Snow

What is snow, exactly? Why are we so concerned and so fascinated with snow? As a lot of us sit contemplating nothing else other than how the snow is affecting our busy holiday rush schedules, we might want to relax and try to enjoy the benefits of slowing down that this snowfall is giving all of us, instead.

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A lot of snow fell recently, it stopped a lot of traffic. It might be a wise idea to think twice prior to doing extra shopping or outings just to make up for the loss of travel time prior to Christmas, that is, unless you work in retail and have some “must do” assignments.

The snowfall benefitted those working for the state or local highway departments, giving many of the workers therein extra hours, and thus, extra pay.

I’m sitting myself in front of a computer, and am able to weed out lesser photo candidates, then post worthy photos to this, my portfolio online. If there had been no snow, I probably would be out and about like everyone else. However, the blessing of snow is causing me to work on things that are online and everywhere, like a good telecommuter should be doing.

This is the time to kick back and leave the grocery shopping to the delivery people, or get gift cards for people when going to the supermarket, or to create handmade gifts like the pinata.

I know, it sounds crazy to a lot of people, like who would want to receive a pinata in the shape of a stocking for Christmas? Excuse me, I know that I sure would. Making a papier-mache project requires only a few days of indoor storage to make properly, and to dry properly. The only materials needed are newspaper, flour, water, as well as time to allow the project to dry.

Then, of course, there is the candy that usually goes inside of the pinata, or the paint or the magazine cutouts or the tissue paper or the gift wrap used to make the pinata look nice. That’s something that we could do during a snowfall, and then, dear telecommuters, we could send the idea back to Mexico, where factory workers could translate the whole project into Spanish, create more accurate and calibrated directions, and then outsource the project to various factories throughout Latin America.

Studying Spanish is something that a person might enjoy doing during a snowfall, being given the opportunity to visit areas within the United States such as certain areas of states like North Carolina, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New Mexico, and California where having a 12 grade reading level in the Spanish language as well as the English language is not mandatory, as long as one is willing to work in a restaurant or get a master’s degree.

Then, there’s this book called the Bible, which sort of relates to Christmas. There are four books in the New Testament, four chapters, called the Gospel, which relate the story of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, who the story of Christmas is purportedly the beginning of the life story of. Christianity and the Bible might have at least as much to do with the spirit of the holiday as running around in galoshes or cowboy boots to get to the SUV in order to do mall-crawling or outlet shopping.