Ninety-Nine!

Day Ninety-Nine:  Rain is a Good Thing

Spring has landed and it only took me a few hours to realise that our weather changes in what feels like moments.  I went to campus this morning in a dress, three hours later having to change into jeans to walk downtown in the pouring rain.  It went from sunny to very wet in a very short period of time, and we are back into having real seasons again.  Call me traditional but I love me some good four Canadian seasons.  Predictable but not too predictable, temperature changes in the middle of the day, flowers?  Remember flowers?  Remember wearing your spring jacket and not going from winter jacket to shorts?

Spring is by far my least favourite season just because of the inconsistencies, but I am greeting it with open arms this year.  The rain is usually not bitter cold and bring green lawns in the summer instead of the dirt brown we’ve been having.  It’s an excuse to find a rain jacket and boots again, and break out an umbrella.  It means the seasons are back on track, and as much as I love the summer we needed to get our spring back.

What does this mean for my first two summer months?  I have become so accustomed to finishing my exams and tanning on the back deck in one week, but it seems as though this year I will have to adjust my plans (despite Cuba being two weeks away!!).  I was thinking for the generally good spring weather I’m expecting us to have this year it might be the perfect time to get up on the horse.  Not drastically hot uncomfortable weather where it will be a battle between wanting to enjoy a ride and wanting it to end because of the heat.  It might also be easier to learn when things are less busy, not to mention more low-key work hours.

I am also planning on walking a lot more, and being at the Grand every week if not more than once, and reading.  I want to finish books this summer, and not just a handful.  I think my goal before Camp starts (so before July) is to have finished five books (including Cuba because I enjoy shortcuts) but good, substantial books.  I’ve been wanting to read that Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for a really long time now, and I’ve got some recommendations for some serious topics as well as biographies.  I used to average twelve books a summer in only two months, and last summer I think I read four in four months.  That’s unacceptable to me, and so I’m going to change that.

I pledge to read five books this spring, and to get on a horse before July.  I pledge to get out of the house on my days off and spend time with my family instead of isolating myself in my room to watch tv shows.  If the weather’s smartening up maybe I should too, and if anything I will start with getting back on to my own track of  what I want to do.

Spring is akin to a breath of fresh air:  out with the dingy, stale winter and in with the new, blooming bright and booming spring!  It would be ludicrous to ignore the fallacy that is not mimicking the seasons and becoming bright and new myself!  Who am I to deny my goals of shaping and forming in front of my eyes?  I have the opportunities, now I pledge to actually follow through with them.  Spring, my dear friends, has sprung.

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