Global cooling is on the way… 🙂

The Grucci Fireworks Co. decided to stand up for Christmas: they’ve had ENOUGH.

The Staten Island Christmas Boat Parade organizers decided to ban the word “Christmas” from the festivities altogether. Grucci, disgusted by this display of mean-spiritedness, bigotry, and holiday-hijacking, said they could jolly well do without the fireworks, then.

I wrote them an email to thank them, at this link:

http://grucci.com/contact.html

This Christophobic lunacy is way out of hand. We’re the only religion that is forbidden to speak its OWN name at OUR OWN celebrations! And if non-Christians find our holidays so “offensive,” they can jolly well stop horning in on them and taking them over.

Good grief.

But anyhoo, I love the cold weather for the same reason csimon seems to prefer it: you can bundle up in every article of clothing you own to get warm, but if you’re too hot, you can only get so naked.

When I first started blogging, before I had a photo on the blog, everyone who came here (all ten of them) seemed to think I was a man. That was also before I had any posts up about my experiences as a ballet dancer or trying on clothes or that sort of girly thing. In fact, one of the original reasons I put my photo up there in rather short order was to make it crystal clear that I am a woman.

As a Westerner who lived on the East Coast for a while, I was always amazed at the tendency there to overheat in the winter, and overcool in the summer. Stepping out of 20 degree weather into an 90 degree room, or conversely leaving a humid 95 degree day to enter a 58 degree room (in both cases verified with a thermometer), always seemed to make things tougher than they had to be because an appropriate weight of clothing for outdoors (e.g., wool slacks and sweater, or summer weight slacks and short sleeve shirt) became wildly inappropriate indoors.

That’s perfect! Have to remember that one. Thanks!

That’s perfect! Have to remember that one. Thanks!