This winter is hitting me harder than most.
It’s not just the extreme swings in temperature. We have gone from highs in the low teens to rain in the last couple of weeks. This is on top of the normal extremes of living out west.
It’s not just that my exercise program has me outside more than before. What’s more, because we only get about nine hours of sunlight a day I tend to find myself out walking in the dark when it’s cold both for lack of sunlight and because my mind insists it’s always colder in the dark.
It’s not just the lack of insulation in our house. We put in insulation where we could reach, by my office is in an area that we couldn’t get to. Where everyone else in the house is reasonably warm, I’m watching a thermometer that liked to hover around 55 deg F.
I like to think a lot of it is that I’ve lost about half of my personal insulation. The heavy sweater I’ve been using as a winter coat for the last several years is no longer miraculously toasty. It flops around loosely and let in freezing breezes. I can’t even fill the space with sweaters, though I’m wearing one on top of another now.
What worries me is that I feel this cold and miserable this early in the season. I’ve got months of this left. Ugh.
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