Cold Snap

Apparently tomorrow is going to be the coldest day of at least the last ten months. Really we have been fairly lucky with winter so far and a couple of cold days are to be expected in January or February. I have become a real whus when it comes to cold weather these days. I am cold all the time. I have just screwed up my internal heating system with dieting I think. I keep waiting for hot flashes to start just so I can take the eternal chill off, but that does not seem to be happening.

Today was one of those crazy busy days where I had every moment planned and accounted for. Just so I could get everything done I even got up an hour early to get some steps in before I had to go to the gym and be tortured by my trainer. Thank goodness for the treadmill desk because if I had to do my walking outside in this cold I would have burned my fitbit long ago.

When I first got out of bed I was a little more cold than usual and almost gave up on walking because the house temp was still set at extra-cold-sleeping-temp. Eventually I made it to the treadmill and started the day with a walking bonus.

After they gym I came home and took a long hot shower and turned back around and left the house to go play Mah Jongg. It was freezing cold at the club. My fellow frozen players and I thought the club was just saving money and not running the heat. After that I got in my little car and cranked up the seat heaters and ran to needlepoint to drop off some finishing.

It was nice a toasty warm there with many of my stitching table advisors in residence, but I could not stay there long because I needed to get to Cary for Carter’s basketball game. I stopped at home to walk Shay and noticed a distinct difference in the temperature in the house. Of course I had just come out of my sauna like car, but I still thought for a second I could see my breath.

I went to the thermostat and sure enough it read 59 degrees actual temp, with a heat setting of 69. NOOOOOO! Today was not the day for my HVAC to fail. I went to the furnace room where I did the only thing I knew how to do, turn the unit on and off. No luck, still cold. I texted Carter that I was going to miss her bball game and called the repairman.

In some miracle he arrived in less than half an hour, found the two broken parts, which he had stocked in the truck, replaced them and got the heat working in less than twenty minutes. To really add icing to this most fabulous cake, when he was writing up my ticket he said, “Have you lost a lot of weight?” If I weren’t so happily married I would have kissed him.

I jumped in the sauna mobile and made it to Cary Christian before the tip off. Carter’s team won in a very exciting game. The only bad part was those Christians must have been trying to save money and they did not have the heat on in the gym. Seemed to be the theme of the day.