Oh gloomy winter.  I really couldn't be more sick of it.  With it seem to freeze all my dreams and ambitions.  It could possibly account somewhat for my lack of desire to socialize or attend to my typical hobbies.  What if winter were strictly regulated and only permitted to occur 12 days out of the year rather than half the whole year?  They could be planned holidays so all the kids could get out of the school and play in the snow all day, make snowmen, etc.  And then the snow could stay in the ski resorts all year but never on the public roads and never on the windshields.  Then I'm sure we'd all love winter.  No gray skies that seem to last so dreadfully long, no icy killing cold weather every day- the climate can be cooler but the sun would still shine... *sigh... if only if only.