There are a million different ways to warm yourself up. You could take a hot shower, wrap yourself in blankets, or start a fire and sit next to it. I have used all of these methods before and each of them does the trick. It has been cold here recently and it has also rained. When it is cold and rainy sometimes the only way that truly works for me to warm up is to cuddle up next to my significant other. There is a warmth that they give off that warms more than just my body. I know it is cheesy to say, but laying next to someone you love warms you right down to the soul. I sit and read while he works away diligently tapping on the keyboard or flipping pages in his book. When the weather outside turns cold, blustery, and inhospitable it makes the warmth given by a loved one that much better. Their presence seems to ensure that although the weather is harsh there is still calm and serenity. It is nice to have that soothing feeling. It is all too easy to get wrapped up in the traffic, bad drivers, and uncomfortable wetness that comes with the rain. Having a calm warm person to cuddle up next to is the best way to shrug off the cold and rain from the day. Wrapping up in a cozy blanket next to my boyfriend is the perfect way to heat up and wind down. It truely is an unbelievably safe, and comforting warmth.

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What is your favorite plant? Have you ever really thought about it? Do you even have a favorite plant? Is thinking about your favorite plant just an unimportant waste of time? Well, I guess that’s all relative. If botany is your profession, or bonsai is your hobby, than chances are you do have a favorite flora and it’s actually quite important in your little world. All of us have our own little worlds in which we place importance on various items or concepts. I, for example, have a favorite bone. It’s the clavicle. For one thing I think the fluidity in the lines of the collar bones are beautiful aspects of the human body. Another reason I dig this bone is because it’s useful and reliable when counting osteons to determine the age of a skeletal specimen. Does this matter to most of the world’s population? Absolutely not and I’m 100 percent okay with that. I’m studying forensic anthropology and in my world, the clavicle plays a big role in my work and research. I do not find the weather to be of any major importance in my life though. If it’ cold, I’ll dress warm. Studying the forecast online or during the newscast isn’t one of my priorities nor will it ever be but for some people this is a very important part of their day. Different strokes for different folks. All I’m saying is don’t poo poo what others find important because like beauty, importance is in the eye of the beholder. We should all be happy that everything is of importance to someone out there because that is how progress and innovation come about.

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Today was just another blah day. The weather wanted to make me crawl into bed and go back to sleep. However unless you have the most awesome child in the whole world then chances are you are going to be up all day. We hummed around the house wishing we could get out and do something. Snow isn’t thick enough to build anything and let her enjoy it and there wasn’t any money to go shopping like I wanted to. Sometimes I wish that money was never an option for anyone so that when I got ready to go out and do something I had no restrictions. However we do in this life and so we stayed at home trying to figure out what was for lunch. My daughter always wants to have chips and hot sauce so we made homemade chips from corn tortillas and had some hot sauce and sat down to watch a Christmas movie. I love when it seems like that time of the year were everything is snowy and Christmas music is playing and you can cuddle up with your kiddos and enjoy their company all day long. After watching a Christmas movie and just relaxing in the warmth of our home blessed to have the things we do have we curled up in a blanket and went to sleep. Little did I know I had a sleeping possum so our great day soon turned into a fun filled clean up the nail polish day.

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Everyone has their own opinions on how they like to watch games. Some people prefer being in a bar and watching the game on a big TV and being able to order drinks and eat. Some people like to just sit at home and watch from the comfort of their couch. And some people prefer to actually be at the game, no matter what. I think I am all three of those, depending on what sport I am watching. When it comes to football, I want to be there. Especially at a Texas Tech game. I love being at the games, yelling all the specific yells that the student section does, and hearing the band. But, since I love football so much I also really enjoy games on TV. When it comes to baseball, I like to be there, as well, but only if the weather is really pretty. I don’t want to tough it out for a baseball game if it’s freezing, but for football I will. There aren’t many baseball teams that I’d even take the time to watch on TV, but I love watching the Cubs. So, since I can’t go to Chicago any time they play, I have to settle for watching on TV. If I know the Tech Baseball team is playing and the weather is nice, I like to go to the games at watch, but I don’t follow them religiously. When it comes to basketball, I’m content never seeing a game on TV. The only time I even care to watch is when I get to go and they’re really good seats. If not, then I wont even see a basketball game all season. I guess it’s just a personal preference, but of course all sports are better in person!

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The grass is greener on the other side has a much more literal meaning for me. I have a hard time deciding what type of weather I want. When it’s hot outside, I wish it were cooler. But, when I’m freezing, all I can think about is the summer time and being outside in the sun. The only real seasons I can enjoy myself are certain times in the spring and certain times in the fall. Right at the end of winter when it starts to get warm, those first few weeks when you can wear shorts and still be comfortable, those are the best. It’s not quite warm enough to be laying by the pool, but you still feel the warm sun on your skin after a cooler morning. And, when the summer is starting to come to an end, the evenings are cooler and it feels so good to sit outside. You aren’t sweating any time you leave the house, but during the middle of the day it’s still warm enough to be at the pool and be comfortable. And, each season that I’m in I wish I was in the other one so I could wear the clothes that come with it. When it’s hot outside, I want to wear jeans and my cute beanies, but I can’t. When I’m freezing and going out, I always wish that I could wear a sleeveless top or a dress and be comfortable, but I can’t. I wish it was just the beginning of spring time weather all year!

