I can't believe it didn't snow last night. So lame. I wanted snow. ha. I wanted to hit someone with a snowball, make a tiny snowman, or a snow angel, or just look at the snow laden world with a glimmer in my eye.

I really like foggy snowy mornings. I love to wake up and catch a glimpse of hazy grayness through a crack in the blinds, and when I look out the window and actually see the fade into white and swirling flurries....ah, it's so pretty.

It makes me want to snuggle up with a cup of steaming tea, a blanket, and a friend. hah. Watch Pride and Prejudice or read Chronicles of Narnia or something. It just has that feeling to it. It's a good feeling.

I love to feel like it's a certain time of year, it doesn't matter if it's cliche or not, it should be, because everyone should like to say "I love this time of year." The whole year is good. I love transition times between seasons the most. But, I still like the feeling of the happy and fun of summer. It's good to goof around and get muddy playing kickball and bombardment and capture the flag, and go out on boats and go wakeboarding and intertubing, get bruised and tired. Whether you're sitting at the beach running in the sand and jumping over waves or going to the park and swinging on old rickity swings and playing guitars and kicking hacki-sacks, or even just sitting at home dying of heat, sucking on ice cubes and not doing anything at all - that's summer to me. I like the feeling of the grass on my barefoot and my skin burning. It makes me love it all the more when it gets cold.

Taking walks on windy, brisk days with leaves scattered all around, wearing a soft sweater, always having an excuse for wanting to snuggle under a blanket...love it. Makes me want to crochet. Then the actual holidays themselves hit and I get to really bask in the warmth and togetherness of things. Thanksgiving is just full of fun memories that always come back around. And then there's the looking forward to all the traditional December things we do every year - caroling, making Christmas cookies for people, extended late night hanging out times during break, people I haven't seen in a while coming to visit. It's just good. I love being around people, but I especially like being around the people I've been around for ever. I like it. Winter is a good month.

And these are just the silly things that I enjoy about times. None of that would be any fun on it's own. It's who I get to do them with that makes it fun. It's how I get to get to know someone, or make someone feel loved, or how they make me feel loved. I wish there was never any difficulty in going and doing something, because I love to have people just do things with me. Even if it's like, really stupid. So what if it's just walking around in Seattle and taking stupid pictures of each other, or going mini-golfing, or taking a hike at snoqualmie falls, creating something, or just driving out to some little town for no reason at all. It's just an excuse to be with you, and that's okay.

I guess I should be able to answer the question, "what do you do for fun?" But the most fun thing to me is just spontaneous stuff. I don't mean spontaneous like, 'that's crazy,' I mean more like, spontaneous, random idea, 'that's not planned...Who cares, lets do it."

So I can romanticize this for as long as I like, but it's all a chasing after the wind. It's not the really important stuff. You can say, "enjoy life, enjoy the simple things," making that the most important thing, but I think it would be good to really learn to enjoy the 'complex' and 'big' things that you do too. But then, the real important thing is God. He wants us to enjoy life, but how much more can we enjoy it if we're seeking after Him with it? What are you doing for him? How are you doing it? Motives can be so selfish.

wow I just deleted a bunch of stuff by accident. haha. This got all deep and stuff. Aw well. It doesn't matter. No one would believe me being deep anyway. But I'm so not retyping any of it.

-becca