Dear Winter...
I think it's time we had "A Talk."
We've been in this relationship for ages -- this on and off again thing that occurs every year. It's come to the point where I dread the time we spend together. Even the thought of seeing you taints my fall days.
I long for the years where our relationship was one of mutual affection. You snowed, and I was happy. You were the fresh air that gave depth to my hot fling with summer. Summer, who I confess I love more than anything. Summer gives me what I need... and while encouraging my nights out, still manages to keep me comfortable and happy. Exercise. Fresh food. Warm nights on the patio with drinks in my hand, or sitting on a rock by the lake.
You, however, have turned selfish. You arrived early this year. You had me shivering before I had a chance to bid farewell to fall. You dumped unwanted snow, ice and slush before even greeting me. Sure, we had a few good nights, and I can't deny the power of your beauty... though it fades to brownness only days later.
We can't continue like this. Seeing your face every morning fills me with misery. I long for the days when you leave my bedside and disappear until fall's departure forces your return. I'd do almost anything to escape your tenacious clutches for even a few days.
Let's face it, Winter. You and I aren't meant to be. So let's just call it a day. Let's admit our attraction has waned over the last two decades.
Have a talk with the money gods, and I'll do my best to stay as far away from you as I can.
No, no -- don't look at my like that. You're still beautiful and very attractive. You're just not the one for me. So let go. Please.
With significantly lessened affection,
Me.
posted by /hg | 2:38 p.m.
7 Comments:
Aaauuusstrraaaaaaliiaaaaaaaaaa.
It needed to be said.
Rest assured, Australia is on my list of places to live for at least six months.
I'd spend way less time in this country if my wallet and credit cards weren't in constant agony.
hannah, you twat, i LIVE in Vietnam. it's v. hot. just right for you. come visit. like, NOW!
*sob*
Oh, why do the gods of poverty torment me so?
I would if I could swing the airfare/expenses -- but it's ridiculously impossible for me right now. Unless things clear up in the next few months.
Can you stay put until the fall?
sure, but we may have moved on from Sai Gon by then to be elsewhere in Vietnam. but it will still be somewhere hot, sticky and interesting.
think Da Nang... or maybe Hue... but it's still only an hours flight from Ha Noi or Sai Gon.
and you like the food *shudder* here, don't you? that means you'll be cheap to feed as well :-)
goin' back to europe in march, but only for a quick visit. plus i think thuy wants to spend her 40th birthday in paris, so that gives us another excuse to go. though i know what you mean about the expense - i could live comfortably for three months in Vietnam for the price of one round-trip flight to europe.
tell young chris to work harder to pay for your flights!
I don't think I've eaten Vietnamese food more than once or twice here, but I'm pretty adaptable to any place that serves veggies.
Chris is working a full-time job, a part-time weekend job (Fridays and Saturdays until at least 3 am) and has just set up a freelance gig with a coworker for after work. I'm not sure how much harder you want him to work?
ah, but here you get veggies with fermented fish sauce, and chicken with fermented fish sauce, and dessert with fermented fish sauce... you get the picture? in short, i've never seen better looking (or worse tasting) food in my entire life. you will lose several kilos if you stay here a couple of weeks :-)
and chris can work just a little harder so you can get here before 2011.
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