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Marotta: Remember spring is just 40 days away
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Here are 10 good ways to survive the rest of this winter:
1.) Use foul-weather footgear that makes you smile. Last year I found boots the exact color of a peppermint-stick sundae, trimmed in a matching fur that looked like your extra ice cream spilling over the top of the sundae glass. I bought them on the spot and what do I care if they were made for a fourth grade girl? I smile each time I put them on.
2.) Buy a bouquet of flowers next time you're at the supermarket which you can find room in the food-budget for by:
(a) Choosing them from the reduced-price bin, knowing they will last about as long as the newer bouquets because hey, they're cut flowers; they're already dead. What you are is present at the funeral.
(b) Resisting the urge to even steer that carriage down the Quickie Meal aisle, where you're paying five or six times as much for ingredients you already have. You want mac and cheese to feed a houseful? Boil up and drain those little elbows, mix half a cup of flour with a stick of butter in a saucepan and add two cups of milk, whisking 'til smoothly molten. Toss in two cups of cheese cut any old way since the hot stuff will melt it, pour the whole thing over the hot pasta, dust with flavored bread crumbs and bake until nicely browned.
3.) While you're there in the store's Floral Section, buy a little houseplant and put it by a window to counter the bleakness beyond. I recommend the pothos plant, cheap, cheerily green-and-white and all but unkillable.
4.) Speaking of plants, Try BEING a plant and turn toward the sun. In fact every time you find a puddle of sunlight get yourself in the middle of it and feel your whole body rejoicing as it soaks in the Vitamin D.
5.) If you have cable, spend some time with the ever-mesmerizing Weather Channel. A reader-pal has suggested this to me as a cure for insomnia too. Just try staying awake for the next Weather on the 8's she says.
6.) Forget cable and just tune in to Public Television, which has the same calming effect - provided you steer clear of Antiques Road Show and any Fund Drives where money talk will break the spell.
7.) Forget the TV entirely and turn on the radio. Find a station broadcasting in a foreign language and do your best to puzzle out what they're saying.
8.) Forget the radio and spend the evening singing. Gather other members of the household or call a friend and do it on the phone. Make it a contest with special prizes for all second verses remembered and sung correctly.
9.) If you get sick, especially in the vivid way so popular this winter, take comfort in the little things, like the pattern of the bedroom wallpaper, or the way the bathroom radiator looks when seen from the bathroom floor. Just last weekend during my own camp-out on the bathroom floor my cat came and joined me, recognizing at once the cozy nest I was curled up inside. I had a bathmat and a blanket, a pillow and a heartbeat. She settled right in beside me like my own private-duty nurse.
And finally,
10.) When you've recovered, offer the same kind of company to others who are sick. Bring flowers, or mac-and-cheese to feed a houseful, or just sit with them as a little animal would do and work on telling yourselves together: Just 40 more days until spring! Just 40 more days until spring!
Write Terry at tmarotta@comcast.net or c/o Ravenscroft Press, Box 270 Winchester MA 01890.
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