Thoughts from Deep Freeze

First off, it's not a good sign that when the temperature gets up to 24, and the wind is only blowing a little bit, that you think to yourself "its actually not that cold today." Or maybe it is a good sign. I've found the perfect combination of layers to keep warm in the 20, 10, 0 and below degree categories. For the coldest temperatures it goes like this.

Bottom To Top:
2 Pairs of Socks (one long pair, one short pair)
legwarmers
long unders
stretchy yoga pants (the ones you wore for pj's Lil Sis)
jeans
tank top
long under shirt
long sleeve t-shirt
sweatshirt (for below zero weather only - or when walking the dog at night and it seems cold)
flowery patagonia vest
hooded sweatshirt
fleece coat
arctryx coat
fleece lined hat

Also, when it got real cold and windy with a wind chill of -10 I was reminded of going outside in the cold when I was little and having my boogers freeze in my nose. That's always fun. Like when your mom bundles you up and makes you walk all the way to school, but then you get there and not enough kids show up so school is closed. So you walk back, have some hot chocolate, and then go out and sled for the rest of the day. Not that it was -10 when that happened, but I'm pretty sure my boogers froze.

The other day I went to the dog run with Shelby and when she was running around playing fetch, she looked like a dragon. Or maybe like she was steam powered because you could see her breath puff out of her muzzle while she was chasing the ball around. I think it made her run faster.

The cold has been the top story on the news for a week or so, hence the "Deep Freeze." I think that name may be trademarked by FoxNews. At the very least they have created a pretty nifty graphic. It's funny that they have news stories every single night about the "Deep Freeze" and the most help the news can be is to tell everyone to wear a hat and layers. They did have one story about the Warming Centers the City of New York set up in case you don't have heat. But they never mentioned the addresses of these places, just told you to go the the Fox Website to find them. I thought it was pretty F'd up that they would use important information that freezing old and poor people could really use as a traffic driver for their website. Thats Fox for you though I guess.

Im on my way back out in the cold. I gotta add a couple of layers first though.

My First Segway

Today I say a guy who actually used a Segway to get around. He was waiting for the N Train, but I wish I could have seen him zooming around running errands instead.

Reflection of a big fat sleepy security guard.

Christmas Dinner

We at a lot at Christmas dinner. A lot. Lil' Sis cooked a delicious Christmas breakfast of scrambled eggs, french toast and an entire package of bacon (I think we ate most of it - Shelby got the leftover bacon and the leftover bacon fat on accident) but I forgot to take a picture. I also got some bacon cooking instructions since I've never cooked my own. I was told that my Ma can tell when bacon is done by listening to it, which is the sign of a good cook if you ask me.

We didn't eat our dinner until really late at night, around 10. Everything turned out real good, especially since the gravy turned out to be delicious (I mostly happy that at least it was edible - unlike my past two tries at turkey gravy.) It could have been a little more "chickeny" but I'll work on that next time.