I normally don’t like making posts about the weather, unless maybe I took some awesome pics, because let’s face it, that’d be boring. But I just feel like venting right now and since I’m trying to blog more regularly again I thought it was the perfect topic.

It’s been windy all week long, with Wednesday and Thursday being the worst. It was so windy that visibility was down and it was a pain driving anywhere with all of the dust in the way. Not to mention you got a mouth full of dirt every time you went outside. When I donated plasma on Tuesday it was windy, but tolerable. I remember one of the girls there working on the donor floor complaining about how she had to apply eye cream for something (didn’t really listen to that part) but I did hear how she hated that the dirt got stuck to the cream she applied and how she wished it was raining instead.

I remember thinking she was a moron for wanting that. If it’s windy, dust kicking up everywhere, then it starts raining all you got is mud. That and windshields that are a total mess. Why would anyone want that? Yesterday that twit got her wish. It rained All. Day. Long. When it wasn’t raining it was sprinkling or misting, horrible, horrible. Especially since it was so cold yesterday. Wet + Cold = Pissy Joana. Seriously, there’s only one thing I hate worst then cold weather and that’s wet and cold weather. I was grateful though that, for once, on a bad weather day, the electricity never went out yesterday.

No instead some time this morning before I had gotten up the electricity went out and was out for at least a couple of hours. I woke up to a freezing cold house and my first clue that something was up was when I flicked the switch on one of the room heaters and nothing happened. That was around 9am and the electricity didn’t come on until around 12:30pm, give or take. According to Weather.com the temperature is 48° F (but they note it Feels Like: 40° F) with wind blowing 26mph and gusting to 34mph now that it’s 4pm so you can guess where the temperature was at around say 7 or 8am this morning. Brrrr. And I had no heat because of it.

I was ever so glad that my stove is a gas stove. I took everything out of the bottom oven and lit it full blast with the door open (for a while I swear I thought Isis was going to crawl in there in order to warm up, poor baby) and turned the burners on to boot. Even then, only the kitchen and hallway felt warm. The living room was chilly and uncomfortable and the bedroom was downright arctic. It’s disturbing being in once’s house and seeing your breath in the air in front of you. Needless to say, I’ve been gulping down cup after cup of hot tea (and hot chocolate!) and even made some cup ramen to keep warm. Not to mention, I pretty much camped out in the kitchen all day too. Set up the laptop and wiled the hours away in there. Luckily, a little after the laptop’s battery flatlined the electricity came back on.

Believe me, as soon as the electricity popped back on I ran through the house and turned all of the electric room heaters on full blast. I even lit some incense in the rooms, cookie dough scented incense to be exact, in the hopes of tricking my mind into thinking it’s not as cold as I think it is. See, if you’re smelling cookies baking you bring memories of a “warm kitchen” to the forefront of your mind. It works if you don’t think about it too much. Needless to say, this old adobe house is finally starting to warm up again hours later. I sincerely hope the electricity doesn’t go back out. I don’t think house would ever warm up then!