Pretty sure I was whining about the cold last year, too: Random Tuesday Thoughts
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 4:49AM 
Like, hey, man. It's Tuuueesssday. Isn't that groovy?
Sorry. I had a spa date with FoN this afternoon. We got massages and pedis and now I feel extremely relaxed. Also, I smell like mangos and chocolate.
Wait! Don't go away. I know you usually show up here for the rage and bitterness, and there isn't any today, because I'm just soooooo relaxed. But at least stick around long enough to link your own Random Tuesday post. K? K.
Well, I am a little bitter about the weather. It's minus 41 with the wind chill. That is really fucking cold, people. Exposed skin (should you be brave enough) freezes within a couple of minutes. I've wondered it before and I'll probably wonder it again, but - who the hell was marching along and thought, "Hm, this seems like a good place to stop. Let's make a town! It's even possible we'll survive!"
Blippy.com. Where you can see what your friends are buying. Oh HAI, Big Brother! I didn't see you watching there!
The massage therapist worked the kink out of my neck, which I'm pretty sure was a direct result of hunching up in anger at work. It feels fantastic. Just in time for me to go back to hunching tomorrow.
While I was at the spa I was reading Women's Health, because I like to pretend I'm skinny and fit in addition to being pampered. There was a blurb in there for MixMyGranola.com. Really?
The mag was from April so I figured MixMyGranola couldn't possibly be still in business, but there it is. I guess there are enough people that have the burning desire to tell their friends they have their breakfast cereal custom-made.
Rodent Playoff score this season: Me, 2, Mousies, 0.
I did the 30 day Shred yesterday. But today I went to the spa. I think that exempts me.
I didn't say it was logical.
I still don't have a Christmas tree. I have all the decorations I want for this years 'theme' (blue and silver and gunmetal grey), but it's been too frakkin' cold to go browse the vegetation. I seem to remember this happening last year, and it never did warm up at a convenient time so we ended up buying one of the last few on the last day the lot was open, and the weather was still unholy.
Whee! It's a Christmas tradition!
Also, and I can hardly believe this, but I've been spewing this nonsense for well over a year now. So, Random Tuesdays are pretty much a tradition. Go forth! And dazzle us with your shiny Christmas tidbits!
(Heh.)
Reader Comments (53)
My christmas tree is dying. Like seriously...kinda turning brown...and I water that MF'er like all the time. Stupid tree.
I always wondered about some of the unGodly places that cities sprung up. I can see logic behind some, but there are others that really do make no sense. It was like the convoy ran out of gas at that point!
I have no tree yet. I can't wait until January!!! :)
Oh i would so sign it for the spa treatment.. especially on this freakin' cold weather.. it's 32 degrees outside so I'm glad we picked the tree when there was 45 still:) and no, i was not bragging at all:P ha ha :)
But last year we picked the tree on the Christmas Night.. oh the horror. The car didn't work so we had to drag the tree home all the way... needless to say we were the only crazy people on the streets that night and the last ones to buy a tree seconds before it was shoved into the shredder:)
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At this rate, there may not be a need to put a tree up.
I, for one, am happy that you've kept the Random Tuesday Thoughts going. Keep it up for another year. Heck, even another 5 years. I enjoy reading yours for sure.
Yay for being relaxed. Wait until it warms up before you get your tree. Minus 41? Geesh!
Wow. I thought it was cold here, but I think you guys have us beat. :(
First of all, you and FoN...spa date? Suck it!
Plus I wonder sometimes why my family couldn't have "set up shop" somewhere like Southern California instead of the windy city...wtf? I wonder how different my life would be.
Wow. I'm so happy to have found you. Another mom out there with a sailormouth. Yay. Now I don't feel so alone in the world. love the blog. happy holly days - hope the spa treatment lasts for a good, long while.
I'm sorry, did you say -41? Because I think I just had a seizure at the thought of that temperature. Here in Oklahoma we're residing at a balmy 8 degrees for today, and I really thought about bitching about it for a second until my brain started SEIZING UP at the thought of MINUS FORTY ONE. Do thermometers even capture that temperature?!
I won't tell you it's going to be in the 50's (+50 Fahrenheit which is like a thousand degrees Celcius or something, isn't it?) Oh, wait, too late.
A day at the spa with FoN? I'm jealous. I want to be relaxed and smell like mangos and chocolate, too.
Way to start those 'traditions' early - might as well make it an annual event. ;)
Happy RTT! :)
I am such a health food dork. I am checking out the custom granola now.
::sigh:: I miss junk food with its many preservatives that I am allergic too.
I have an unused gift cert. for a massage from like 3 years ago... think its still good??
That Blippy thing is fucked.
Happy Random Tuesday Anniversary and thank you for sharing. I don't do it as good as you, but I sure look forward to it.
Ps. Thanks for rubbing the spa thing in our faces, hehhee.
That is cold! I justunwrapped my tree on the front porch. We bought it in the pouring rain on Sunday and just plopped it on the porch to dry out. You're not to far behind us.
Spa day sounds way better than the shred.
I like this tradition. It is the only reason I look forward to Tuesdays.
Oh yeah, and what about New Orleans. Who thought it would be a good idea to build a city in a hole in the ground where you are attacked by hurricanes??? The French, that's who. So that should tell you something right there.
Happy Birthday to RTT! Many more to come I hope. There is not end to random.
Minus 41. Are you still required to go to work? Shouldn't you be in hibernation or something?
I have a Fitness magazine subscription. It makes me feel athletic.
Spa days sound nice except for the people touching you and all.
That is way too cold for human life. It also makes me wonder where these mice are coming from. They must be polar mice or abominable snow mice.
I'm allergic to mango so I'll just keep my distance.
That is some serious cold. I'd have someone deliver my tree. My sister-in-law would do that every year and I thought it was stupid, but you get an exemption.
Spa days do exempt you from the Shred, but it doesn't exempt you from the calories. When they find something that does, they will charge quadruple the value, and I will pay every penny and smile.
Here's a Christmas tidbit, my halloween pumpkin is still on the porch. What? Who the heck actually uses the front door? Not I.
Custom made cereal? Really? So if I mix cocoa crispies and coco puffs I could make a living by it?
IF you'd like to sign up, just email me and send me gobs of money.
Happy Tuesday (don't freeze mmk? Cause Tuesdays are the days I live for.)
Going to the spa totally exempts you from working out. It would negate all the work the masseuse did. Good luck with the Christmas tree. I don't know that a Christmas tree is worth facing the bitter cold. Why can't they sell trees inside, where it is warm?
Minus 41?! I'm putting on extra layers just thinking about that!!
Ooh...the spa. I'm getting my hair done today. That's spa enough for me!