My alarm clock goes off...it's 7:30am and the sun is already shining into my room..not a cloud in the sky...I look in my closet and I eye that pretty camisole I bought last year..but wait a minute, it's only 5 degrees Celsius(about 42 degrees Farenheit?) outside!  I have Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" in my head: "Spring is the mischief in me".  The sunny weather is deceiving--it makes me want to ditch the wool coat and cashmere scarf in favour of a floral skirt and a halter top.  I turn on the tv and Clueless is on.  Cher and her friends are all wearing pretty slip dresses.  I simply can't do this; I live in Vancouver and it's 5 degrees Celsius outside.

I think to myself how it's going to get warmer in the afternoon.  But then I see the leafless branches sway in the wind.  No...much too cold.  I also want to wear sandals.  I want to show my toes.  I'm tired of wearing loafers, and scotchguarded suede boots.  I want to wear wedges...strappy sandals.  I want to go to down to Jericho beach...where I can take off my shoes, roll up my shorts and walk out as far as I can in the cool water because the tide is so low.  I want to be able to tie up my hair in a ponytail without worrying that my ears will freeze.  But then it's only 5 degrees Celsius outside.

I've bought two sleeveless tops this winter: one a mock turtleneck, and the other a thick striped cowl neck in the perfect colours for this season.  I bought them because they look more than fabulous on me.  But then I only wore them on a couple of occasions; I get stares when I take off my wool coat because I am wearing a sleeveless top in the middle of winter...in Vancouver.

Trenchcoats are hot this Spring.  They're great for cold and wet weather and I like the practicality of it so I tried one on, and I realized that I didn't look good in them at all.  The immense bulkiness of the trenchcoat I tried on did not flatter my petite figure.  "Spring is the mischief in me".  I don't want to wear trenchcoats anyway.  I want to wear skirts in lightweight fabrics that flow...I want to wear pretty girly dresses and camisoles.  I put on a pair of my favourite jeans and a camisole, with a cardigan on top.  If it gets hot I can take off the cardigan, but then this is only wishful thinking because it's only 5 degrees Celsius outside and the weatherman said it will probably only go up to 10.  Oh well, at least it's not raining outside.