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It's near freezing outside, and the sun is setting. I wanted to put Zorro in the garage where it is warmer. If I go inside the garage, she follows me in. But it is always a struggle getting her to stay inside when I leave. She either stands in front of the door so that she can get out ahead of me, or she tries to push her way outside with me. I have to physically block and/or hold her back while I'm squeezing myself thru the door, and then quickly shut it, to keep her inside.

Should I be forcing her to stay inside in cold weather? Or should I just let her go and stay outside, since that is what she seems to want? She's pretty good about not trying to force her way into the house with me.... if we leave the house door wide open, she'll take advantage and run inside, but otherwise she seems to know she isn't allowed inside the house, and doesn't try to sneak in with us. So surely she knows that if she leaves the garage with me, she will be stuck outside in the cold, right? So if she keeps trying to get out of the garage, then she must prefer being outside in spite of the cold, right? Or does she maybe have separation anxiety, and hates being shut inside the garage alone, and that overrides her better sense about the temperature?

If she doesn't even mind being outside in freezing temperatures, is there any point in turning on the radiator inside the garage when I force her to stay in there?

The forecast is for a low of 20 degrees F overnight (-7 degrees C). Ooooh... we have a slight chance of snow on Friday!

Tomorrow the forecast is for sunny with a high of 36 to 43 degrees, depending on which source I check. Should I keep her in the garage tomorrow while I'm at work, or should I leave her outside? It's usually fairly temperate on the front porch in the late morning and early afternoon even on cold but sunny days, since it is sheltered on 2 sides and gets full sunshine.

The power went out at my work. So I went to eat lunch early, and then for a walk. It was very cold outside, though sunny. In a sandy area, I came across some neat small ice formations - they looked like crystals pushed out of the sand and/or like little white long-stemmed mushrooms. I looked it up, and they are called ice needles.

If I had taken my new cell phone with me, and had remembered that it has a camera, I could have taken a photo of the ice needles I saw. I still haven't gotten the internet working on it though. Once I get the right data cable, I will try "seem editing" and/or reinstalling the phone's Motorola software to see if that helps. As well as installing Opera Mini. In any case, I've got some learning to do about cell phone software and modding.

If the power still isn't back on at work yet, I will go wrap some fiberglass insulation around the water pipes where they exit from the water heater. I noticed those pipes were quite warm and having them uninsulated probably wastes a bit of energy and heat. I also need to measure the diameter of the pipes so I can get some fitting pipe-sleeves to put on the pipes, further away from the water heater and its flue.

It's already dropped to 26 degrees outside, and it's only 8pm! Brrrrrrrrrr!

Current Mood: whoa baby

Why am I so goddamn cold! The thermostat says 68 degrees, and it's been rising all day, from 63, and I didn't feel cold when I got up this morning, but I've been feeling colder and colder ever since! Obviously antihistamines must not make one feel warm since I took one of those pills today; it must be tylenol that helps; but it doesn't seem right to take a pain-reliever like tylenol when one isn't in pain, just freezing. Even my nipples were aching from the cold earlier. I didn't realize the antihistamine was going to make me drowsy, either. I wanted to get things done today, and now it's already late afternoon, and I feel like I haven't gotten anything done yet.

This last week or so here, our deciduous trees here have gone through their color-change. Bright oranges, reds, yellows.

I flipped through the TV channels at Forestfen's for a couple hours yesterday, thinking I'd enjoy the chance to watch all the satellite channels for a change. But the only interesting things on were about the kind of things that depress me.... the history of the Ku Klux Klan, an 80s show on the African Liberation movement, a movie about some British inner-city boy with a mean brother raising a wild bird (ok, that one might not have been totally depressing, but I only saw bits and snatches of it), Iraq.... oh, one thing that wasn't depressing but rather odd/amusing, a Cops show where the cop pulled over a car with 2 good-looking women clad only in bikinis, and the driver was insisting that she didn't have the time to get a ticket and go to traffic court because she was getting a boob job done in 4 days.

Anyway, I didn't find anything good enough to watch, to make me feel that I ought to go ahead and sign up for cable or satellite TV at my house. Yet anyway. I think it would be interesting to sign up for some international stuff, but that would be expensive. And still not uplifting.

I seem to have gotten sick. It is interesting how within a small amount of time after taking some cough syrup, I went from being overly cold even with the radiator on high and 3 blankets over me, to being overly warm.

I don't think I really needed the antihistamine and decongestant parts of the cough syrup, but I needed the acetaminophen against my sore throat and headache, and I didn't want to swallow pills which might stick in my throat. I wonder which ingredient did the neat warming me up trick.

quirky thing about me: when not in public, i eat potato chips, etc., by picking them up from my plate with my tongue. this is to avoid getting my hands greasy.

(?) thing about me: i detest air-conditioning. in my car and house, i never turn it on. i much prefer having the windows open and/or a fan on, even though i live in a hot climate. i like warm & humid weather; i like hot weather; i like fresh air and breezes. i hate being cold. this may be a problem if i ever want to live with someone else, since everyone else (except my mom, who would probably also use it more if not for me) who has access to air-conditioning seems to insist upon using it. perhaps i could compromise... but i wouldn't be happy about it.

the rose-leaf tea is tasty.

i am becoming less body-shy and more comfortable with being unclothed.
which is good. but on the other hand, this makes it seem more of an inconvenience having to be clothed whenever someone else is around, or whenever the curtains are open, etc.

i wonder if i should post pix of me on my website? i've looked through all the photos i've taken of myself since getting my digital camera, and there are quite a few of them that i really like, in one way or another. i sort of want to post them... but...
1. this is a temporary urge.
2. they may seem special to me, but probably wouldn't to other people.
3. what i look like isn't really important.
4. would other people want to look at them?
5. would having pix of me on my site distract people from reading the words on my site?
6. how many photos would be too many?
7. would it be a bad idea in general... too self-identifying to anyone who knows me in real life? too identifying for any potential stalkers out there? shall i be paranoid or not?

Current Mood: thoughtful
Crossposts: http://darkoshi.livejournal.com/478105.html

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