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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

Freeze-your-butt-off cold.

[pamwax.livejournal.com]

Poor Meri and all of you Yankees. I watched the news and it made me shiver. I hesitate to tell my northern friends what the temp is here...so I guess I won't, but I am sending keep warm thought to you all. Be careful and don't turn into a Popsicle. BTW...I think the Blue mask is going to be my favorite unless you do a purple one.

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

You live there because that's where your house is.

See how often these simple solutions elude us?

(And I can make snarky comments because it's just as cold here. And I like it.)

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was -34 C when I woke up. THat's about -30 F. Meh, I don't care. If you dress properly with layers and scarves and hats and so on, it doesn't feel any colder than any other day. Actually I was out yesterday in a mesh lace shirt with my coat all the way open and I didn't feel a bit cold...only my hands were suffering, and they ALWAYS freeze because they're so damn thin. (Only part of me that is!) I didn't feel particularly cold at all. Weirdly, it's INSIDE that I get all frozen...

How are the new mask designs coming along? Oh, I left a few more (seriously, I'm quite into the idea of a gothic line, or maybe a Victorian line) on your...was it two entries ago? Anyway it was after everyone else had already commented so it came late and you said LJ was screwing up a lot lately so you might not have gotten the notification for the comment, so if you didn't, yep...ended up leaving another blort of 'ooh, this'd be cool!' suggestions two entries ago or so. THe lace and the poison apple and so on.

God, if I could draw! If I could draw...wow, that would open my possibilities up hugely. I'd come up with so many weird things...

[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.

come on down!

[musingnmeandering.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Its a balmy 50 degrees right here, right now. Sorry... I like cold and we don't get enough of it here. Then again, I've only once lived thru a really cold northern winter (in Ottawa, Canada), so... the cold is always a "novelty" to me. Something to get excited about. I'm sorry you feel you look ridiculous. I bet your really look kinda cute and cuddly. :)

[pamwax.livejournal.com]

Love the picture "Walken in a ..... Too Funny. You need to move here in the winter. Not much to do but not that cold either.

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

I know...how awful is this???? Stupid Arctic weather pattern.

[(Anonymous)]

Not quite so cold in Tokyo but I know where you are coming from. I put on several extra layers internally when I go skiing. All those hotel buffets make it quite easy in fact...

Just as long as your fingers are warm enough to work, you'll be fine and chipper! I am being inspired by you and working like a little busy bee.