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Oh, Spring, please come back!  This cold rain/snow stuff really sucks.  I know I've been chained to my computer looking for a job all week long, but it sure would be nice to get outside and enjoy you in the evenings.  If only you would come back.

Pleeeeeeeease, Spring?  I'll do all the dishes if you'll give us another chance!  I swear...

Old man winter got hungry.

Incidentally, spring went missing.

Quote from: Domitia on May 12, 2011, 07:11:33 PM
Old man winter got hungry.

Incidentally, spring went missing.

Nooooooo!!!  That's it.  I'm launching an inquiry.  :icon_suspicious:

But I think I'll start by sitting in the bath for awhile and looking at the water.  I'd try laying down in the bath, but I'm too tall for that.  Can I cut a hole through the wall into my neighbor's bathroom so I can enjoy my bath properly?

:icon_chainsaw:

I'd gladly trade the sunshine down here for some snow. My body just isn't built for the heat.  :'(

Quote from: JungianZoe on May 12, 2011, 07:42:05 PM
Nooooooo!!!  That's it.  I'm launching an inquiry.  :icon_suspicious:

But I think I'll start by sitting in the bath for awhile and looking at the water.  I'd try laying down in the bath, but I'm too tall for that.  Can I cut a hole through the wall into my neighbor's bathroom so I can enjoy my bath properly?

:icon_chainsaw:

Well, you could, it's a very possible possibility!  :angel:
For all I know, your neighbor might like it too.

I also hear that staring at the water is the perfect way to begin an inquiry. Putting too much effort in at the get-go just causes migraines, whereas staring at water while having a vague thought every now and then, gets things going nice and gently.

The case should be solved sometime within somethings life, hopefully.

Quote from: Zac on May 12, 2011, 07:49:21 PM
I'd gladly trade the sunshine down here for some snow. My body just isn't built for the heat.  :'(

Not going to lie, I prefer wintry weather to summery weather. Spring is okay when it's just exiting winter, but then it gets hot which I dislike.
I like my temperatures being 5-14 C personally. Could be because I have more issues than you can shake a stick at so I always wear jeans and a hoodie, though.

I also happen to be a vampire so the sun burns my eyes, and skin, and - *hears a sizzle* - *flees to the cave*

You Americans are lucky, you at least get a Summer every year.   Here in GB and especially here in Scotland we get slate grey skies and near continuous rain.  If the temperature reaches the high 60s low 70s everyone goes crazy, and if we get three days in a row of this it is called a heatwave and the media start talking about hosepipe bans and suggesting that people take baths together.   I wonder how we Scots would cope with Deep South/Texas summers where it is 110 degrees in the shade and soooo humid?

:laugh:

   

Quote from: Princess of Cups on May 12, 2011, 08:05:28 PM
...suggesting that people take baths together.

And your complaint is...?  :eusa_dance:

Oh, wait.  I just pictured some of my neighbors.  Point taken!!

As for winter, everyone else can have it if they want!  For me, if it's under 75, it's hibernation time.  That's why I keep my apartment at 83.  ;D

All I can hope for now is that this lull in the rain/snow crap holds out a bit longer.  My friend's flight, which was supposed to get in at 11:30, is an hour and a half delayed.  The plane she's supposed to be taking TO Denver is still sitting IN Denver.  Then it has to come back to Denver before there's any point in me making the 45-minute (one-way) drive to the airport, which is so far away because state officials thought it would be hysterical if they located Denver's airport in a different state than Denver.

Seriously, who opened the idiot box today?  They've escaped!!!  Bra. Vo. :eusa_clap:

Quote from: JungianZoe on May 12, 2011, 08:49:58 PM
For me, if it's under 75, it's hibernation time.  That's why I keep my apartment at 83.  ;D

I used to start shivering when the temp dropped below 75, until I got fat-ish.  Now it's more like 70.

All this talk of preferring Winter to Spring is confusing and disturbing.  Oh and it makes me MAD!  Y'all better stop it!

It isn't the heat I object to about spring / summer so much as the sunlight. It gives me headaches because my eyes are photosensitive. Sunny days tend to send me scurrying for the shadows. I have more pairs of sunglasses than most women have pairs of shoes.

Zoe,
  I live in the same area.  You should've gotten out more in the mild winter we had.  I had gotten enough vitamin D from the sun this winter for doing things outside in short shirtsleeves.  The skin on my arms are already tanned and the soft skin is a bonus.  Yes, I used the SPF 70 lotion.  I admit that the windy April was a bummer.  My house is set at 60 degrees all winter, no change from before HRT.  This storm ends tonight with sunny days ahead.  This last rain storm just gave me more snooze time.
  Joelene

You mean, more vitamin D than I buy at the store every time it's on sale?

