Yeah, yeah, I can see all of you Northerners scoffing at me while lovingly looking at the flames in your fireplace, but it is too damn cold for this Texan. I can't promise it, but I am pretty sure we had record lows today. Funny thing is it was 80F like four days ago. EIGHTY.
Last weekend, when I was watching the weather at the end of the news, the crazy man on the TV said that it would be 18F on Thursday. Luckily, I have TIVO, so I rewound that because I thought SURELY I had misunderstood him. He said 18F again and I rewound once more... still 18F. I figured, what the hell does he know. I mean, shit, nine out of ten times, they are wrong anyway. And this is Texas. It is frequently said here, "Oh, you don't like the weather? Well, wait ten minutes."
But, today, at three o'clock it was 28F. Un-fucking-real. And what made it worse was that it was raining. Probably should have been snowing since it was cold enough to FREEZE everything.
I know a bunch of you are rolling your eyes and thinking Wow, what a puss but bare in mind (bear? bare? I never know which one it is) I live in Texas for a reason. I like it warm damnit. I like for my winters to be a month of 40 as the low, at night.
I mean, look at these two pics. These are of the windows in my car driving home. There is ICE on the windshield and on the passenger side window (amidst the smudges from little kid hands). I don't know how to deal with ICE for fuck's sake.
UPDATED: It is 8:30am right now and weather.com says it is 25F but feels like 13F! The optimists today are saying we will get up to 39F.
