Three cheers for spring!

       I grew up in the portland area, where snow is a magical, bi-yearly event if you're lucky. The schools close, people abandon their cars on the freeway, and you aren't expected to brave an inch of snow to get to work even. It's a wonderful time of fancy and whimsy for all involved. Snow= lots of hot chocolate, all day sledding parties, and absolutely no responsibility aside from kicking the snow off of my boots every time I came back inside (or my mom would yell at us).
       This being my background, I was a HUGE fan of utah's winters the first 2-3 years I lived down here. Snow was a beautiful and fun event and I didn't mind it one bit. It still made me all squishy and excited every time it happened.
       ... 5-7 years later, walking outside and seeing the snow almost automatically provokes swearing under my breath and flabbergasted eye rolling as I waddle out to my car to take 20 minutes to scrape the ice and snow off of it. I just get so freakin' sick of it. It doesnt matter if it snows a foot 1/2 here, you're still expected to go to school and to work as if nothing's different. Then there's the hell that is driving in snowy provo. Utah drivers are bad enough on dry ground- but they seem to take the snow as a challenge or a dare to see how retarded and wrecklessly they can drive.
       The snow doesn't just show up all pretty creating a snowglobe effect then melt in a timely manner like in the NW either. It lingers around for months, forming massive mounds of dirt/sludge that border every road and parking lot. It makes it impossible to keep a car even remotely clean at all, and it just makes provo look so ugly and desolate. So though I can still appreciate the beauty of freshly falling snow as I stare at it out of my window- I do believe that my child-like innocence will never be regained.
       With that being said, it's March 1st tomorrow and it hasnt snowed here in an entire week! Hip hip hooray! I honestly am SO excited for spring to come. I want to see flowers and leaves and green again. I want my car to stay clean for longer than the drive home from the car wash. I want to be able to sit in the grass outside and read. I want to go walking or bike riding. I'm almost sad I've already graduated because I used to LOVE to see campus come alive the first week the snow was gone. Everyone was out and about, playing frisbee and sitting on the grassy knolls that border the walking paths of BYU. It's just a fun time in general and I can't wait.
       Plus, spring time means baby time! Tomorrow is March, and my baby's coming sometime by the end of april, which means that as of tomorrow, when people ask me how long until the baby comes, I can reply "She'll be here next month!"- I mean really, how freakin' cool is that? So three cheers for spring!!!