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[romyra]

Or New York as people like to call it. Okay so I woke up on December 22nd 2008 freezing my ass off....seriously it was 20 degrees fahrenheit which is below freezing on the celsius counter. I checked and it was -6 degrees celsius. Plus there was a wind chill today that numbed all extremities. So I was COLD. The minute I stepped outdoors I wanted to run back inside and huddle under the covers which a giant mug of warm tea, but there was shopping to do. We got a 10.45 train and made it to Penn Station from there we checked out Webbers, Jack's and then went to the Manhattan mall where we browsed and eventually stopped in Strawberry and Wetcool. I had to buy a hat as my head was starting to get numb. When we checked the time it was 3 pm and we had to race back to the station as we wanted to get out before peak time. We were lucky to get to a local train that was just boarding and we made it back around 5pm.

People I love Auntie Annie's pretzels especially the Cinnamon Sugar. The raisin was pretty good as well.

Today we went to K-Mart and bought a few last minute items. I helped clean out the basement to put some stuff in storage and then I helped wrap some gifts. I have no idea what I did but my lower back hurts like hell. I am so stiff and my mobility is strained but hopefully I can work it out. No advancement on the exercise plan as I just cannot get on that walker. Its on the front porch which is just before the cold breeze but dread it is just so cold. I have no idea how I'm going to deal with the so called "dead of winter" come January.

Comments

Symps...

[alestrel.livejournal.com]

But bemused symps, only because I hardly ever feel cold. -6 is a tad below average for an English winter, but not too much, and the wind chill here usually makes it feel a lot colder, and I'm out in it in a T-shirt, thin leggings, a tatty, threadbare old fleece and trainers with no head covering or gloves, and I'm hot. What you've described sounds like great winter weather to me!

On the other hand, the temperature gets much above 21 - 22 degrees, and I feel like I'm melting... I swear I was Inuit in a previous life. Though that being said, the UK tends to be cool and often damp, so natives grow up used to it. I know I deal with the cold far better than I do the heat.

Isn't variety wonderful?

Hope the back clears up very quickly.

Wishing you the most joyous of Yuletides, and a solid, positive start to 2009.

Hugs
Joules

Re: Symps...

[romyra]

Thank you so much! I wish you and yours a most joyous Christmas and a productive, safe and peaceful 2009.

I was born and raised on an island in the tropics so snow is an entirely new experience for me. I had no idea that it got this cold and boy oh boy was I shocked. I looked like an Eskimo since I was bundled up in Cashmere and three different layers of clothes just to go out, but it is an experience that I would not change for all the world.

Just picturing you in that get-up made me cold all over again. I'm off to take a muscle relaxant and go to bed. Being unable to walk is very much not fun, if I didn't know any better I'd say my joints were freezing up because of the cold.

I'm having the best time though!

[suresoundstudio.livejournal.com]

re: your back

I think I'll have to massage it when you return.

[romyra]

Lol....Its much better these days because we changed the computer chair and yesterday we bought a proper chair so I am not so stiff. The freezing extremities however, cannot be changed.