It’s been record-breaking, bone-chilling COLD outside in our area. I am not a fan of the cold. I prefer to be warm, but here I am in the Pacific Northwest and I am dealing. Plus, there’s significantly less fat on my body this year, thus I feel the cold more. The outdoor thermometer dips down into the low 20s or even teens at night, and I don’t think it has pushed the 30 degree mark in about 5 days. The last time I was out of the house, other than today, was Monday night.
I went to Weight Watchers Monday night and did well – nearly lost that two pounds again that I keep losing and then taking back. Dangit. I’ve been tracking really well this week and trying to make some good choices, but it is too dang cold outside for me to do my usual exercise. I am wondering how I’ll fare in the 12k run I’m signed up for in just 2 weeks. I certainly am unprepared for this one.
Today, I took a break mid-day from work and walked (partially ran, if you believe that, but it’s true) up to the local waterfall that is at the entrance of a subdivision. It’s about .6 miles from my house. The waterfall has frozen over. Pretty trippy too. It was so cold out there that it was all I could manage to get there and back. But I did, and my leg muscles thank me. I just do not have the proper clothing for the bitter cold.
Tonight, I’m actually going to try to sit at the sewing machine and make something. I will probably prepare the pattern for my Christmas dress and hope that I could finish it in time for a party I’m supposed to go to Saturday afternoon. We’ll see. If not, it will become my Christmas 2010 dress. You think I’m kidding. 
I have a whole list of things to sew for gifts and I haven’t started one of them because I’m plain exhausted. I don’t know if it’s because of the cold, because of everything on my plate, or my fibromyalgia. Regardless, it seems like lifting lead legs to get myself into my sewing room, even though in my head that’s the first thing I want to do – all the time.
Speaking of fun things, we just finished getting my daughter’s baby shower invites made and in the mail, or hand delivered. Each one was quite the process and were individually hand-made, hand-stamped, and hand-written. It took the two of us, plus an occasional helper, several days to get this done – something I thought would only take an afternoon. Boy, did I underestimate what my daughter had in mind for her invites. She’s a real-live Tinkerbell, so the theme is, of course, Tinkerbell. The shower is early January, and considering the holidays, I don’t think we got these out too soon.
Okay, bloggy friends, I’d better get off the computer. I know that’s the first step toward the sewing room or getting anything done. Stay warm if it’s cold where you are, and if it’s summer in your neck of the woods, stay cool!
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I always enjoy your blog. You manage to inform and entertain at the same
time; always in a very “Readers Digest” kind of way! (That’s a compliment!)
What an adorable invitation…you’ve got to frame one of those for the baby’s
room!
It’s going to be 18 here in Pa. tonight!
Thanks, Joanne! We will definitely be framing one of those invites. They are so cute. We bought out all the Joanns around here looking for those Tinkerbell chipboard thingies. They were 40% off, which was great, or I’d be asking Salvation Army for a handout.
The card is really cute!! It is so much fun to plan a baby shower.
I am like you and do not like to be too cold-though I live in Wisconsin and we just got 18″ of snow a couple of days ago and the highs are single digits for the next couple of days. It definitely looks like Christmas!
Hi Julie! I was just telling my daughter about how my dad (her grandfather) was born and raised in Marinette, WI, and used to tell me stories of driving out on the lake and spinning donuts. He’s passed on now, so I’ll never know if that was true or not, or if my memory of the story is faulty. I do know he used to skate on the lakes and I’ve got some lovely photos of winters up in that area. Gorgeous!
Here in my part of PA we started at around 18 and ended up with a tropical heat wave of 28! I’m sure your dad was telling the truth about spinning cookies on the lake. People did that all the time where I grew up. Cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles–you’d see them all out on the lake as soon as the ice was thick enough.
Your invitations are wonderful, and I can’t begin to imagine what the shower itself will be like.
It’s looking like we may even get some snow this weekend, Laura. I’ll keep you guys posted on the actual shower!
just looking at those photos makes me cold. brrrr
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