Maarten, Max, Maurits and Keesie!
Tuesday 9 March, 2010
It's all about balance!
The universe is playing some cruel tricks on me, I'm sure. It took me some time to figger it out, but it is truly staring me in the face and I finally got it.
This is the deal.
It has been winter FOREVER in this country and this is not from the point of the-island-girl-who-would-rather-be-in-a-warm-place-ANY-warm-place-but-here. No, objectively speaking it has been winter FOREVER!! Winter started in the beginning of november with ice and heavy snowfall around mid-november. Untill december the snow was nice. In january I was in neutral about the cold and the snow since the kids were enjoying it so much.
In February I perceived it as an annoying fact which was cramping my style (try flaunting your worldly goods like beautiful necklaces and bracelets when you are covered from top to toe in woolen scarfs and other warm-keeping materials... you get my point?) This is around the same time that Maurits would rather stay in then play outside telling me that his house in India was much much warmer then this house in this country.
We are well into march and it still freezing! It was snowing again yesterday!!!!
IS THERE NO END TO THIS SUFFERING?????? (I asked myself)
Well the answer to this very obvious answer is no.
Not yet.
It's all about balance. You see. We left the Nederlands in Januari (mid-winter), and we stayed away for about three years. Only to return last october just before winter kicked in. An easy calculation will show, beyond reasonable doubt, that we missed 2,5 winters and to restore peace in the universe (and the hole in the ozon layer), it is imperative for us to make up for this omission.
As a result of this we (and the rest of Holland with us) will have to sit through 2,5 more winterdays. If cold winter normally lasts 2 months, this year it will last 7 months. This means that we will not be leaving the below zero temperatures till the first of may. I feel like a the main character in Salman Rusdhie's midnights childeren whose fate was entangled with the faith of India after independence. (read it! Not because Rushdie is a Bombay-boy, but the book is amazing!!!) So Holland, because we missed a few winters, this has to be done.
Anyway, the sceptici amongst you will surely say that this is close to impossible. To those of you I say:
" Dah!!!"
Read Gabriel Garcia Marquesz, everything is possible!!!!!
This is not my personal frustration talking, but a scientific explanation of a phenomenon that makes even the Dutch long for warmer days.
Mark my words!! Winter will be over in May.
This is the deal.
It has been winter FOREVER in this country and this is not from the point of the-island-girl-who-would-rather-be-in-a-warm-place-ANY-warm-place-but-here. No, objectively speaking it has been winter FOREVER!! Winter started in the beginning of november with ice and heavy snowfall around mid-november. Untill december the snow was nice. In january I was in neutral about the cold and the snow since the kids were enjoying it so much.
In February I perceived it as an annoying fact which was cramping my style (try flaunting your worldly goods like beautiful necklaces and bracelets when you are covered from top to toe in woolen scarfs and other warm-keeping materials... you get my point?) This is around the same time that Maurits would rather stay in then play outside telling me that his house in India was much much warmer then this house in this country.
We are well into march and it still freezing! It was snowing again yesterday!!!!
IS THERE NO END TO THIS SUFFERING?????? (I asked myself)
Well the answer to this very obvious answer is no.
Not yet.
It's all about balance. You see. We left the Nederlands in Januari (mid-winter), and we stayed away for about three years. Only to return last october just before winter kicked in. An easy calculation will show, beyond reasonable doubt, that we missed 2,5 winters and to restore peace in the universe (and the hole in the ozon layer), it is imperative for us to make up for this omission.
As a result of this we (and the rest of Holland with us) will have to sit through 2,5 more winterdays. If cold winter normally lasts 2 months, this year it will last 7 months. This means that we will not be leaving the below zero temperatures till the first of may. I feel like a the main character in Salman Rusdhie's midnights childeren whose fate was entangled with the faith of India after independence. (read it! Not because Rushdie is a Bombay-boy, but the book is amazing!!!) So Holland, because we missed a few winters, this has to be done.
Anyway, the sceptici amongst you will surely say that this is close to impossible. To those of you I say:
" Dah!!!"
Read Gabriel Garcia Marquesz, everything is possible!!!!!
This is not my personal frustration talking, but a scientific explanation of a phenomenon that makes even the Dutch long for warmer days.
Mark my words!! Winter will be over in May.
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