It's Oh So Cold

(photo cred - random photos from tumblr )

As Insane as it may sound, this is my absolute favorite time of the year.  I don't know why, but when it gets cold I get happier, I get calmer and my whole ora is just filled with hot chocolate and joy. I was just freezing cold (not literally) all day today so I realized it was time to make a post... a post about all of the cool things to do when it's cool.

Okay so, let's do this in list form... top 5 style?

Okay? Okay.

5. Socks

An excuse to buy all of the warm socks your mother will afford you. I seriously love socks and lucky for me, my mother is a sock enthusiast so she will get just as -- if not more excited than i do about socks so she totally understands my extreme need for them.

4. Hot Chocolate, Tea & Seasonal Flavorings of Coffee. 

Holy guacamole I love warm drinks... I especially love making them myself and having them actually be all homemade and good. My favorite thing is peppermint and gingerbread flavored coffee flavors, they're absolutely fabulous oh my goodness. I especially love peppermint tea -- it just might be my favorite thing plus oh my gosh, don't get me started on chai tea, yeah it's just that good. 

3. Sweaters

Christmas Sweaters, Striped Sweaters, Warm Sweaters I love them all. This is the time of the year when my mother likes to take me to goodwill and she lets me buy all of the sweaters I can carry.  I use the cold weater as my excuse for needing warmer sweaters to wear to school and other places. Sweaters are the absolute best, let me tell you. You can honestly never ever go wrong with wearing one.

2. The atmosphere

I don't know if you've noticed but when it gets colder, people are usually warmer, They're more focused on Christmas and being good citizens so that they won't get coal from Santa, they're not busy worrying about the stressful-ness of being an angst-ridden teenager in the twenty first century.

1.  Winter Break & Reading

Due to school and homework and socializing and just generally being a teenager from an 80's movie, I almost never actually have time to read for enjoyment. So, I usually utilize Thanksgiving Break to finish homework and projects, which leaves almost all of Winter Break for me to read as much as I like without any restrictions or consequences (except maybe my library fine).

So, yeah... Those are my top fives about Winter Weather (and winter in general kinda).

Until next time, 

xoxo, 

gossip girl

(jk it's alijah)