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*ahem*  :icon_redface:  What can I say?  It's mama's little helper!  Oh, and my microwave says hi too.

The mild winter sure was nice, but even one day of dreary leaves me shaky, and two makes me crumble.  I spent a solid three hours crying today because of this stupid storm.  :(  I could barely do any job searching because of it.  I'm incredibly sensitive to the weather.  Like, STUPIDLY sensitive.

Give me 75+, windows rolled down, sunroof open, music blasting every day of the week, every day of the year! ;D  Well, it can rain once every few weeks just to remind me how beautiful a sunny day is.  And to appreciate the sound of rain.  Actually, warm rain storms are beautiful when they roll in, drop, and slide away.  The smell afterward... oh, how I can't wait to smell it now that I'm on HRT.  This spring was more vibrant to me than any spring before, and probably because it's the first one I saw in 10 years.  I no longer want to be in my apartment for any reason... but until I find a job, here I'm stuck.

Update: flight got pushed back to 2:30 AM.  I don't think I'm going to put makeup on now.  :laugh:


And Jen, I kept hoping that would happen to me when I gained the 25 pounds I wanted.  I gained the weight and my body's thermostat hasn't adjusted...  :icon_confused2:

Quote from: JungianZoe on May 12, 2011, 10:14:03 PM
You mean, more vitamin D than I buy at the store every time it's on sale?

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~SNIP~

That's a lot of vitamin D.... >--<''

I know what you mean about the warm rains, I used to live in Texas, around Austin ,and when it rained down there in the summer it was exquisit; something I miss now I live in the land of freeing rain and igloos. Oh, also when we got a peppering of snow and the schools closed down for the day.

Quote from: Princess of Cups on May 12, 2011, 08:05:28 PM
You Americans are lucky, you at least get a Summer every year.   Here in GB and especially here in Scotland we get slate grey skies and near continuous rain.  If the temperature reaches the high 60s low 70s everyone goes crazy, and if we get three days in a row of this it is called a heatwave and the media start talking about hosepipe bans and suggesting that people take baths together.   I wonder how we Scots would cope with Deep South/Texas summers where it is 110 degrees in the shade and soooo humid?

:laugh:

   

Neegh..... It's like swimming through the air.....

Ugh, I know how you feel.  A couple days of clouds, and it seems like everyone's ready to kill each other or just give up and go back to bed.  I had a final today and was about ready to say "screw it."

Here's my contribution to your evening:
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For best results view with a full spectrum bulb and a margarita.

Quote from: Lee on May 12, 2011, 11:22:57 PM
Here's my contribution to your evening:
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For best results view with a full spectrum bulb and a margarita.

I did spend a week in Key West for two years in a row in February several years back.  That was nice.  I came into town that second time in a raging blizzard!  So much for tropical dreams, welcome back to the real world! 
  Joelene

Good call Joelene.  I think that should be a national tradition.  After all, Key West is the perfect combo of beach, key lime pie, and attractive gay men in speedos. 

Quote from: Tesseract Allen on May 12, 2011, 10:26:40 PM
I know what you mean about the warm rains, I used to live in Texas, around Austin ,and when it rained down there in the summer it was exquisit; something I miss now I live in the land of freeing rain and igloos. Oh, also when we got a peppering of snow and the schools closed down for the day.

I went down to Dallas on September 23-24, 2000 (I remember because I came home on my birthday), during that summer of record 100+ days.  Even at 95, that was the most miserable I'd ever known the outdoors to feel!  Probably double because I was dressed up for an outdoor wedding that day.  Not even Florida felt as humid as Dallas did.

Quote from: Lee on May 12, 2011, 11:22:57 PM
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For best results view with a full spectrum bulb and a margarita.

I want. I want. I want....

And I hope you did well on your test! ;D  I felt so bad for my students this semester, because they were all stressed out and I had no classes.  Okay, I didn't feel too bad for them.  :laugh:

I don't know how anyone survives humidity like that.

