20 degrees is the new 70

I’m not one to like the cold. My body type, the type that is perpetually cold, should not have been born here (ok, I was born in Michigan but whatever). I’m constantly cold. And the deep freeze of the past two weeks has put me on edge. One can’t even go out without your nose hairs freezing together.

Did you know that happens to be my barometer for coldness…nose hair freeze simply means…IT IS TOO FUCKING COLD.

That said, yesterday the sun was out and the temperature topped out at a whopping 21 degrees. I put my running gear on, ran around the lakes with my nano and could have sworn that I was in Miami beach livin’ la vita loca.

Oh what perspective can do.

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Most useful cooking tip of the day

2 cups = 1 pound.

Yes, my day is that exciting.

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Tales of a Preschool fibster

I’ve been hearing quite the stories from Miss PJ after school over the past few weeks. She tells tails of kids getting in trouble for not including others in their play, kids getting time outs for not being nice and still others being spoken to for just plain old ill behavior.

As we were talking I started to inquire if any of these kids just so happened to be her. “OH NO” she said and went to list four or five classmates that clearly were misbehaving in school, each with their own story.

Seeing that “we” happened to have a few problems with including others in the past, it was not too off the mark for me to think that she was projecting. So last week I told the teacher of PJ’s exciting tales, what she was saying and that I was wondering if it happened to be her and not her classmates at all.

That sweet teacher looked at me, shook her head and said, “Yeah, she’s been having some problems with that.” And then proceed to give us some new reading materials:

Share and Take Turns
Join In and Play
Talk and Work It Out

I decided to add Be Polite and Kind and the one on manners while I was at it.

Can’t hurt, right?

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This afternoon’s game

I can’t talk long. I only have but an hour.

The game I’m going to partake in this afternoon: TOY RESTRUCTURING.

The parameters of the game:
#1. You need two bags: 1 bag for garbage and 1 bag for ARC.
#2. Bin and purge as much as you can, as quickly as possible.
#3. If it is questionable, get ride of it anyway. Less is more.
#4. I always have a hard time with this one. Never, ever be sentimental.

My partners in crime this afternoon will be…a diet coke and Justin Timberlake.

Please excuse me, I must be off.

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