Forg. It’s mid-january and I can’t wait for summer so I can keep telling myself to get some excercise and not do any.
Or to be a bit more positive - I can’t wait for summer so I can get into the habit of doing some excercise (such as manx walks, millenium walk, raad ny folain, cycling, gym, driving, just general being outside)
And a bonus would be to have got so into a good healthy habit that I carry it through the following winter.
It’s summertime now in Australia. We should all go there.
We only have highs in the 60’s this week, I want summer too before we all freeze!
Uhm. I agree with everything re: why isn’t it summer yet, but. Uhm. Driving is exercise where you are? hmmmmm…shit, I have been getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more exercise than I thought…
Welll, driving somewhere then getting out and walking for a bit, then driving home.
I was really counting driving as recreational… Plus good excercise for the left leg if you happen to live in England and are stuck in a motorway tailback.
Forget summer, I’ll take early spring. With the wind chill outside today it’s well below 0 F. I just want to go fishing, just for a bit. Can’t it be at least 45 to 50 degrees out now?
Global warming, my ass!
You want me to read an article?? That’s too much excercise.
Our 7-Day Planner looks just fantastic for this weekend.
Current temp -1
If you sit on the floor in a hot country.
Here’s a cool thing you can do. My son, the Err Apparent, turned me on to this. Wait till its really, really cold, goddam cold, brass monkey balls all over the highway cold, fifteen twenty below…
Take a pot of water and heat it to boiling. Take it outside and toss it into the air. It will instantly turn to light snow with an audible “Whump!”. Its so much fun, you’ll do it a bunch of times!
Ok, that’s cool as shit. I might try it this weekend.
You think that’s cool. If you stare at a mirror for long enough you suck all the light out of the universe (and store it in your head)
On the contrary, now’s your chance to exercise outside without worrying about getting sweaty. At least, not as sweaty as you’d get in summer. If you’re cold, put on more clothes.
I hope that’s °Kelvin.
I’d be happy with 273.15.
We had a low of 60 last night. Hurry up, summertime!
My aunt borrowed my mother’s van this past Monday. The van has one of those fancy interior thermometers in it and when she got in she looked at “-7F (-22C)” and thought to herself, “Oh, it must be broken.” And that, my friends, is when you know you’ve been in the frozen Midwest way, way, WAY too long. When you see -7 and think +15 you’re done for.
Right now it’s -12F(-24C) in temperature with a 10mph wind resulting in a windchill temperature of -30F(-34C).
At this point I could play the stereotype: I’m a tough, born-and-bred Minnesota farm chick. Shovelled snow, ice skated, fed cows, and climbed up the silo when it was -30F. The truth is that cold weather sucks ass; I had to shovel snow to avoid abuse; I ice skated because there was nothing else to do; I had to feed the cows because the diesel fuel gelled in the tractor; and I had to climb up the silo because the unloader quit.
I’m no longer forced to be a farmer’s daughter anymore, thank fuck, so today I went from my heated apartment to my chilly car to my heated job to my chilly car to my heated grocery store for weekend supplies so I won’t have to leave this place again until Monday morning (at which point the worst of fucking Alberta will have fucked off for points south) to my (by then) warmed up car to my heated apartment.
But I still play up a, if not the, sterotype. If a local says, “Cold, ain’t it?” my standard response is, “Well, it IS Minnesota. And it IS January…” Just to be nice, you see.
Because a couple of years ago (and I know I’ve linked it before) I read this, and I’ll never complain about Minnesota winters again.
Bitch a little about the affects, maybe. Never complain.
Boils. Frogs. Painful rectal itch. Diseases of the camel. The caress of Cthulu.
It doesn’t sound cold here- in the 50’s during the day and 20’s at night, but it sure does feel cold. At least most of you have humidity to make it feel slightly warmer. Here when it’s dry, the air feels colder, and when the wind blows hard, which it often does, it really whips through you. Chills you to the bone, really. Hawaii sounds nice.