Thanks Zoe, it went well.  Soon I'll get to join you in enjoying rubbing being done in people's faces.  ::)

  ANY men in speedos to me is still ICK!  Dallas and Austin?  Austin is nice compared to Dallas.  I have a sister near the Houston Bayou and a niece near Austin.  Houston?  Now that's bad, really bad!  Houstonians go to Dallas to dry off and Austin or Galveston to cool off!
  Del Sol is the best method of getting your vitamin D according to a latest study.  Some older women have problems metabolizing the oral type, my sister included.  However, the addition of vitamin D to milk did stop the winter rickets (bowleggedness from softening bone) in children.  In the old Soviet Union, the kids in winter had to stand around in their underwear near a large mercury bulb with UV safety masks on for several minutes at a time during recess.     
  Joelene

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         ^^^^^^^      Zoe's house  ^^^^^^^

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I believe that Homo Sapiens were designed to go about naked at all times.   Take a good look at the soles of your feet, see how thick the skin there is,we were designed by God, the Tao, Allah to walk barefoot.    I hope that someone asks how would we cope with the cold. 

Quote from: Princess of Cups on May 13, 2011, 04:31:52 PM
I believe that Homo Sapiens were designed to go about naked at all times.   Take a good look at the soles of your feet, see how thick the skin there is,we were designed by God, the Tao, Allah to walk barefoot.    I hope that someone asks how would we cope with the cold.

The answer is stemcell jackets, right?
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Quote from: Janet Lynn on May 13, 2011, 08:24:20 AM
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         ^^^^^^^      Zoe's house  ^^^^^^^

Well that explains the state of my room...  :laugh:

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Honestly, I'm usually a clean freak.  But I spent 8 of the last 9 months on the road, stopping here only long enough to empty my backpack, fill it up again, and leave.  With all that snow, could you blame me?  ;)

Sweet gladiolas on a donkey turd, I'm so sick of clouds and rain!!  Ten days without blue skies or direct sunlight and I'm starting to get soooo looooooow.....  Too upset to even think about my job search any longer because even the mere thought that I'm unemployed sets me off into a crying fit.

I laid in my bed for two hours today, curled up with the bear my mom held as she gave birth to me.  It's something I do when I'm at my lowest points.  It's pretty obvious that my seasonal depression is back in full swing due to this weather because I can't face anything at all.

Can someone mail me some of my beloved sunshine?

Zoe there must be a weather system stretching all the way across the Atlantic.   The whole of May has been grey and dark, and cold as well.

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Please don't hate me, Zoe.  But we had a beautiful day today.  And tomorrow it will be in the 70's.

But here is some spare sunshine.

The Atlantic too, eh?  The Pacific is what's serving up the crap that we're getting.  Looking out my bedroom window, I see that the pool at our apartment complex has overflowed, which makes me pretty glad that I'm on the second floor since my building is the one right next to the pool.

And Janet, I love that sunshine!  Looks like a Bob Ross painting...  :)  I actually have episodes of Joy of Painting on DVD, and I think I'll pop those in while I clean.  His voice was so soothing, and I can't really handle cacophony right now.  Not when I've finally got the strength to get out of bed.  Today was so blue that I took a shower at 10 AM, did half my makeup, cried, put my pajamas back on, and climbed back under my covers.  Lost a whole day of job searching.

Then one of my friends told me I was being a downer and canceled our plans for tonight.  This hasn't been my month...

  Zoe, I get tired of this too.  The Ouija forecast for tomorrow calls for some clearing tomorrow and dry for the weekend.  That Jet Stream loop will be at our south for a while yet.  My garden is fine, but the corn has not come up.  If they don't germinate properly because of the prolonged cold we had, I will have to replant.  Smile  :), we care.  Good luck with the job hunt! 
  Joelene

P. S. I like the late Bob Ross too.  I loved it when he turns a blank canvas to a finished painting in less than 1/2 hour!

Thank you, Joelene!  :icon_hug:  I really hope that your corn finds the strength it needs to take root and greet the sun.  I'm hoping the Ouija board is right for tomorrow, because even the great 9News prognosticator Kathy Sabine confirms it. :laugh:

OhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhplease...

And wasn't Bob Ross wonderful?  I'll bet he never suffered much cabin fever, he just whipped out a canvas and painted the cabin.  :laugh:  I wish I could find the calm that he always exuded.  Still remember the day he died, just a month after my high school graduation, and how much of a loss for humanity I felt it was.  Still feel it was.  The world could use more people like him, who create such beauty while empowering others to do likewise.

  I used the same Ouija board.  Kathy is high on the science for girls program she helped start.  I see more girls getting science scholarships in the past decade.  The boys are still playing videos, the girls have gone to college. 
  Joelene

So I was working on some job search stuff this morning while the sun was out, thinking I'd go out and enjoy it this afternoon... and now the storms moved back in while I was getting ready to go and I missed the sun entirely.  :icon_cry:  I'm so mad at myself that I've cried off all the makeup I just put on and I'm on the verge of a full-blown panic attack.

Think it's time to climb back into bed.  I seriously can't deal with this.