Blog Love Omega Glee: It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) (7 December 2012)

It is dark when Masani wakes up, but in her head it's a beautiful sunrise.

Humming a Love Unlimited song in the shower, she steps out of the bathtub right into fresh cat vomit (Monique probably ate too quickly again). She just wipes it off her foot with some toilet paper and keeps humming.

After dressing, she walks downstairs and, like usual, Rudy dashes past her on the stairs and nearly trips her. Instead of cursing the cat, like usual, she delights in the piece of mint dental floss dangling out of the cat's behind as it runs down the stairs. Someone's been eating dental floss out of the bathroom trash can again apparently.

She turns on the radio and it's all war, terrorism, lying politicians, stupid business leaders, crime, obnoxious commercials disguised as public radio underwriting, and radio announcers sucking up to authority figures, all enough to make any reasonable person go back to sleep and hope to wake up again and find that this nightmarish world was nothing more than the dreamworld created by eating too much pizza the night before. Instead, Masani finds some hope in all the good things not on the airwaves.

She drives to work and her car makes a disturbing noise. She just works it into the rhythm of a remix of the song running through her head.

At work, everyone is crabby and complaining. Masani tunes them out and whistles while she works.

A patient screams at her on the telephone for something stupid one of the doctors did and Masani hears soothing ocean waves.

She heats up some hot water in the microwave for her afternoon tea and a nurse bumps into her while she carries it back to her desk and it all spills. The nurse doesn't apologize and tells Masani "to watch where she's going" even though the nurse was the one walking down the hallway reading a chart and not paying attention. Masani just smiles, says "God Bless," and gets some more water from the water fountain to start again.

After work, she brushes a half-foot of snow off her car and sees only the water that will eventually make pretty flowers.

On the road, drivers drive either too slow or too fast and Masani nearly gets in an accident several times due to the incompetence of other drivers and instead of getting so frustrated that she gives someone the finger, she just sings "It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)".

At home, Jake and Francine are fighting over her always having to work weekend nights, and instead of screaming she hears the soothing sounds of background vocal harmony. The slammed door just sounds like a well-hit snare drum.

When she checks the mail, she finds a letter from the water department explaining that they've just noticed that the house hasn't been billed for several years and are working on figuring out the bill, but they'll need her to go downtown to the office to sort things out, and Masani thinks that the lake near the office will be very pretty to see.

You see, last night Donald called to say he'll be home for Christmas.

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel.