winter's back with a vengeance...

...i guess i got really spoiled in january when temperatures averaged in the 40s...now that february has hit us with below freezing temps and some lake effect snow (which really probably won't survive to the weekend), i have to admit i can't wait for spring...

i've become such a cold weather wuss...it's hard to believe that when i was a kid growing up in chicago, winter was my favorite season...maybe it's because my very first winter in the united states included the infamous chicago blizzard of '79...we didn't have snow days home from school...it was more like snow WEEKS...i guess when you're a kid you just love playing in the snow and are oblivious to the cold...i can't imagine what my parents must have thought...they must have wondered what strange land this was that they'd gotten themselves into...