{"id":598,"date":"2013-12-11T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:27:01","slug":"surviving-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2013\/12\/surviving-the-cold.html","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a couple of colleagues who positively revel in the cold, biking in negative bazillion degrees and taking pictures of their frozen beards and stuff. Me? I hate the cold. I’m more like my colleagues that moved here from CA or Hawaii in my preferences, though I’ve lived in the midwest most of my life.<\/p>\n

So here’s how I cope:<\/p>\n

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  1. Silk Long Underwear, and get the good stuff (my favorite is Lands End).\u00a0This is the single most important purchase for anyone living in a cold climate. I’m more of a wimp than most, so I wear this pretty much continuously from October to April. Bonus, I just figured out that you can even wear it under opaque tights!<\/li>\n
  2. Two scarves — a silk one next to your neck and face, wrapped to cover your nose, and then a regular one over that to keep out the wind.<\/li>\n
  3. Two pairs of mittens — I have lovely, warm hand-knit ones with thin commercial-knit mittens underneath. And mittens are far better than gloves because all your fingers can snuggle together for warmth.<\/li>\n
  4. A regular coat for most of the time, but a thick, ugly survival coat for those truly cold stretches.<\/li>\n
  5. A hat. Ideally it should cover your ears and forehead. It WILL mess up your hair.<\/li>\n
  6. YakTrax<\/a> — do NOT try to walk on ice without them.<\/li>\n
  7. Lots of throw blankets around the house. Nobody can afford to heat a house to balmy temperatures in this kind of cold and wind, so keep things tolerable and then snuggle into blankets for extra coziness.<\/li>\n
  8. Adhesive foot warmers<\/a> for inside your shoes. (And when it’s REALLY bad, hand warmers<\/a> for inside your mittens.)<\/li>\n
  9. Thick flannel sheets on your bed (again, go for something like Lands End — it’s worth it).<\/li>\n
  10. Heated mattress cover — warm up the bed for the half-hour before you go to bed. Mmmmm. (Ok, so this one is optional compared to the others. Taking a hot water bottle to bed with you works too. But man, if you have the chance to get one, it sure is lovely.)<\/li>\n
  11. Window plastic to keep out the drafts. Again, drafts become very, very expensive when you’re talking truly cold weather plus wind.<\/li>\n
  12. Lots of warm drinks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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