17 November 2011

Why cold is great

It's getting cold outside.  I checked the weather this morning and it showed that it was twenty degrees, but felt like it was ten.  It's an exciting time.  I think that I have always enjoyed the cold.  I know that as an adult, I prefer the cold to warm or hot weather.  With cold weather, you can bundle up.  Put on a heavy coat, a scarf, gloves, hat, etc.  When it starts to get hot outside, you just walk around in shorts and short sleeve shirts.  There is no way to walk around with a portable A/C unit in your pocket (or is there.....).

One thing that I have noticed in the early mornings when it is cold outside is that everything just sounds different.  It's quiet but there is something weird about the quietness.  I can't really explain it, but everything is just that, different.  There's something in the air when it is cold outside and I love every second of it.

I love putting on a heavy coat, a wool hat and scarf.  I love having just a little slit to look through in between the hat and scarf.  Just that little bit that reminds me of a cartoon character that gets shooed out the door by their mom as they have to walk to school in a blizzard.

The one thing above all else is that makes it great when it is cold outside is being in your own house and kicking back in a pair of sweatpants and a hooded sweatshirt.  It's great coming home from a long day of work and relaxing on a couch with your favorite sweats and grabbing a beer or a scotch and putting your feet up in your slippers and just letting it all go.  

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