Go Ahead And Laugh

I am cold.

Somewhere along the way, I got use to the southern climate and began to enjoy it. Now we have this unusual cold snap and I am hating it. Temperatures were close to forty today and at one time, that would have been a welcome sight on a January day. Now all I can think is, You've got to be kidding me.

Bring back the flip flops.

I'm making chicken and dumplings tonight for supper just to warm us up. Add that to a cozy fire, fleece blanket, and fuzzy socks, and I just might make it until time to crawl under my electric blanket set to "High". Unfortunately, come morning, it will start all over again.

This says the girl from Missouri. The girl who laughed at these southern women not so long ago for their long coats and scarves and boots when I was more than comfortable in a t-shirt and maybe a light jacket. We all laughed. Now we're all just cold.

And it's a sad state of mind when you can think of nothing else but how cold you are. I've got a paper to write on globalization and another on the fall of Rome, but all I care about at the moment is next week and warmer weather.

Maybe this is the Lord's way of making me appreciate where I'm at.
If so, I get it. We can get back to normal now.
So I can move on to something else.
Like the front porch swing.

So go ahead, my northern friends, and laugh. I know how pathetic this little ramble is. My dad was telling me about temps this morning in the negatives and single digits. I know where I come from.

The problem is my body has forgotten.