Comfy

[ladysprite]

As much as I hate being cold, I don't think I could ever move somewhere that didn't have a real, solid, freezing, snowing, bleak, icy winter.

I get cold so easily, and it frustrates the heck out of me. I hate the moment of climbing out from under the blankets in the morning, and of having to bundle up to go outside, and sitting in my car hunched and chilly and miserable. I can't stand the way my rings spin and slide on my fingers because my hands are shrunken with cold. The offices I work at are always climate-controlled for big, burly, temperature-impervious men, leaving me shivering and sitting on my hands between appointments.

But....

I can't think of anything in summer, or any other season, that feels quite as good as curling up under an afghan and wrapping my hands around a scaldingly-hot mug of tea, or the first sip of that tea as it thaws a path from my lips, down my chest, into my body. And I adore being able to warm the house up by baking, and knowing that the kitchen is the heart of the house again. Cookies and coffee cake and homemade rolls may still smell good and taste good all year round, but they're just not as fulfilling and comforting and... just plain *good* when the weather outside is also comforting and good.

Plus, there's just something nice about wearing fuzzy sweaters and socks, and giving myself permission to break out the giant shapeless sweatshirts and flannel pajamas and other comfy clothing for a couple of months. I don't think I could tolerate more than a few months of it, but I think I'd be equally miserable if I didn't have this in my life, too....

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

You Bostoners, with you soft southern winters! That's not a real winter. Ottawa gets a REAL winter.

:)

[aries-walker.livejournal.com]

A good, solid, toe-freezing, blizzard-inducing, Niflheim-emulating freezepop winter is one of the big reasons I may someday move up north.

[denimskater.livejournal.com]

Have you considered living in the south and just buying an industrial-strength air conditioner, or shipping in a half-ton of dry ice once a year?

But really I'm writing so I can attach healing wishes!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

This is written so beautifully evocatively I felt chilly, then toasty warm, just reading it.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

That first touch of warmth after being thoroughly chilled is something I consider one of life's most decadent luxuries -- and it's one which (in an appropriate climate) can be had at will. Sometimes in cool weather I'll lie naked on top of the covers for a few minutes before actually getting into bed, just to reproduce that sensation. (In really cold weather, I'm generally already chilled enough by the time I go to bed that I don't need to do that!)

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one who did that....