Today is honestly my third favorite holiday of the year. Right after Christmas and Thanksgiving. Laugh if you must, but Daylight Savings Time is a yearly major improvement of the quality of my life. An extra hour of daylight (that would have been missed while I slept) and increasing temperatures is just what I need after a long, nasty, depressing winter.

There were a few days this week where it was warm and the snow melted. I wore flip-flops, refused my jacket, and really enjoyed myself. Sadly, last night decided to get ugly and snowy, but this doesn’t destroy my hope. Spring will always win in the end.

Spring and Summer are by far the best seasons for me. It’s nice to have changing leaves in the fall, but after a few weeks (including the dropping temperatures) I am quite fed up with it. Winter always hits me delightfully. I love the first snow. Then I hate the subsequent months of it. I think this is why I like Spring so much. It takes away the general gloom of post-first-snow-novelty-slush/snow/darkness.

Here are some things I’ll be looking forward to in the coming months:

• Not having my car door freeze shut on me: Last night I had to ice skate back to my car, climb in through the passenger side, and brave a drive home that could lightly be called “dangerous”.
• Warmer temperatures in general: Not having to bundle up every time I want to go downtown brings a lovely sense of freedom.
• Light past 6pm: The sun’s working a little more with my schedule finally.
• Vegetation: This is a big one. Plant life coming back is really uplifting. It makes being outside enjoyable
• Fireflies: The Pennsylvania state insect is the Pennsylvania Firefly (“Lightning bugs”). When these guys come out, it makes a night in the spring or summer simply awesome. I always get mad when people squish them.
• Shoes become non-compulsory.
• Outdoor naps become acceptable again.
• The Blue Loop (campus bus) won’t always be full because people don’t want to walk in the cold. And even if it is, who cares, it’s nice out anyways.
• Rain will be enjoyable instead of bone-chilling.
• Thunderstorms will return to be watched.
• Stargazing becomes a possibility for a night’s activity.
• My birthday will happen (and all the subsequent madness of turning 21 at PSU)
• Outdoor activities (hiking, frisbee, barbecues, sunbathing, etc.)
• Fewer instances of Raynaud’s Phenominon: I have this circulatory weirdness when my hands are exposed to cold temperatures. The second they start to warm up, the blood vessels in my fingers constrict and my hands change colors a few times and it really kind of hurts. It’s a minor annoyance but an annoyance nonetheless and the only time it happens during Spring is if I hold a cold drink for too long. So, yeah. woo woo.

K, so that’s all I could come up with right now. I’m pumped for this Spring business to be happening.