Are we being punked?

I feel like the past couple weeks, the weather has been getting colder, not warmer, especially since it snowed in Pensacola the other day (which made national news) and it's been rainy / dreary here (and anywhere between 40° and 60°). We're reverting into northern weather for being a tropical area. 

Hell must be fully freezing over right now.

For area context, Pensacola is 8 hours and 45 minutes north west of me, according to Google Maps. It's one of those northern border cities that is near the Alabama/Florida line. Pensacola is a mere 70 minutes to Mobile and if you want to go further west, it's a 3 hour drive to New Orleans. Therefore, I'm about 11 hours and 45 minutes from The Big Easy (should I be driving that way). 

New Orleans got snow too, and it from what I read, it was not only a "once in a lifetime" snow, it was a snow that broke a "record". I would tend to say yes, it broke whatever the record was, if it's a once in a lifetime ordeal. Same goes with Pensacola. No one expects the tropical states to get snow, but the way the world is going right now, anything is possible. 

Which is why it is 67° in my house right now (according to the thermostat) and it's 48° (but feels like 43) outside. It's still ugly out because it's wet out there due to the misting. We've had rain, but we've had a constant low cloud coverage that won't stop the constant itty bitty water droplets from drying up.

It feels like you're in one of those automatic water feeders in the vegetable aisle at the grocery store. The type that just quickly blasts liquid on the veg the second you reach your hand to grab it, and now your arm is slightly wet. With the cold, you get get warm. 

The crazy thing is the bedroom windows are open. As much as my mother and I are like "it's cold", she keeps insisting on the windows being open. 

This is how you get sick, but it's the only time we get to keep the windows open and get fresh air. I know people up north can't do that right now because they actually have snow, but they also get to keep their doors and windows open more than we do through out the year since the humidity sucks the life out of you here. 

Now it's one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations because we complained about the heat and humidity too long and now we've got cold and rain. I'm glad I don't have to drive around 5 miles of road on a golf cart in shorts, for sure, but I also would like to have just a little heat because this is crazy. 

Whoever said "the brochure sure does look nice" is full of crap. Although, the pictures I took last night when I took the trash out, do look like it's pretty nice out, don't let the calmness fool you.

Which is what it is. Calm. And cold. It all may look pretty, but it also looks like something stormy is coming. During the day, it's dull and gray, looking like it should start snowing when we know it's not going to reach us this far south (it did once, in the 1980s I heard. Naples got a quick flurry but it dried up quicker than it could land on the ground). 

If we're going to be threatened this much with nasty weather, can we at least move back north so we can justify turning on the heat and wearing 3 layers of clothes under down blankets? I feel like this is turning into an obscene show and tell where nature tells us how cold it is and we show you why no one barely has deep winter clothes. 

I think I've sat here long enough, that my hot coffee is now iced coffee. All in a matter of 45 minutes. It turned cold quicker than it normally does. I'm going to have to shut my window and take a shower soon because we need to get out and attempt some errands. 

I am lucky there's no ice around to fall on, but I've learned to be careful in crocs, especially when the bottoms are worn down. You can still fall on your butt and break something if you're in an old pair and the ground is wet. I've slipped a few times in parking lots because the painted lines on the ground aren't the best in rubber shoes that have no grip. Today is not a day to wear them. I'm definitely wearing my Nightmare Before Christmas (canvas) shoes and I wish I had high tops to keep my ankles warm under a long pair of pants.

Even my mother just came to tell me tonight is going to be one of the coldest nights all year, even though it's been pretty cold during the day. She's wearing long pants and a long shirt too. It's one of those times where we've got to dig around through your closet to see if you have anything warm. All I can say is "thank god that I saved most of my long pajama pants and have bought new long pants". I moved to Florida wearing my Revs hoodie, so that's never been packed, even though we moved in the summer. I've got another Revs sweatshirt in my closet, so I know I can grab that if I need it. I refuse to wear my Columbia jacket I bought to go to Elgin in 2016. I need to bite my pride and just put it on if we're going out. Give in to looking like a local when I don't consider myself one. 

Ugh... 

Ooooh! I can see a little of the sun! I guess it's a sign to get moving. 

Stay warm and stay dry. 

Cheers;

See Also

* First two gifs, found online, are scenes from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

* The photos I took were with an iPhone 11 and I used Photoshop to put my name on them. 

* The brr emoji was found online.