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Okay, Midwest Winter, we get it: you’re a badass. You can go away now. Print E-mail
Contributed by Lindsey Klingele   
Thursday, 06 March 2008
Seriously, who’s with me on the countdown to winter’s end? Who else is ready for beaches, sunshine and tan(-ish) skin? Who else is looking forward to putting damp scarves and winter colds behind them? Can I get a witness?

Okay, so I’ll skip typing out an even longer intro because my fingers are all chapped (from the wind, guttermind) and pounding out on these keys isn’t helping the situation. So, without further ado, I bring you:

A list of the things I am looking most forward to doing once my body thaws out

1. Barbequuuuues!

Nothing says summer like hot meat on a stick…man, I’m oh-for-two in trying to make this blog entry not sound it was written by a publicist for a $15 Lady of the Night/ Howard Stern. Screw it. Nothing says “summer’s almost here” like a little unintentional double entendre, am I right?

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, hot meat on a stick. Yup, still sounds good. Moving on.

2. 12 + hours of daylight For some reason I’m more productive when the sun sets past 4:30 p.m. And by “more productive,” I mean that I take the time to go and pull the shades over my windows so the sun doesn’t cast a glare on my TV during after-work reruns of “My Wife and Kids.”

3. Switching from regular coffee to iced coffee Oh wait, actually iced coffee is kind of gross after like three sips. Scratch this entry.

4. Reading Cosmo’s educational, yet topical, 2008 Guide to Summer Skin Care Which will be the exact same thing, verbatim, as the 2007, 2006 and 2005 Guides to Summer Skin Care. I don’t know about any years before that, though. I didn’t care about the state of my summer skin until 2005, when I learned that you can rub off freckles with the leaves of Sassafrass trees.*

*Not actually true.

5. Ummm, the summer Olympics?

Nothing screams summer like one billion Asians sitting in a packed stadium on a hot Beijing summer evening. Hell, throw in some hot dogs and ice cream, and that’s pretty much the definition of summer.

So that’s it. I should probably work on creating a longer list, but I’m too tired and cold to think, and sunset is fast approaching. Mazeltov.

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