The Dreaded Feb

Here it is. 

The hard tar heart of winter.

 I am beating back a ruthless cold that seems bent on swooping in on me on this final week of the show. 

My exercise regimen has been nonexistent.

I am swamped and stressed at work and home.

The whole city's gone mad under a yard of snow. 

There's a leak in our bedroom ceiling. 

And to top it all off: 

It's F*cking February. 

I. 

Hate. 

February. 

Every year, this horrible excuse of a month rears up on its haunches from the seventh level of hell and descends like a frigid gray vulture, scavenging the last remaining shreds of potable joy in its thirteen gaping maws.

It is a bane on all chronological methods, an abomination that grows a slimy mewling 29th head every four years. 

Even children from the earliest of ages flail in a frustrative rage at the incomprehensible spelling and pronunciation of this poisonous stain on all the world's calendars.

And at its grubby little heart, exactly halfway into the relentless tumult, is the worst holiday imaginable. Born in a flurry of red schmaltz and impossible expectations, V-Day encapsulates all that is wrong with human romantic relationships and carries with it the weight and worth of a sewage tank.

February's singular saving grace is the movie Groundhogs Day, but only because it's an accurate account on how to endure the perpetual hell-scape that is February.

My hatred for this god-forsaken month will outlive the gradual heat death of the universe.

*******

Spit up that vitriol brother.

Stuff to maybe do once a day when I feel like it:

1. Dance (at least a song's worth)
2. Speak (something that's been written by yourself or a friend)
3. Write (a garble, a line, a poem, a feeling)
4. Find a simple task and make it as difficult as possible with your physicality
5. Come up with a personal question and ask it

Haiku of the Day:

Loose intimacy
with inanimate objects
doesn't make you friends

Today's Drawing and "365" Project (inspired by the word "Ex parte" from MW's word of the day and bicycle parts from the Project book. Ex parte's a legal term meaning from one side of an issue or party.)