tales of a charm city chick

Based on personal experience and observations of others, this is how to winter:

1. Celebrate drink-related fake things during the week like “Taco Tuesday” and “Wine Wednesday” because as you age you suddenly need a reason to drink too many margaritas or glasses of wine on a weeknight.

2. Look super pale and deathly like the objectified models in ads that can embed themselves into the subconscious mind (you go, girl!)

3. Stare out into the night with your hand on the window and sing a made up, melancholic song to confuse your boyfriend. They like that.

4. Sled or ice skate, I guess, if you like that sort of thing.

5. Get out of town with your hubby for a weekend getaway to Cabo or the Caymans or whatever! Or, if you’re poor or single, or both, try wearing a bikini and cranking up the heat one evening and just pretend! It’s all the same!

6. Complain about winter on Facebook until it finally gets God’s attention.

7. Wrap yourself up in a blanket like a burrito. That’s fun.

8. Try to blog, but delete every post because “it’s dumb.”

9. Don’t worry about completing posts, especially when your boyfriend is loudly singing Janis Joplin in your ear. It’s distracting.

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