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Seriously,,, I am one of those Oregonians that say, on cue, when someone says ,,”I wouldn’t be able to deal with all the rain in the Pacific Northwest” … I say, “Ohhhh you would totally get used to it, and at the end of summer, your body CRAVES the rain…”   And they sit there with their head cocked like,, COO COO for cocoa puffs this chick is……    Ummm yah… well here we are, having survived the WORST spring break ever, filled, almost everyday with rain…. and then you take a look at the forecast for this week, and there are raindrops on every single damn day. There’s no sunshine icon on there…. in fact…. the next time you see sunshine in the forecast, it’s half shaded by a damn cloud with a 75% chance of rain.  After having moved from sunny San Diego, Ca to Seattle in whatever year it was… ummm… like 2001 0r 2002 I think, I kept telling myself that I would get “used” to the climate and that my body would “acclimate” to the weather. Which, in all actuality, it really did. And it’s still acclimated, but it’s this time of year that I’m seriously hiding the knives in my kitchen utensil drawer in fear of slitting my ever lovin’ wrists because of lack of sunshine and the ability to go outside.  And I like go outside and look around at all the people running (including my husband) and think to myself.. “YOU ARE JUST WHACKED!!!”  ”GO BACK INSIDE YOU WIERDO”  GOSH!!!!!

History repeats itself every year… right around this time.  Husband starts looking for jobs in warmer climates. He is a very tolerant man, of many things. But when HE says,, “Gosh,, will it ever stop raining?”  I know, at that moment, that my crazy-ness in my head is justified, and it allows me to pinpoint where my crazys are coming from.  LACK OF SUNSHINE..   what is the vitamin?? Vitamin D ?? DEFICIENT indeedy!!   We are the people that go to Mexico , or here I am headed to California next week with the kids, where the sun has been shining, the grass has been growing, the ground is dry, and in every single last family photo, there I am,, with my kids, friggen squinting and totally pale and pastey in every last shot. Everyone around us are semi tan, bright eyed. It’s April for cryin outloud.  I about wanted to punch Stephanie Karlavich last night on fox 12 news when she said,, “And I’ll be back in a moment to tell you if we’ll be seeing any of that bright light in the sky in the near future.”  And I’m like.. yah,, whatever .  We refer to the sunshine as the “bright light in the sky”….. PATHETIC..   

Now granted……  Oregon has theeeeeeee best summers EVER.  It never really gets above 95… and when it does, it makes national news.  90 degree weather constitutes busting out all the window A/C units and Home Depot is flooded with peeps walking in there all dry and shriveled up from the unusual “HEAT-WAVE”…  my gosh.   Please remind me in August when I’m bitching about the heat of THIS VERY DAY where I blogged about the cold wet weather.  I need those reminders from time to time.  

One of my facebook friends just got back from Cabo San Lucas down in Mexico……  and her status read..”It’s really hard getting back to the grind after a week in Cabo”….  and seriously, all I wanted to do (which I ultimately ended up commenting) was … “I don’t even want to hear it!!”…     I would love nothing more, right this very second, than to be lounging in a dilapidated chair, on the beach, in hot white sand, with a bikini on, sucking down some foo foo drink, saying “no gracias” to the, ehem, sterling silver vendors, and staring at the pacific ocean with sweaty pits than to be sitting here right now in my Vermont sweatshirt, long pants, socks and sneakers…..  I mean… where’s my beanie for cryin’ outloud??!!!????   

So I sit here and contemplate the possible move to California (which I’ve VOWED to never live there again ever), which my husband may or may not be applying for a job down there with the U.S. Forest Service.  There are always govt jobs popping up across the map of the U.S.  for him to apply for. This one job in particular happens to be in a foothill town just outside of Yosemite National Park.   In fact, I’ve even put the town in my Iphone weather application, so that when I’m staring out at the lovely gray horizon off my deck here, I can flip pages to the page where it says that it’s going to be 71 degrees tomorrow, 69 the day after and 73 the day after that………….   Maybe that’s why so many people live in California… the weather.  

But then I sit here and think about the dynamics of Oregon.  It is utterly and totally gorgeous here. Every tree is green. Every tree is green all year long. It’s a coniferous state. Yah, the rain never stops, but everywhere you look it’s green. And not only is the landscape green, but the people are green. We are very, VERY, savvy of our environment, and my kids attend a “premier green school” .. in that,  environmental studies and practices are part of the day to day class stuff.  NOOOOOOO I don’t have dredlocks, and NOOO I don’t hit the bong everyday…and NOOOO we don’t consider granola a dessert… OR a food group… ehem…   But we are raising our kids, and hoping that they learn that taking care of our earth is as important as learning multiplication…   In the big picture…  If it wasn’t for our earth,, we would have nowhere to LEARN our arithmetic..   get it??

Blah blah blah…   I’m just bored…  pardon this blog.  Point being is that I’m sick n’ tired of the flippen rain.. and I’m sick of it every year this time of year….  It’s so mundane and monotonous…  just neverending.  Go outside…. you get wet…..  come inside,,, my entryway is a muckin’ muddy mess….  jackets stink, our dog, Loosha,, just constant stank….  I’ve HAD IT!!  I’m serious… the first day that the temperature reaches above 60 damn degrees… you’ll see me running naked down my street………    no joke….   and all that see me will be saying… “Hey look….(chuckle chuckle) ,, there’s that wierdo that lives on Riverview.. look at her.. she’s naked…”…..    not exaggerating….

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