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It cracks me up. I mean, there I am in North Carolina for Christmas and the weather guy on TV is talking about how balmy it is. "The temperature right now is certainly warm for the holidays -- nearly 60 degrees!" he says. And I'm wearing a turtle neck and two layers over it.
I fly home to Fort Lauderdale the next day and click on the weather and our guy here is saying, "The deep freeze will continue for at least another 24 hours or so -- lows down in the 50s!" It's all perspective, isn't it? And after five days away, my perspective is, once again, "Hey, I like it better here!"
I go away to some place like Raleigh and it's fine and everything. Very pretty landscape. But there's too many syllables in the words people speak. ("So ya'll wah-ant mo-ah coffee?") Ok, I'm nitpicking. But it feels good to be home, where I'm now sitting this morning at my computer in toasty comfort -- not too hot, not too cold. Just right, as Goldilocks once wisely noted.
And now I'm ready to get toasted in another way -- New Year's Eve is almost upon us and I'm glad to be back here for it. I'm taking a very lovely lady to the Tut exhibit on New Year's Eve day -- what better way to see in a whole new year than to reflect on something so magnificently old?
That evening, we're going to sit around my fireplace (real wood, thank you!) with romantic music, and toasting the New Year with a nice French champagne, stone crabs with mustard sauce and great truffles and...well, you get the idea, I suppose.
I'll leave the big downtown party to others this year, though it's always fun. Getting out for a while to the exhibit, staying in for a while by the fire -- it all sounds to me, yep, just right.
So from toasty Fort Lauderdale, a clink of the glass to you all. (Y'all??) Happy New Year!
And if the low temp hits anywhere near 60 degrees this weekend, I'll be putting on my turtle neck again. I don't care what they think in North Carolina.
I fly home to Fort Lauderdale the next day and click on the weather and our guy here is saying, "The deep freeze will continue for at least another 24 hours or so -- lows down in the 50s!" It's all perspective, isn't it? And after five days away, my perspective is, once again, "Hey, I like it better here!"
I go away to some place like Raleigh and it's fine and everything. Very pretty landscape. But there's too many syllables in the words people speak. ("So ya'll wah-ant mo-ah coffee?") Ok, I'm nitpicking. But it feels good to be home, where I'm now sitting this morning at my computer in toasty comfort -- not too hot, not too cold. Just right, as Goldilocks once wisely noted.
And now I'm ready to get toasted in another way -- New Year's Eve is almost upon us and I'm glad to be back here for it. I'm taking a very lovely lady to the Tut exhibit on New Year's Eve day -- what better way to see in a whole new year than to reflect on something so magnificently old?
That evening, we're going to sit around my fireplace (real wood, thank you!) with romantic music, and toasting the New Year with a nice French champagne, stone crabs with mustard sauce and great truffles and...well, you get the idea, I suppose.
I'll leave the big downtown party to others this year, though it's always fun. Getting out for a while to the exhibit, staying in for a while by the fire -- it all sounds to me, yep, just right.
So from toasty Fort Lauderdale, a clink of the glass to you all. (Y'all??) Happy New Year!
And if the low temp hits anywhere near 60 degrees this weekend, I'll be putting on my turtle neck again. I don't care what they think in North Carolina.
posted by LauderBLOGGER at 1:26 PM
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