We have low 20s and panic. We're supposed to get snow and/or freezing rain tonight and tomorrow. After last year's Snowpocalypse, the state is feverishly preparing. At least most of the schools were already out tomorrow.

I am actually out of bread, but do I want to face the bread-and-milk crowd?

Oh, great. Now my mom is freaking out about the cold on my facebook page. (This is after she freaked out about the flu going around campus a few days ago, and advised me to cancel my office hours and not let anyone get near me.)

I have no clue what the temperature is, I refuse to turn the TV on to find out. Probably because I am drinking Jilli's lovely Lady of the Manners tea and enjoying it a lot. I do like her Evil Bunny Alliance better, though. I have to say that they are a couple of the better blends I've gotten from Adagio. I tried Agent Carter Cake, yesterday, and think I found my soulmate. I didn't think I'd totally like a tea where the main flavor is coconut, but I wanted to try it because how could Agent Carter cake not be awesome? It was heavenly with raw sugar and a splash of half and half, it was light and airy, just like a good coconut cake.

I started coughing as soon as I woke up. I don't wake up coughing. I don't think I cough when I'm asleep so that can't be pertussis. And it seems weird that I don't wake up coughing. I feel like I'm some how faking this. Making myself be sick.

askye, it could be the change in your breathing when you wake. It could be that you are concerned or nervous about coughing when you are awake and not when you are sleeping. It could be any number of things, none of which are faking. I know when I get sick the cough lingers for weeks after other symptoms are gone. That's just how my body works. Just keep doing what you need to to alleviate the symptoms and cut yourself a little slack.

It's apparently a little colder here than it has been...but it's SUNNY out!! And it's supposed to be over 60 tomorrow and Tuesday. I think we're getting someone else's springtime, a few months early.

Somehow last weekend I got SO much done. This weekend, I have gotten nothing done. No laundry, no house projects....blahhhhh.

OK, thoughts--has anyone switched out their deadbolt to a keypad lock? SUPPOSEDLY I can do this myself. I'm hesitant to hire someone to do it when I know it'll take them 10 minutes, and I kinda figure OK, if I can do it in an hour or three, sure. But I"m also worried I"ll start, fail, adn then have to emergency call someone to fix it lest I have my door have no lock!

It could be any number of things, none of which are faking. I know when I get sick the cough lingers for weeks after other symptoms are gone.

askye, this. Both of these. When my asthma is acting up, I cough all the time, but not when I'm asleep. Sleeping, your body's relaxed, and the bronchial spasms that cause the cough relax also. (The trick, of course, is getting to sleep.) You're not faking it or making yourself cough.

OK, thoughts--has anyone switched out their deadbolt to a keypad lock? SUPPOSEDLY I can do this myself. I'm hesitant to hire someone to do it when I know it'll take them 10 minutes, and I kinda figure OK, if I can do it in an hour or three, sure. But I"m also worried I"ll start, fail, adn then have to emergency call someone to fix it lest I have my door have no lock!

meara, this is the sort of thing I call a professional for. Ten minutes and it's done and it's right. No stress, no cussing, no wasted hours. I don't mind spending time learning to do some house-maintenance thing that I'll need to know again, but changing a lock? Call a locksmith and save the time and stress. (My sister has the opposite mindset. She'd rather save money than time. This is probably why she's richer than me, but I'm a helluva lot calmer.)

It's 21 degrees here and going down to 7 tonight. Not the coldest on record here, but that is a contest I'm happy to lose. It won't be above freezing all week. What do the birds and wildlife do when all the water is frozen?

Rationally I know that, but this being sick for so long is just stirring up stuff and making me more anxious.

I'm also really sick of talking about this all the time.

So today I ... watched Spartacus Blood and Sand or SAnd and Blood or whatever the first season was. it went by fast because I had to fast forward through most of the blood and gore. But I might have lingered some on the naked men...I think the images had restorative powers.

Brrr-HOWDY! It's 15 but feels like -7.

Below the Mason/Dixon y'all. That just ain't right.

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