Adaptations- A.K.A You know you're Minnesotan when....

Ah, yes. Minnesota. The lovely, frigidly cold, sometimes bipolar, always unique.. The place i call home. The place that i've gotten used to. I've adapted to. And yes, i've read this list, and cringed. More than once. But... You know you're Minnesotan when...

-you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping the food will swim by. (oh, the joys of ice fishing.) 
-you keep the snow tires on your truck all year because it ain't worth taking them off for only two months. (include chains in that.) 

-you have ever refused to buy something because it's too "spendy." (omg, mom?!)

-you like to come in out of the sun when the temperature gets above 72. (Kriewall's pond, anyone?)
-your local Dairy Queen is closed from December through February.(who needs icecream when you walk out your door and you have a snow pile?) 
-you instinctively walk like a penguin for three months out of the year. (Or like, seven.) 
-someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there. (this is so my family.)
-your Dad's sun tan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead. (omg, dad?!) 
-you have ever apologized to a telemarketer. (Minnesota nice. Yeah, that's right, we're so gangster.)
-you believe the only REAL vehicles have skis in front and a loud motor under your seat. (Jensen winterfest!)
-you have a nickname for your chain saw and you pat it on the fuel tank at the end of a hard day's sawing. (I think my dad named his betty. Just a thought. I call the big one Joey.)
-you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk. (and you can make it. omg, grandma?!)
-you beam with pride when some King or Hollywood super star comes to the Mayo Clinic to save their lives.
-you have no "spring" sports season. (wait, what's spring?)
-you have ever worn shorts and a parka at the same time (omg, theron?! Happy birthday, btw!)
-you know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, and Shakopee.
-you think that ketchup is a little too spicy. (omg, tom?!)
-you support the preservation of forests, farmland and wetlands because that's where you hunt deer, pheasants and geese.(omg, jesse, casey, dan?!)
 -every January, from age 2 to 13, you let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post(Allison, Ben, Abe, Bennet, Grant, Nate? >:( Oh, Chad, you're just as bad!)
-you believe human beings must all go through a frozen dormant period for four months every year.
-you consider Lime Jell-O a highly versatile food: a breakfast dish when it is filled with fruit, a salad when it has shredded carrots and a dab of mayonnaise, and a dessert when topped with dreamwhip. (omg, old church ladies?!)
-you always believed that vacation meant "going up north." (wait, where does everybody else go?!) 
-the temperature in March is above freezing for three days in a row, and you think it's summer. (Kriewall's pond? Really? No takers? Your loss!)
-you laugh out loud every time you see a news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast. (whimps.)
-you think that "UFF DA" is a standard English phrase. (grace and i saw a car that had this on it. Epicness.) 
-your favorite sport when it's cold outside is played where it's cold inside. (Renee, I CALL THE HURLEY!)
-you thank God every morning for not making you an Iowan. (marcus?(: Hi!) 
-you believe that bitter cold, a slippery surface and speed go together in a sport and on the Interstate.
(when riding with my mom, it's like a Valley Fair ride!)
-you measure distance in minutes.(How much longer?! Fifteen minutes, shut your trap hole! Oh grandpa, how we love you, you prickly fish tank you!)-you know several people who have hit a deer.(and than take it to nicks. Yumm, deer meet!)-your school classes were canceled because of cold.(Best. Days. Ever.)-you've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.(It's a time honored cycle. Go to school, heat. Go to soccer, a/c. Go home, heat.)-you know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July. (And you can tell, by a glance, how long the harvest is going to take.)-you carry jumper cables in your car.(and know how to use them.)-you know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.(wait, what do other kids do for fun?)-you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.(And it's for a reason!)
-you find -20 degrees F "a little chilly". (Ah, maybe we should turn the heat on now... I'm not sure..)-you know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.(great grandpa had a plaque that said this. Cracked me up on a daily basis.)

So we adapt to what environment we live in. But, for the love of high school, i can't figure out why anyone wants to live here.

<3 Taylor Elaine