It's March 25th already!! Hello?....Spring....are you out there? Somewhere? 

It's been a long winter in the Midwest. In our area, we have had the 4th largest snow accumulation in recorded history - according to the weatherman. And this week in particular, we are sporting temperatures that are 20 degrees below the average. So, in my desire to join the lamenting facebook community, I opened my front door to take a picture of this mucky miserableness in order that I should upload it for all the world wide web to see. Thereby joining the social networking collective ego so that I might find my due comfort in all of this...well, crap.

And then I thought to myself. Man, it takes a lot of work to actually get my camera out. (words in italics should be read internally with a distinctive whinny-ness)  This would mean actually finding it, having to open the door and let in the cold, uploading the photo to my computer and eventually downloading it to this blog... or am I downloading to my computer and uploading to my blog...or to my photo editor and then downloading....   never mind. It just seemed like too much work. So then I thought to myself, "Hey! I have a picture just like this on facebook already!"

Oh, I sure did. Or do.

And then it hit me. I'll blame it on the lupus fog, this inability to remember the very lessons I aspire to live my life by. You know, the whole being present in the moment bit. Like the comment I made two days ago in the very post that precedes this one:

Hum... That's interesting.

And here's my caption:

And here's the conversation that followed under said picture, on facebook:

I promise you, there was no photoshopping of either picture. If I'm not mistaken, the second one is just a tad bit on the dreary side. In fact, the trees look depressed! At least in the picture on top the sky is blue and the pines are reaching up as if to say, "Praise be Spring!" Yet, today, I see miserableness. In November, I saw peace.

So what's changed? I still have my family. I still live in the same beautiful home. My income has actually increased due to disability payments and the financial strain of Christmas is actually nine months away and not ONE, thank God. I still have food to eat and lots of good books to read. We actually have a new car now, one that is much more dependable and cost efficient. So what the heck?