Dear Santa,
I haven’t moved from my bed in three days and I don’t feel bad about it either. Sure, I go upstairs and downstairs but I haven’t even exposed my bare shivering cold body to the shower, I have to plan for that. My goal is to shower tonight but more likely it will be tomorrow sometime in the morning after a good night’s sleep.
It is this horrific change in temperature and while I could blame it all on Fibromyalgia and many of my physical disabilities I am not going to do that. For me, it sounds like I’m staging a revolution of sorts, a sit in from the sixties (“I told you, year after year, how much I HATE the cold weather” ) which is entirely childish but so definitely true.
I don’t want to leave my house (okay bed and blankets) to go outside where the wind blows right through me and I can’t find a glove/mitten made warm enough to keep my fingers toasty. Does such a thing really exist? I’m doubtful. If so, can you please send me a pair or two?
Honestly, how anyone except teenagers would want those texting gloves is totally beyond me. I just don’t get this texting craziness and I never will. I do know I stink at technology which my children make fun of me endlessly. The trouble is I don’t care about it, not the phone or the computer, they have no real value to me. They are “things,” just like my car. They serve a purpose but I wouldn’t go crazy if there was a scratch or two on it. Please. My kids were practically born with these gadgets, I was not and I have no interest in them.
I want a phone to reach a loved one or AAA if my car breaks down, a computer to write my blogs and a camera for photos on my phone. That’s about it. I don’t use 99 percent of the phone’s functions to begin with and maybe, maybe, I know half of one percent of what the stupid phone can do, if that.
I am waiting for the first frost and snowfall, I know it is coming any day now. The bad weather, ice storms, sleet, leave me home bound (not that I am complaining) but I’m terrified of falling on the ice and breaking bones. Been there, done that, many times. Look, some people are penguins and love sashaying and skiing through the snow and others, like me, prefer warmer climates. There is nothing wrong with that, except when you are a sun worshiper, living close to the North Pole. I truly love you Santa
but I don’t exactly want to be your neighbor. Have your ever considered two locations?
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That’s the only thing we can count on, time passing. I would NOT be happy in Oregon though my husband loves it there. The gray, dreary, rain would not be good for me at all. I need bright sunny skies, even if it is cold. Nobody has it perfectly, I guess!
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Hmm. Had this discussion often. After caring for aging parents in AZ, along with several SCORCHING hot summers, we have a small place in Oregon as well as a place in Arizona. If it were up to me, I can tolerate 4 months of terribly hot weather for the 8 months of beautiful weather that follow summer. As for Oregon, even having grown up in the Pacific NW, it seems so very humid compared to Arizona. Even when the temps are similar, it is just miserable and sweaty to work outside or move around. Funny, but I didn’t really notice it until moving away from it. There, we joked (when we lived there full time) that there were two seasons. Warm rainy season and cold rainy season. It is about “flipped” to AZ. Up there, about 4 months nice summer weather and 8 months cold, drizzly, sometimes a snowfall crappy, gray skies kind of weather. Unfortunately, kids and grandkids are welded in place up there, so who knows? As for the fibro, MUCH better symptom control in warmer, drier weather. Time will tell.
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