my bones are cold

okay, okay. it's been so incredibly cold here for the last week or so. face-breaking cold, or as some people say, 'butt cold' (sometimes my bum gets cold and stays cold when the rest of me warms up so maybe that's what it's referring to). when i was a student walking around on campus in this kind of cold sometimes i'd think about how great it would be to have a really hairy face. then i'd say a prayer of thanks that i didn't.


as you can see from the photo of our thermometer, it's not just below freezing, it's below zero - most of the time. just to give you an idea of what kind of cold we're talking here, we've experienced above freezing temperatures between the hours of 2:00 and 3:00 in the last two days. some people have considered it a heat wave and pulled out their flip flops but then they find themselves at home with their feet immersed in lukewarm water while they look up deadly frostbite on the internet.

here's a photo of our back doorknob from the inside. notice the frost encrusted on the strike plate and lock button. this is serious stuff.

fortunately we have like six different kinds of hot chocolate in our cupboard (when it rains it pours) to choose from - not to mention the various herbal teas. heat up the core first, then get the hypothermia victim out of their clothes and put them in a sleeping bag with two scoops of hot chocolate mix. that's what they taught us in first aid.