t’s cold.
Actually, relative to what we’ve been having for the last couple of
weeks, it’s not too bad – the temperature is teetering around freezing.
Seeing that we’ve hit single digits at least once since I’ve gotten back
to Pittsburgh, I should be amazed at how mild it is.
Actually, I don’t mind the cold that much. I’m rarely outside
for more than a few minutes at a time. The problem is, when it’s
cold outside, you have to have the furnace on. And when the furnace
is on, the humidity indoors goes down to about 0. My skin is so itchy
that it feels like I slept in a poison ivy patch. My hands are so
dry that my knuckles are just about down to the bone.
I got so desperate that I started looking up airline tickets to Florida.
I don’t know when we would actually go – I have a grand total of about
one vacation day right now – but the thought of warmth (and humidity) sounded
great to me. And just so you think I haven’t completely wussed out,
I wasn’t surfing around expedia.com just to get out of the cold – friends
of ours from San Diego said they wanted to come visit us this summer, and
I was checking to see if there were any cheap tickets available (there
weren’t).
just realized that
I’ve been doing writing this journal for over four years now (off and on,
of course -- though I’ve never technically been on hiatus, I seem to have
the propensity to forget about this page for days or weeks on end.
You’d think after four years I’d be able to remember). I don’t
really have much to show for it except one or two readers a day, and the
ability to conjure up memories from any PC connected to the internet.
But I don’t have any plans to quit any time soon – on the contrary,
I have a few ideas on how to step this journal up a little -- kick it up
a notch, if you will.
Scary thought – within a few years, or probably in less time than I’ve
spent writing this journal so far, my son will be old enough to read this….
