So although it’s relatively warm here during the winter, there are definitely some changes that occur with the change of the “seasons,” and, as with everything in life, they come with their pros and cons:

Pros:

1. Cute scarves.

2. Better tea (Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride from Celestial Seasonings, anyone?)

3. Pumpkin and cinnamon flavored everything. Yesss.

4. I have an excuse for my Scandinavian chronic paleness.

5. Christmas lights in the palm trees.

6. Christina Aguilera’s “My Kind of Christmas” from 2001. I bust this out every year and it NEVER gets old.

Cons

1. The gym is packed. All the people who ran outside are now on my treadmill. Grr.

2. Flocked Christmas Trees. I don’t understand why Californians insist on this disgusting trend every year—WE LIVE IN CALIFORNIA. We don’t get snow. So buying a tree with FAKE snow on it, really? Tacky. Tacky and ungrateful. Let’s just take our 70 degree Christmas and move on; if we don’t have to deal with the cold that comes with the real stuff, we don’t deserve the fake stuff.

3. Remembering jackets. It’s just not in our nature to remember, and the nippy 58 degree weather is hard on our thin California blood!

But before I make the East Coasters too jealous, I will say that every California girl DOES occasionally pine for the hope of a snow day, a snowball fight and the ability to make snow angels.

What do you think? What are your favorite/least favorite things about winter?

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