i don't know why but i love the rain and cold. yes, i grew up in hawaii where the weather is quite predictably warm. it's been in the 30's here in oregon for a week or so, and i love it! unfortunately it hasn't snowed yet but i am waiting patiently. i missed the "white christmas" because i was in aforementioned warm climate. 
i love being able to bundle up and wear my big puffy jacket or peacoat. it's so nice to wear sweaters and sweats too. i LOVE seeing my breath outside when i breathe. last year about this time in late january it snowed and it was great!! i got to make a snowman and snowdog, snowboard in the street (sort of), watch maui run around and enjoy the snow with pogo, walk to work a mile in the snow (enjoying the crunch and quiet of the snow), sit inside in front of a fire in between playing in the snow, and just enjoy something kind of new. i look forward to the changing seasons and love the rain and cold while it lasts!
i do also love being able to go home to hawaii though and feel at home even though i'm only visiting. it will always be my home no matter where i go. hopefully i'll always be able to boogie board in the blue waters at waimanalo beach park where the sand is the finest you'll ever find. or trying to surf the small waves at white plains on my big ass board. there are many reasons why i don't live there but it's a great place. if i could somehow create real seasons there...i'd move in a heartbeat.
so now as i type and can't feel my hands or feet, i think about going out somewhere (like the gym) and just get lazy cause it's so nice to be in sweats and not do anything when it's cold. i am so comfortable! in hot weather i am always miserable unless i'm at the beach. most people think hawaii=beach but really not many people go to the beach everyday. hawaii is like any other place where when you live there you don't quite appreciate everything around you. maybe that is why i love oregon weather, it's not very extreme. you don't get to a point where you can't appreciate things because it changes pretty often. just about the time when you are hoping for warmer weather, you get it.
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yup, well, i agree on that, some of that. i like wearing sweaters and it's nice to be able to bundle up in warmth (whereas it's so much harder to get cool when the weather is scorching hot). except when you're in hawaii and figure that you can go everywhere in shorts and slippers and you get caught in the cold. i was freezing my 'nards off today and i had a sweater and jeans and everything, geez!
love those seasons, well, that's why i want to travel so much... but i need some money first!
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