tights
knee-high socks
wool slacks
wife beater
long sleeved t-shirt
turtle neck sweater
I make a rather charming addition to the Stay-Puft Marshmallow family, I think. Sure, it’s awkward wearing two extra layers of clothing, and I do get a little nervous about being mistakenly proton zapped (or whatever the heck it is) by a vigilante Ghostbuster, but it sure beats hypothermia. Or frostbite. Or any of those other nasty winter maladies.
Around 2:00 AM last night, I got a text message from a gleeful Biscuit excited over the first snowfall. I sat up, dragged a third down comforter up from its decorative position at the foot of the bed, hunkered down and cursed the weather gods. I’d have shaken my fist at the sky, but that would have required it to be out of the covers for just way too long.
Can’t we just skip this winter shit this year?
Please understand that usually I don’t mind it all so much (as things like cider and earmuffs make up for the temperature issue) and that my attitude has a lot to do with being sick and simultaneously being out of sick days until the new year and thus forced to work while feeling like death would be vastly preferable to sustaining violent coughing fits while sitting in an office with vents blowing air so cold that my fingers can’t even feel themselves typing horribly long and potentially run-on sentences.
I clearly need a nap… and to refrain from blogging while on cough medicine with codeine.
It snowed in Philly for the first time last night too. I am so not amused.
Wow, my wife wants your decorative third down comforter.
i asked myself one question maybe ten times yesterday while walking around in the cold: why did i move here? cold weather is the only thing that has ever given me the desire to move back to arizona. oh, that and my family, too.
Hope you feel better, Ms. Fish. Here it’s sunny, windy, and humid as hell.
it’s -25 degrees celsius here, and we already have piles of snow… if that makes you feel any better
Feel better, Fish! Leave work early, go home and sleep!!
I’ll trade you some hot tea with honey and whiskey for a little of your snow. Hope you feel better soon, Fish.
Feel better soon. I totally thought this article would be about you or by you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19PHENOM.html?oref=login&8hpib&oref=regi
it sucks — i know….i have the 10 layers of clothing along with the boots that, luckily, are fashionable to wear with mittens. Yes, mittens. Count your lucky stars you are in a land where there are enough people to let body heat turn the temperature up in the city. Not like here in Cambridge. Blech.
And feel better — if it ends in quil, take it
Woman I know what you’re feeling. I’ve got layers on too and this weather just sucks big balls. When you get home tonight, maybe you should call that cop Joe and ask him to come over and keep you warm. I came to work today with layers and big ass clown rain boots, The only thing I took off was my rain boots and put on my nice ones and my coat. Still have my scarf and long sweater on. Feel better Pesce.
…and remember, MULLED WINE!! Ditch the cider, get on with the wine.
And for good measure, a quick shot of cognac (whether you like it or not, a QUICK shot can’t do anything but good).
Even on cough medicine and codeine, you’re certainly more coherent and interesting than most of us could ever try to be!
Hope you feel better soon!
hope you feel better fish, drink some coco and have you some smores when you get home
Everyone likes parfaits. And cough medicine with codeine. Feel better sweetie.
it’s 66* here in oklahoma.
don’t be jealous. i AM in oklahoma.
feel better soon!
get well soon!!! Good news is that on the bbc website, there was an article that chocolate actually cures winter flu!!
Can fish say “chocolate overload”?
mmm yummy!
Amanda
ok, I lied and had to tell the truth. However, chocolate is said to cure a cough. That counts for something, right? Eat up!
Chocolate lover in London,
Amanda
Codine… is your friend.
I find the few extra pounds I add from over eating at this type of year keeps me blissfully warm. Of course it’s a bite in the ass come spring. Effing treadmill is my enemy.
woah . . . don’t forget, sick days are for when you are not actually sick. if you have a cold, you have to come into work and give it to everybody else. how else are you going to get rid of it?
and save the sick days for when you can enjoy them, i.e., when you’re perfectly fine. that’s how we do it in new york!
“..And in the morning, I’m making waffles!”
-Donkey
The weather in southern England is still fine for a light jacket. But why would you wear a ‘wife beater’? I can only assume it is some item of clothing and not a brutish guy!
SHREK!!! it’s been on the tip of my tongue since i read that header…i was like hmm, that sounds soooo familiar…great quote from a great movie…good choice!
how do you handle the going-from-freezing-cold-outside-plus-wind-chill ensemble to the being-inside-grossly-heated-building thing sweetie, epsecially if doing it many times over the course of a day- beyond performing strip-teases and then reversing them at every door?
i’ll be in new york in a week or two and am looking at my half-packed bag with trepidation. this perfect australian summer is not helping!