Everywhere, folks are wheezing and sneezing and coughing. A big topic at the water cooler is whether zinc really helps to prevent anything and how doctors are prescribing saline nose spray more than they used to.
Ah, to be in Northeast Ohio in the winter!
Of course, there are those folks who managed to escape for awhile. To the south or the west or anyplace where you can step outside without six layers of clothing and winter accessories. I'll have to live vicariously through them.
Next week, "hunkering down indoors" will be our primary vacation destination. I'm trying to use up the last of my PTO for the year. I imagine our travels will be to exotic places like the mall or the library or to see a movie, maybe.
On the up side, the temperatures are supposed to warm up considerably tomorrow. On the down side, more snow is predicted.
And anyone wonders whether God has a sense of humor. Hah!
It has been amusing reading the forecast in the paper. I do believe they've run out of ways to say "cold," although they haven't yet resorted to "cold as a witch's (body part)" or "too f***ing cold for life."
I imagine one day in my dotage I'll be harkening back to these days with phrases like, "This is nothing, why the winter of '17-'18 was colder than anything you could imagine."
My fear is that, with climate change, this winter will become the norm, not the exception.
For now, I am grateful for my warm home, blankets and Netflix.
And for the birds I heard chirping away this morning.
I hope they know something I don't know.
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