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mariamariamaria
01/18/09

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"Negative 24 degrees"...

First of all, where the hell do you live, Hortense? Next to Santa Clause? Say hey to Rudolph woncha please.

Secondly, next time I feel like crying because it's 50 degrees inside the house or because the heating bill is over $250, I will remember the phrase "negative 24 degrees", and then I will put on another sweater, break down and buy that long blanket monk dress (the snugglie?) and then I will shut the hell up. The 30 and 40 degree temps the SF Bay Area went through last month doesn't sound that bad anymore. But I'm the first to admit that I am a major sissy when it comes to the cold. We all are here. My sympathies to all of y'all out there who have to deal with anything below 30 degrees.
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Devonna
01/17/09

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It was a balmy 17 degrees today in St. Paul. I took the dog for a leisurely walk and enjoyed the fact that my nostrils didn't immediately clench shut upon inhaling.

It has been so cold the past couple days that my attached garage turned into a mini ice rink.

My stay-warm strategy is to wear long underwear, flannel lined shoes, and have an extremely snuggly pit bull.
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
01/17/09

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We hit -16 in Lower Crapovia on Thursday night. That was before the wind chill. I never did find out what that was because it was too depressing. No school on Friday for me! Unfortunately the electricians were in to work on the wiring again on Friday so the electric was off for a good part of the workday. I built a fire in the living room and immediately had about 6 of the cats and both dogs all trying to get as close as possible.

Today it was 21 and felt like spring.
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NewsBunny
01/17/09

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Am I the only one who just LOVES cold weather?

This is fine with me. I throw on my coat, gloves, and walk 20 mintues to the subway. I usually don't zip up that coat. Too warm. I don't wear a scarf. Too warm. I don't wear a hat. Too warm. I do cover up my ears; but I use my big ass ipod headphones. I keep all the apartment windows cracked.

I think..the winter air...just SPARKLES!
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tscheese
01/17/09

@NewsBunny: I love every bit of it. I took an hour-long walk in the 17F temperatures a few days ago here in NYC. No gloves. No scarf. Just the coat, and even then I was a little sweaty. Today I was running all over NJ with a friend of mine--he's a transplant from Georgia, I'm a transplant from South Dakota--and I wouldn't shut the hell up about how brilliant and crisp and sparkling and fresh and beautiful it was. It was about 12F by the time we were out and about.

I LOVE the cold. It feels so cleansing and brisk.
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tscheese
01/17/09

@tscheese: And by "I love the cold", I mean, "I love temperatures in the teens and twenties," not "I love negative a zillion."

Where I grew up, we had a pretty healthy respect for winter when it was literally -20F. As in, you didn't leave the house. As @Shelita (sorry, it's not letting me reply to you directly) says, below-zero temperatures can LITERALLY kill you, fast.
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ImproperDancing
01/17/09

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We're having a freak heat wave in San Luis Obispo,CA.

It's 80 today...and I for one am bitter.

I can haz rain and fog plz.
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Nighthawk (the former Okori Wadsworth) is headed back to DGUSA in November!
01/17/09

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leather jacket, boss yellow FUBU sweatshirt, long pants, thick socks.

plus.... warm sandwiches and spicy cheese enchiladas. makes you feel a lot better.
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Penny Farthing
01/17/09

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I have steam heat and even my apartment is not impervious to the 0 degree temps here in the Cleve. To augment the radiators, I'm baking constantly, since I don't pay for heat, just cooking gas. It'll be the difference between a $9 gas bill and a $12 gas bill. The boyfriend and I made lasagna last night, since that tastes great on a cold night and it required the oven to be on for over an hour. I'm firing it up again now for a batch of oatmeal cookies, and after that, I dunno...shortbread?

Naked snuggling, fuzzy socks and morning sex help too.
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FourInchHeels
01/17/09

@Penny Farthing (the former MGB): Alright, so if I send you my address I trust you will a steaming batch of cookies my direction? :)
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TRexstasy
01/17/09

@Penny Farthing (the former MGB): Naked snuggling, fuzzy socks and morning sex help too.