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Here lately I have been craving some outside time. I want to go to the lake and do some fishing before it gets too cold, or I want to just go camping out somewhere pretty. Derek is going to McLean next week for Thanksgiving and he gets to go hunting while he’s there. I am hoping that while I am home for the holidays we at least go out and shoot or do something fun like that. I just know that when the weather starts to freeze I am going to miss being outside or at the lake or camping and I want to get some kind of fun outside trip in before it’s too late! Maybe I can convince my dad that we need to go fishing at the lake before Thanksgiving, because I know that he took off the week for vacation and he’s going to be hanging around the house. I assume they are going to watch to try and go shopping for black Friday this year and I’d really rather opt out of that and do something fun, and I bet it wouldn’t be hard to get my brother and dad to go with me because I know they would rather do something like that than be trapped in the mall with a million people going crazy. Or, maybe I’ll just have to set up a tent in my backyard with my dogs. That’s kind of roughing it. I’ll get to see the stars outside and some wild animals outside of my tent. That is going to be my last choice though for sure.

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I am so ready for it to snow here! I love this time of the year, I have always lived in a town where it snows around this time of the year, and here in Lubbock it doesn’t really do the same thing. Although my home town is only 170 miles north of here, the weather is completely different during this time of year. They have already gotten snow a few times this season, and we have yet to see one little flurry. When I was in school there, we had actual snow days because we couldn’t leave the house to get to work, here they will have them when it starts to snow a little beause they are scared of the drivers. There are a lot of people living in Lubbock from Southern Texas to go to college, and none of them really know how to drive on the ice. I’ve been driving on ice my whole life so I usually feel pretty safe behind the wheel, but it’s the others out there that don’t really know what they are doing that makes it dangerous. It’s not their fault, they just haven’t had to deal with it and sometimes do dangerous things while out on the road that puts themselves and others in danger. I have yet to built a snow man in Lubbock, while in Dumas we sometimes build entire igloos just for fun with the snow. I’ve never had an issue getting my car out, while sometimes in Dumas I wasn’t able to leave the driveway beause of the snow behind my car. I hope we get a good snow this year while I am in town visiting, or we get a decent one here in Lubbock!

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So there’s actually a law in Texas stating that the government will develop a program that controls the weather. Oh yeah, it’s there folks. “20.003. Weather Modification and Control Grant Program: The department shall develop and administer a program awarding matching grants to political subdivisions of this state for weather modification and control.” This has to be the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. Do I really have to type it in times new roman size 12 before people realize YOU CAN’T CONTROL THE WEATHER? How could such coveted positions in government be held by such retards. Who passes a law like that? That would be a good topic to look up, past earth dwellers who thought they had control over the weather. Well them along with whoever wrote this damn law should go to the place for crazies because they’re not right in the head. If we could control the weather don’t you think that someone would have figured out how to do it a long time ago and we’d never even know what a tornado or hurricane were? Weather is one powerful force of nature and there’s definitely not a damn thing we can do about it. Sure there’s global warming and all that bullshit so yes, I guess we can effect the weather but only in a very small way and that very small way is not positively.

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Texas weather is wack. Our state is generally thought to have a warmer climate but I’m not real sure why people make this misconception. It gets pretty damn cold here in the winter folks. It’s nothing like the East Coast or anything but we can get some awful winter weather around these parts. I feel like Texas has a lot of extremes in its weather. It can be in the 90s one day and 65 the next. Talk about getting sick and staying sick! I’ve never seen anything like it. The worst is when it rains here in West Texas. It’s so damn flat that there is nowhere for the water to go. Once the ground is saturated, the roads turn into small rivers and you literally need a small boat to get around. You would think that someone would have taken care of such a HUGE problem by now but no such luck. Texas is also famous for having spectacular thunderstorms. Around the beginning of April they start rolling in and they can be hell. These awful storms can produce hail and even spawn tornadoes. I love watching the lighting that usually accompanies the dark clouds though. It lights up the sky and literally puts on a show for you. Amazing. Hurricanes also give the coast of Texas A LOT of trouble. The gulf coast seems to be right smack in the middle of every other hurricane that forms. Poor Galveston Island. They got it bad last year. It just goes to show what a few hours of wind and rain can do.

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I love the fall. I think it’s the prettiest season, with all the colors changing slowly and the weather is the prettiest. Here we are, sitting at the beginning of November, and in Lubbock, Texas the weather still feels like it’s summertime some days. I’m in no way ready for the cold snowy weather that will be here next month, but I was expecting it to be a little cooler here by now. Some days, it’s freezing and I go outside wearing long sleeves and a sweater, and then by one it’s hot outside. Other days, I swear shorts and when the sun goes down the weather turns to freezing. I understand that is a big part of living in West Texas, the weather can never make up it’s mind. But last Saturday was annoying. We went to the Texas Tech football game that was scheduled to start at 2 around noon. We got there, it was chilly, I had grabbed a scarf and an extra sweater for later on during the day. By halftime I was sweating and wishing I could take all my clothes off. I came home, and actually had a sun burn on the side of my face. It’s hard to know what to bring to an outing when you know you wont be back for several hours and the weather can just do anything during that time. Today was perfect, pretty warm during the day time and sunny, but right now, and with the time change, the sun is slowly starting to set and it’s cooled off quite a bit. West Texas may be pretty unpredictable, but I can’t imagine living anywhere else.

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