Prepare for winter? How?

I tend to dress differently during the winter than during the summer, as well as need to be sure I can dig out my car, and chip the ice off, and make sure I have AAA membership paid up. It's no coincidence I re-up in January even now. Because I'm too lame to have done it as prep, and did it reactively instead of pro-actively.

But mostly, I need to be mentally prepared to be bone chilled and intermittently wet with cold water, and that can take a month to even get ready for.

...sorry, there was a Hunger Games trailer and I got distracted...where was I?

Right, yeah, the boots come out, the swimsuits go away. And the brains makes its switches

This year, oddly, we seem to have been basically winter-free (I think March is late enough that I can say that without jinxing it)

Turns out sometimes the Starks are wrong.

Yeah, but the thing is you *have* to prepare for the winter, every fucking year. The thought makes me want to cry.

Oh, believe me, I don't want to live in blizzard country either. But if my house were hit by a tornado twice in two years, I'd be seriously considering moving somewhere with the kind of natural disasters I could hunker down and survive with my possessions intact.

Actually, that's one reason I like living here. We don't get so much in the way of natural disasters: we had a blizzard a couple years ago but winters are normally mild; we had a tiny freak earthquake last year; and every couple summers there's a tiny tornado that blows some shit around. Summers are hot and humid, which sucks, but is less disaster than inconvenience.

I think March is late enough that I can say that without jinxing it)

Well, crap. Now we're gonna get a late March blizzard, aren't we????

Plei, they make those dildos you were wondering about. Just holler if you want more information, and DON'T ASK why I know.

I probably don't want to know what kind of dildos, do I?

Now we're gonna get a late March blizzard, aren't we????

Junior year of high school, a friend and I were laying out in her backyard the last weekend of March, 70 degrees and sunny, and we got a blizzard that closed school the following week. On my birthday, no less, in April.

Winter is sometimes tricksy.

Winter is sometimes tricksy.

Yes it is. We had a bad blizzard one April when we lived in Denver. If we get one now, I'm totally blaming Debet.

I think, at that point, it's a freak Spring Blizzard, and does not count as winter.

t shouts to Universe It wouldn't count. It's too late already.

I like winter. Not hat ive had much time to test that this year.

Middling success with the Top Chef caliber raw dog food. She is eating it from the bowl; gingerly and with many back and forths. But if I turn my back for a second she is standing behind be whimpering and the cat is firmly ensconced at the bowl.

I probably don't want to know what kind of dildos, do I?

I must admit I am curious, but I suspect I'll regret it.