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! 

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[naomikritzer]

My mother had heard of chilblains only in Victorian novels until we went to the UK and my piano teacher suggested that was what was giving my sister so much discomfort and handed off some sort of soaking salts or cream. People in the UK in the 1980s viewed them as a routine problem that people ordinarily had and there were lots of products out there that were supposed to be helpful, much like in Minnesota you'll see a billion products for chapped lips that are varying degrees of helpful or not.

We got back to the US and Abi could find NONE of these products, some of which had been super helpful, until about 15 years ago when they started showing up again.