Things I Hate

[lydy]

On my rather extensive list of things I hate, right at the top are being cold and heavy physical activity.  Guess where snow removal falls on my list of hated activities.  

Pamela did some shoveling yesterday, and David and I did a bunch of snow-blowing and shoveling today.  And it's snowed at least three inches since then, plus a lot of blowing and drifting.  So it's all to be done again.

I am not going to do more today. But tomorrow, I will probably have to get out the snowblower again.  WTF, April.

Even though I dress appropriately, in layers, if I spend much time outside, when I come inside my legs, especially my thighs, develop cherry red and fish-belly white splotches.  Sometimes big splotches, sometimes little ones that look like a rash.  After a while, they start to itch.  Sometimes, this also happens to my face.  I find that if I get into a hot bath as quickly as possible, that deals with the problems, and I usually don't get the itches.  I have no idea what causes this.

I am so done with winter I could scream.  So much snow! 

Comments

[lydy]

I have seen the Twitter thread, and it is just lovely. Always had a soft spot for Persephone.

Failed evolutionary response, that's me. For most of my life, my internal thermostat has been wonky. I get chilled and stay that way for hours, get hot for no good reason. I used to be prone to nap attacks presaged by an uncontrollable chill. Haven't had that happen in a while. And all this was well before menopause -- which I presume I am engaging in or am past.

I think you win the Terrible Weather Sweepstakes. It is supposed to snow here again on Wednesday. Why, April, why?

[graydon]

The east-west temperate air circulation of the northern hemisphere which has pertained for the entirety of human civilization (even if that runs back thirty thousand years on the now-drowned tropical continental shelves...) is being replaced by a north-south wind pattern as the hemispheric climate zones shift from tropical, temperate, arctic to tropical, not-tropical.

That might not be why this particular weather system is happening, but as a thing, that's what's happening.

(I do realize that was probably a rhetorical question.)

Power didn't go out. Still precipitating away out there; roads looking clear. My chunk of sidewalk is currently a reproach.