Thu 30 Nov 2006
…my nose is cold from having to breathe in the cold air.
…I keep sitting on my hands to warm my fingers, but all I end up doing is freezing my butt.
…when I touch my tongue to the roof of my mouth, I can feel that it’s cold, and when I put a little puddle of saliva to the roof for a couple seconds then push the pool to the tip of my tongue, I can tell that the saliva is now cold which means my nasal cavity can be used to make ice cream.
…James suggested I drink something warm, and I drank a cup of hot coffee, but that just made me pee which meant I had to get half-naked in a restroom and sit on an ice-cold toilet seat, which just made everything worse.
…I went to Jordan’s blog several times today just to cuss at her weather pixie who’s announcing that Florida was 85 degrees Fahrenheit today.
…I still don’t think it’s fair we can pronounce judgment that will take away a man’s freedom for the rest of his life, but they won’t let us change the temperature in our own courtroom. (The thermostat is sealed behind a metal cover that only the maintenance crew has the specialized tool to open.)
…try as I may, I can’t bring myself to believe I’m in Sunny Southern California. My city dropped to 39F last nite, kicking the butt of the 1994 record low of 41F. But the irony is, it actually is sunny outside.
…I’m actually considering doing some divorce cases, which always warms my heart =P
…I’m trying to talk myself into overcoming the Asian thrift gene so that I’d turn on my heater tonight. So far, the frugal side is still louder, claiming once I change the sheets, I’ll be better, and it doesn’t make sense to heat an entire two-story house when I’m only in 3 square feet of it (curled up shivering in fetal position).
you could always get a space heater for your office and a mattress heater for your bed. 🙂
awwwwww!! You need a super comfy down comforter… flannel sheets (don’t forget to put them on your bed tonight)… and TURN THE HEAT on for the love of God. Even if you turn it to 65.. turn it ON. I sleep better when it’s cold BUT.. I HATE getting out of a warm bed to the cold air of the room and running off to the shower.. brrrr. Oh but that’s right.. I don’t live in NY anymore! It’s going to be 85 again tomorrow… but then we’re expected to get a cold snap and it might only be 70 on Sunday!! shiver!
It was quite cold last night. Cold enough that I got to use the “REST” button on my car for the first time.
When the car is turned off and this button is activated, it apparently takes heat from the still-warm engine and pumps it into the cabin. Thereby allowing you to sit in a warm car when it’s cold outside without having the engine on.
It worked really well! Not as cool as the terminator button, but it kept things nice and warm for a few hours.
Don’t ask me why the button is labeled “REST”. I have no idea.
geeze James… what kind of car do you have??
We’re supposed to have flurries tonight. It was 75 today, 40 on Friday. Whoo Hoo!
One with a ton of mysterious buttons :P.
Cindy was superbly amused by the terminator-style headlight washer button. I think she nicknamed it the Happy button because it’s so cool lol. Except for the person that needs to wash the car afterwards. Or for the one standing next to the car when i push it who gets wet.
It’s an SLK55. Here’s a pic of one.
Mel – ya know, buying that stuff would probably be more expensive than turning on the heater for like 2 nites, but I’m THAT cheap. Err, Chinese.
Jordan – stop rubbing it in!
James – maybe I have a “rest” button, too! I need to crack open that manual. Or maybe I’ll just give it to you as a research project. Since you have so much time on your hands to search for photos of your car online.
Flat Coke – what’s a flurry? All I know is that McDonalds has a McFlurry.
HEY. I have wiper blades on my car too.. so ha.
Oh and Cindy.. sorry, it’s not going to be 70 on Sunday.. the high is going to be 78. You know how these weathermen are… liars!
HOW cold is it in LA?? Can’t be THAT cold.
just find a warm body to sleep with. dodo is warm…
Jordan – You didn’t see that thing I wrote that said it was in the 30s?! And about James’s car, it’s not wiper BLADES. He has this button in the car that cleans his headlamps when pushed. He’d used it before, but had never actually SEEN what it did, since his arms aren’t long enough for him to reach the button whilst standing in front of his car. So that time when we were Zaino-ing the cars, he got behind the wheel to push the button while I stood in front of his car to report back what actually happens. There was a whirring sound, and two tiny spigots actually pushed themselves out of the front of his car like tiny alien antennae, and MISTED the front of his headlamps with some fizzy bubbly fluid! As soon as the headlamps were properly misted, the spigots retracted and disappeared back into the silver and the whirring stopped. The first time I saw it…*wiping away a tear* I’ll never forget it. I lost all control of my motor skills and actually found myself — with some level of removed horror — jumping up and down and clapping while giggling, like a 5-year-old who was just told she’s going to have ice cream for dinner. (Actually, I’d still react like that if someone told me I’d have ice cream for dinner.)
Diana – I actually thought of that, but that would mean Dodo has to be in my bed, which isn’t worth the de-furring work afterwards.
Lol, wow I couldn’t have described the moment any better than you could have :).
Actually your car might have the same rest feature, I guess you have to look for it. But do you really hang out in you car very much? lol
I could use it right now! I’m freezing at work again. Maybe there’s a way to funnel the heat from my car into my courtroom.
That would be nice wouldn’t it???
You know my friends cat knows about warm engines too. He likes to hide underneath cars that just recently parked to stay warm these nights.