chattering teeth

[saavedra77]

OK, It helps to bear in mind that stuff could always be worse: I spent last week's wind storm safely ensconced in a reinforced-concrete apartment building on high ground, and suffered no power outages. No trees fell on me. I didn't have to land at SeaTac while the wind was whipping around the airport at 70 miles an hour. At no point was I in danger of, say, drowning. So let's keep this in perspective.

Hell, I had it worse a dozen or more years ago, when I lived in an unheated walk-in closet in New England, and woke up to find a thin layer of ice floating on top of the waterglass I'd left on the windowsill.

But, dude, neither my apartment nor my body are succeeding in holding in the heat when it's literally freezing outside. That invitation to visit my half-sister's half-sister in Miami is sounding better and better ...

Comments

[drglam]

Here in New England? It's 50 degrees. At 1 AM.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Alright, now I feel downright cheated ...! :)

[pescana.livejournal.com]

You too? Damn, that's too many people I know without power, including me. I hope we both get it back soon!

[drglam]

It's raining too. We're totally having your weather.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

No, not me, actually: I have power, just an ineffectual heater and poor window insulation. Much as this makes me want to grumble, I'm a lot more worried about you and spoomeister and pinky_ki and everyone else who's been affected by the storms--you've all got a lot more to complain about!

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Glad you're sort-of okay at least!

Our local litany goes something like this:

I'm not dead!
And I'm not currently on fire!
Or being bitten on the face by a poisonous snake!

Although being on fire may sound not so bad right about now.