So much for Michigan

I love winter. It is my favorite season. Cozy sweaters, hot chocolate, sparkly snow, sledding, a fire in the fireplace. I love trudging through 2 feet of snow to get to class, I love wearing a huge coat with matching gloves/scarf/hat set. I love it when your wet hair freezes by the time you get to class, or when you can't get your ID out of your pocket to get into a building because your fingers are numb. I love watching the snow fall outside the window, snuggling up under a mound of blankets. I love when the sun makes the snow into a million tiny diamonds that sparkle and glitter all day. I love having the excuse of "I couldn't dig myself out" to get me out of stuff I need to drive to.
Winter has apparently decided to take a vacation this year. I thought we had global warming beat with the weather here in November, it was super cold with tons of snow. But then when winter was supposed to be getting into full gear, when you start making jokes about not being warm until July, and not seeing the grass until June and all that, it melted. No snow. Warm temperatures. Rain. Can you believe it? Rain. In December. And then more in January. Instead of my winter wonderland, snow sparkling under the frozen sun, I have crap-ville. The ground is all muddy and yucky, the grass is dead but not really gone, the sky is all poopy looking, the wind can't decide whether to be cold or to be warm. I'm stubbornly wearing my down jacket still, though it was 55 degrees with blinding sunshine today. Not a cloud in the sky. That's like 60 degrees higher than it should be right now.
Why am I going to school in Michigan if it's not even going to snow? I might as well be in California waiting to fall into the ocean.