Why I hate living in Wisconsin: My parental units went to the Dells (premiere tourist trap here) for a few days this week, leaving me alone. The temperature today and yesterday hovered around the negative four mark. In other words, it has been very, very cold up here. And what happened last night? The heat broke.

I didn't notice until this morning because I was holed up in my mom's room with a space heater.

My parentals returned this morning and got the heat fixed, but it is still freezing everywhere else in the house except for her room.

And tomorrow it's supposed to be about fourty below with windchill.

I. HATE. WINTER.

However, my mother bought me fuzzy (and supposedly moisturizing- yes, moisturizing) socks, so that helped my mood a little bit.

On the bright side, one week until the end of the semester. I will be technically taking more classes next semester, but I will no longer have my internship at the Press to deal with (a senior wants it) so that's about fifty pounds of stress gone right there.