A 'lil HooHaa

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Winter is here (officially)

First day of winter

December 21.

The first day of winter.

And I am sitting here saying … wait, it’s December 21? Really?

I have so much to do in the next day and change that I don’t even know where I am. Well, I do. But at the same time, I have no clue.

Sheesh.

It has definitely felt like winter. And, at times, it’s looked like it, too. But when the snow comes, it’s followed by rain and warmer weather.

I’m really hoping for a white Christmas, though.

It’s been a couple of years since we had a legit white Christmas. It doesn’t feel right when there isn’t some Christmas snow … ala Frosty the Snowman.

So, we’ll see about that.

We’ve already had more snow this year than all of next year. What that means is … snow. But it’s ok. It had to happen.

It’s how it goes.

It is winter, after all.

And we close in on Christmas. Enjoy the cold!

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Make up our minds, Mother Nature!

The Christmas season is upon us, it seems.

Lights are popping up all over the place. People seem to be somewhat festive. The holiday music is all over, especially on two channels on SiriusXM.

Snow is again in the forecast in the coming days. That is not so fun.

I don’t mind a little snow, but I’d rather not be dumped on again. Especially during the week as it makes going to work not so fun. This weekend, there are plans, too, so the weather would be a total downer.

Alas, it’s part of living in the Northeast.

That being said, I do want to see snow on Christmas. The whole green Christmas thing is just not fun.

Last year was mild. This area set records for the lack of snow. I think we ended with like 19 inches – total. We might have that by the end of December!

So we’ll get some snow the next few days. Then it’ll be gone. And who knows what Christmas will bring.

Mother Nature needs to make up her mind, though! Damn her.

How’s the weather near you? Feeling like the holidays yet?

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Hot and cold … WTF?

I realize the human body is quite interesting as a whole – how it works, how it survives, how it grows etc.

But damn, the whole hot/cold this is odd.

Why is it we spend the hot months trying to be cold, and the cold months trying to be warm? I just want to be like “Hey … body, WTF?”

For those who know me, you know I like the cooler temps. In the middle of a hot summer, it’s often to the point in my car where you’ll need a sweatshirt because it’s an ice box.

Come the winter time, the ice box is outside. But, I don’t go full extreme and have an oven in the car.

I’m sure all of this has something to do with body temperature. And, to be fair, I did start reading about body temperature, but after a few sentences, it basically became this:

“Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah blah.”

You get the picture. A scientist I am not, that’s for sure.

These are the types of things that really help make life so interesting. As frosts set in during the mornings, I’ll have to start warming up my car. When I get in it’s all toasty and nice. It makes me smile. But, if it’s 95 degrees out and I get into my car and it’s hot as can be, I’m juicing the air conditioning hoping to make it feel like the South Pole!

The human body and mind work in mysterious ways, that’s for sure. How one thinks or acts, or even reacts, to situations and life conditions is pure amazement.

The seasons changing is no different.

We want cold when it’s warm, and warmth when it’s cold. It’s as simple as that.

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Nothing better than a summer cold… or not

Just a quick one today.

Summer colds truly suck.

Thankfully, it was planned for my vacation to go through today. Originally, I wa going to come home today, instead going straight through yesterday. It’s a good thing, too. Last night I took a shot of NYQUIL and slept well all night.

Today is the cough day, it seems.

That’s usually a good sign. Hopefully, this is like normal and I’ll be on the mend tomorrow. I’m on vacation all next week (another baseball trip) and really don’t want to be feeling like crap the whole time.

I had been pretty solid with getting sick this year. I made it through the winter pretty healthy. I’m firmly convinced this was brought on by the air conditioner at the first hotel I stayed in on this past trip.

The AC wasn’t fully controllable in that I couldn’t select a temperature and it was basically “cold or hot.” So I put it as low as possible. The issue was it ran all night and the room was tiny — so everything was pretty compact and close to one another.

It also probably didn’t help that I was in an area where it was super hot and humid the whole time, thus needing air conditioning.

Thankfully, I made it through the trip. But today, not so good. I am working the next several days, so hopefully I can make it through and be healthy for this upcoming trip, which will, again, have some hot and humid weather.

But colds during the summer? Totally suck.

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