It was absolutely freezing today. The funny thing is that is was only in the low 60s. Oh boy, wait until I get back to Dalton next month. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I am not sure that I will make it. Kuwait may have ruined cold weather for me for a long time, but even Russ is chilly. It doesn't help that the past eighteen months have essentially been summer-like conditions for me.
Inside our apartment, it is cozy with a balsam fir Yankee Candle burning and a twinkling Christmas tree. Every day, I come home and start streaming Christmas music for a few hours. We have been working our way through Thanksgiving leftovers, one of the things I truly enjoy. I bought a couple of chickens and roasted more vegetables. Then we will work to clear out the rest of the freezer and refrigerator before we fly out on December 16. The other thing that hasn't changed is that there are many holiday treats trickling into our office every day.
Yesterday there was a citywide emergency drill, run much like a school fire drill. With the Gulf war just twenty years past, the government still practices if there needs to be an evacuation. We were told to ignore it in school, but it was quite disruptive with loud wailing sirens surrounding us for the better part of an hour. It's quieter today but one never knows what will happen.
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