Ice

The skating rink at Millennium Park opens in just two days.
I'm excited.

The ice rink is just across the street from my workplace so I keep a pair of hockey skates in my office. (I'm a disaster on figure skates but for some strange reason, I can be a little ice-bat on hockey skates. It's not very pretty or graceful, but I enjoy it.) With skates in my office, I can buzz out there right after work or also during my lunch break when I feel the need.

Each year, I keep a special "skate" playlist of music on my iPod. Usually, it's a combination of slow, languid music alternating with hard, fast rock; An oboe adagio followed by Heart's Barracuda.

This year, it's simply Handel's Messiah and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

What more would anyone need?

I love Winter . . .