Polar Vortex

Dearest P.V.,
We’ve spent many looonnnnggggg nights together this winter and its been fun. When I felt like just curling up for a long sleep, you woke me with your whispers in my ear saying you wanted more. And I gave you more… and more… and more. I gave you my warmth but you just take and take and take.
You torture and tease me, being with me for days on end and then suddenly vanishing without a trace… only to show up unannounced a few days later on my doorstep using your feminine wiles to work your way back in. No matter how numb and cold and blue you have left me, there is no way to resist your charms.
I know you feel deeply for me, I feel for you too — through my whole body, but it’s just not healthy anymore P.V. As much as I hate to say it, it’s got to stop.
We knew when we first met, that this was just going to be a short-​term fling — we are from two different worlds you and I — but you keep on holding on. I can only imagine what goes on when you’re away, but every time that you come back into my life, it’s like a whirlwind, turning things upside down and putting the world on hold. But as much as you mean to me, I’ve finally realized how heartless and cruel you really are. You are hurting people P.V. and I know that I’m not the only one.
So I’ve got to say, as much as I’ve grown to love you, this has got to end. We need to go back to our normal lives… before we destroy each other.
I really hate to end it this way, but you just don’t listen when I try to talk with you… because it’s all about you. How many places you’ve gone, how many people you have met, and how they just keep talking about you. Sure, I am the coolest I’ve ever been when I’m with you, but you live for the limelight, the Aurora dance around you like pixie dust. I get it. I’m really proud of all that you have accomplished coming from the middle of nowhere and making a real name for yourself, but it’s all gone to your head and I can’t take it anymore. Please understand what I’m saying… you have to let me go.
I will always remember this special time that we’ve spent together my love… no matter how cold and heartless you are, but I need warmth… and I can’t sacrifice any more of my own.

My Ice Queen by Dan Brown (courtesy of
)
She stands before me with icy stare,
I dare not breathe; do not dare.
For one cloud of breath toward Her Grace
may break an icicle from flawless face
Forced to my knees by daggers of ice,
my back they stab, and my wrists they slice.
She stands before me, regal and royal,
never content with Servants’ toil.
Snow-​dusted willows attack my skin,
the rule of my Queen will always win.
I say not a thing, for my words are strong,
to batter her beauty all day long.
Attack like a bull, and shatter to shards,
the Queen of Diamonds, with all the cards.
In her eyes hides longing gleam;
burning desire to run free as a stream.
A candle I’ll hold, like never seen;
an endless flame to melt my Queen.
Death of much; an affordable price,
in order to rescue my Queen of Ice.

Polar vortex sucks & y’all know it. I can’t feel my toes today & it’s tearing up the east coast all the way to NYC!
If there were a mantra or rain god we could pray to right now, I’d ask him or her (humbly of course) if he could draw back the frigid & return us to a bit of global heat!

I do not like cold. I especially do not like sub zero temperatures. I pray that this will be the one and only experience I have with it being this cold. It was dreadful. To make matters worse, the drivers in DC don’t know how to handle snow, rain, or in this matter… icy rain. Mother Nature can take her bipolar elsewhere. That, and her polar vortex too.

This is my first Polar Vortex and it’s WICKED COLD! This morning as i drive off in 6 degree weather, I could feel every knob, button, switch and joint in my car was struggling to move. I was afraid something would crack under the extreme cold.
I now have a new appreciation for heat, although too much or too little of something is usually not a good thing.
I can’t think of a better polar vortex I’d rather be in. It’s nice having the extra fridge and freezer space!
Funny story: it was so cold, a friend commented, «what is this… Alaska?» I checked the weather in Alaska and it was actually warmer there!!! LOL
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