we give birthday presents or presents at Christmas time, she wraps them for us. I'm the reason department stores offer gift wrapping.
This year I have been in more of the holiday spirit because of the weather. It's because of the snow. In the past several years, I have waited to the week or so before Christmas to get my shopping done and I think it is in part to it not feeling like winter. There wouldn't be any snow on the ground and it would still feel like the fall. It wouldn't cross my mind to go Christmas shopping and not be one of those people that does all the shopping on the twentieth of December. Being up in Minnesota now, it has felt like winter because we had some snow on the ground at Thanksgiving time! It's been in the twenties or below the past week and it makes me happy.
So here I sit, in the bedroom taking a break from my death metal wrapping to write a little bit about being happier because we are some place that reminds me of my childhood in the sense of it feeling like winter more than a week out of the year.
Sorry Kansas, but that's another strike against us ever moving back.
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