Cold Snap!

So, the temperatures's gone way down and it's supposed to be cold here in DC today. Like, high in the 50's. Oh no! We might have to wear a jacket! You mean it's actually going to be cool in the fall...???

While a lot of DC natives will be shivering today, I'm just giggling on the inside. Why? Cuz this is the time of year when I'm SO GLAD that I left my hometown for the much warmer Mid-Atlantic.

Did y'all see how Buffalo got SMACKED! last night with a massive dump of lake effect snow? Ah, how those 3 words used to loom over my childhood.... we were always so used to snow that the threat of just a little flurry never got us excited about possible school closings. With only 5 allowed snow days a year, it had to be a freakin' blizzard to cancel classes for the day. So that meant that big snowstorms just meant tense rides into school, school buses fishtailing on country roads, snow boots and scarves and gloves and frost bite, giant snow drifts and white-outs blocking your vision and blinding you with glare, wet clothes and carpets everywhere, and never really being able to warm up.

With that storm last night, Western New York has ALREADY set a new record as the snowiest October ever. And yeah, I remember getting snow on Mother's Day. More than once. That's 8 months of winter.

So, I'll gladly walk around in the "cold weather" here in DC today and be happy that I've left all that so-called winter wonderland behind.