*bursts into tears*

Sorry. I'm just in the midst of a long miserable dry spell and that bit kind of made me want to choke you.
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CollegeBookworm
01/17/09

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I'm in Boston for school, and I don't think I've ever been outdoors in temps as cold as it's been the last few days. Last night I left my friends' suite on the other end of campus around 3am, and the walk back to my room was miserable. I want to say it was something like 3 degrees Fahrenheit? Leaving my room this morning at 12:30 in 12 degree weather practically felt WARM. And today's high is 21! And tomorrow it will be warm enough for snow, aka around freezing! I'm quite excited for temps hovering around 32.
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hellosunshine
01/17/09

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Five minutes after my comment, my radiator exploded and I now ave a lovely second degree burn and am awaiting percocet. i would rather freeze now!!
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shewar
01/17/09

@tinycowboyhats (hellodarling!): !!!! How does that even happen?
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FourInchHeels
01/17/09

@tinycowboyhats (hellodarling!): OH NO! I'm so sorry to hear that :( Does percocet warm the belly the same way whiskey does? Because you might want to look into just getting reeeeeeeally drunk instead!
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hellosunshine
01/17/09

@shewar: I had turned on the radiator, which I've never used here, because it's effing freezing. Then it got REALLY loud and I looked in the kitchen and there's a fuckton of steam coming out of it. So I run over to turn it off and BOOM! The knob comes flying off and steam is GUSHING into the apartment. Super and Boyfriend run home and Super turns off the heat to fix it. You literally couldn't see ANYTHING in my apartment because the steam was so thick. So then I looked down and my arm is bright red and starting to pucker, and I called my mom and she said to go to the ER NOW. Sure enough, it starts bubbling (sorry) and now it's all bandaged and still hurts like a mofo!

@FourInchHeels: Damn, I already took the Percocet! I reeeeally hope it kicks in soon, because I'm about ready to rip off my arm below the elbow, it urts so much!
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CherriSpryte
01/17/09

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You all have inspired me to make chili, which is how i shall be staying warm. Its cold for DC (feels like 8 degrees farenheit), but my apartment is pleasantly toasty. The Mall however, will be freezing tomorrow. And tuesday.
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MediasBlue
01/17/09

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Winter in central Montana: calling in to work to say I wasn't going to make the drive in until it got up to 20 below. Not that anyone was there to take the call - they were just as frozen. Nothing like the joy of finally making it in to discover that you'd be spending the day trying to pump out a flooded basement due to a broken water pipe...

How to stay warm? Whine. Be friendly with other whiners. We'd toddle off to my best friend's house, rent movies, and sit in front of the wood stove, and whine together. At night, I could always tell how cold it was if my cat was on my bed (zero degrees), under the covers (10 below), snuggled behind my knees (20 below), and stretched out along my back (30 below).

On the good side, cold weather means ice on the lakes. A good layer of ice means ice fishing!!! I know, I'm weird, but I really like ice fishing - fresh fish and since we only fish on sunny days, there is nothing like being outdoors on such cold, crisp, beautiful days and hearing the ice pop. I'm planning a fishing day on Monday...
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la.donna.pietra
01/17/09

@AbyrneShasse: Yep, the cat-under-covers index is a good one. I employed it quite frequently before I moved to a place with a working heater.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
01/17/09

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I'm from Iowa, where winter is basically an Oct. 1 through Apr. 1 affair, with the types of temperatures that have you scraping off the inside of your car as well as the outside. And I have never, ever, even gotten used to it. I would move to Hawaii and bask in identical 75-degree weather every day for the rest of my life. "Wouldn't that get boring?" No. Because instead of being stuck inside half the year, I would be biking, and swimming, and gardening....
Excuse me while I disappear into escapist fantasy world.
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Pocahaunted
01/17/09

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It's too cold to leave the apartment I tells ya! To cold to walk to the bodega. Must find a way to convince boyfriend...
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Bunny_of_doom
01/17/09

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I'll be sitting here in my office in FL feeling like a douche while a majority of the Jezzies are freezing their asses off.

Watch out for the yellow snow ladies. It is not lemon flavored.
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veronykah
01/17/09

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Space heaters people! They are fantastic. Take it in the bathroom, nice toasty shower!

Space heater and down comforter, having a dog sleep in your bed is also fucking GREAT if you don't happen to have anyone else to keep you warm.
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FourInchHeels
01/17/09

@veronykah: Last year I got a little space heater (cheapest one at Target) and the damn thing put my house out of power each and every single time I used it. My roommate's 60" flat screen was fine ... but my stupid little heater would blow the fuse. Riddle me that!
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kelsium
01/17/09

@FourInchHeels: During the "Worst Christmas Gifts" thread last month I remember someone telling a story about how they got a space heater and a clapper switch and tried to hook them together and ended up melting everything. That was my favorite one.
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FourInchHeels
01/17/09

@kelsium: Now I'm a little sad that I missed that thread! Methinks I'll have to do some digging to find these hilarious stories.
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kelsium
01/17/09

@FourInchHeels: I spent like three hours the other day going back and reading the stories linked to from the "Favorite Stories of the Year" post. The one that dissolves into like twenty pages of LOLInsults is pretty much the shit.
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FourInchHeels
01/17/09

@kelsium: PM me the link??
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