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[merimask]

Brrrr!  Okay, I know this is hardly original since practically everyone on my f-list is saying the same thing, but it is COLD out there today.

Seriously...so cold.   Freeze-your-butt-off cold.  I'm wearing two sweaters and a scarf and a pair of wool socks and I'm only just reaching a state where I have ceased to shiver.   I look ridiculous. 

Also I am compelled to eat BAD things, like macaroni & cheese.   I sat here fighting the urge for like, an hour...until I finally got up & made some awful Kraft Macaroni & Cheese from a box.  It was delicious, and I have to wonder why since I normally HATE the stuff.  I'm certain it's the animal part of my brain telling me to eat fatty salty cheesy awful carbs because I might DIE if I don't.  Right now, my lizard brain says the perfect follow-up to a huge bowl of awful Kraft Macaroni & Cheese would be a big fat mug of hot chocolate.  I'm telling it to shut the hell up. 

It's not exactly snowing outside...I don't know what to call it.  It's as if all the moisture in the air is freezing & falling, but it's not really snow.  There are no real clouds (in fact the sun is shining in a flat silvery not-warm way)...there's just this frozen mist sifting down lightly.  It looks like powdered laundry detergent.

Days like this, I don't know why the heck I live here.  

Comments

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

Because come summer you will be loving it again where you are where the US south will melting under heat and humidity? Because it's too expensive to move to the West coast and anyway you'd rather deal with cold than earthquakes? *Grin*

It's bitterly cold here, too. I know that there are places where it gets even colder--that doesn't make me feel any warmer. Even my husband, who likes cold temperatures, found it bitterly cold yesterday--then again, he was in the field checking out equipment on the roof of the job site.

I always eat more when I'm cold, even though I'm not as active so I shouldn't really need more calories. But food--especially warm, filling foods--always sound really good.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

True...when you look at the big picture, in the Spring/Summer/Fall you really can't beat this area. It's lovely.

It's just November through March really, really sucks. Five months of misery. If I was a bird I'd just fly away.

I have to avoid the bad food! I definitely eat badly when it gets this cold. I'm like a bear.