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D'accord [okay], let me just put this out there – I think I’ve gone ape-shit bonkers …. I believe there are bats in the belfry!!!!

Let me explain ….. mais [but] first some background ….. I was born and grew up in Southern California – specifically Palm Springs and San Diego. Because of this, according to my internal body thermostat, I have always been cold when the temperature begins to drop the slightest bit or there is a breeze … I can think of a picture of me at the beach with another person who was in his bathing suit and I was wearing pants and a sweatshirt jacket …. I used to snow ski every winter in Salt Lake City and thought it was freezing there …. So what in the heck has happened to me?

When I arrived in Paris in September the temperatures were in the mid-60’s (if I remember correctly), I’d wear a light sweater when I was out and about and sometimes that was even too much …. Most of October was the same but maybe changing sometimes to my sweatshirt jacket (yeah, I know – not very ‘Paris like’ in this haute couture capitol) … November and December were pretty much highs of mid-50’s and lows in the high to mid-40’s … I’d wear a scarf and a winter jacket – but if the sun was shining it was really hot …. I kept asking (whom you wonder? Nobody in particular – just rhetorically) “when is it going to get cold” and I kept hoping that “maybe in January it will start to get cold so I can see what it’s like to live somewhere cold” ….. (which of course makes no sense at all, since I was usually cold in San Diego!)

During my 4 ½ months here, I always have my apartment windows open – whether it’s raining or not, no matter what the temperature is … I’ve only turned on my heater (old fashion radiator) a few times – once back in the fall when I was really sick and had a fever, and a couple of times to take the chill off the air if I’ve had the windows open all day – heck, the buildings don’t even turn on the heat for the radiators until October – that’s it! … I really haven’t needed to heat my apartment.

Donc [so] now it’s January and the temperatures are definitely dropping – the highs are in the high 30’s and the lows in the low 30’s or high 20’s …. And my windows are still open!!!!!!!! As an example, today the range per AccuWeather is the high of 4 C and the low will be -3 C (that is high 38 F and low 27 F) as I write this it is 1 C (34 F, ... remember, 32 F is the freezing point) ….. And I’m perfectly comfortable …..

What the heck is wrong with me? I’d like to blame it on menopause but that boat sailed a long, long time ago …. So I’m ‘post’ on that front …… it can’t be because I’m getting older, because in my years of observation as you get older you wear more sweaters and jackets when it’s 90 degrees (F) outside …. Can’t be because I could stand to lose a few pounds – I had more to lose when I was in the States …. The only thing I can think of is what I started this blog with …. I think I’ve gone ape-shit bonkers and now have bats in the belfry!

le temps ici est délicieux, faire de la neige, faire de la neige, faire de la neige