It's freezing...

A bit of winter excitement for us right now as the temperature has dropped to around -50 C with the wind chill. This morning I wore two pairs of socks, long underwear plus two pairs of pants, a t-shirt, a sweater, a polar fleece and then my winter jacket, two pairs of mitts, two scarves, two hoods and a tuque. I left only the smallest crack around my eyes so I could see. In fact I don't think it was so much the cold that threatened my walk to work as my lack of vision.

Because of the blizzard yesterday there were a lot of deep snow drifts, so I sort of stumbled down the side walk. I felt safe though because I put on special ice grips over my boots before I left my house. I had been given these ice grips to test them for the Ice and Fire carnival I will be dancing in on the 16th. When I finally got to work with really only one minor delay caused by man with his snow blower on the sidewalk the walk had seemed pretty uneventful. However just after stepping inside I realized the ice grips were missing. My first thought was they did not pass the test for the carnival dancing and then because they weren't actually mine I decided I should do some back tracking and look for them. The sun then was much brighter and since they were black I figured it wouldn't take too long. That is until I realized that I had lost them just outside of my house about when I had been hurdling through a series of knee deep snow drifts. Perhaps it isn't fair to judge their inefficiency on the deep snow. In any case I got my fair share of exercise and cold weather this morning as I ended up having to walk to work twice.

In some ways the blizzard wind was actually much colder last night when I went to my dance class. While waiting at the bus stop I sort of hid in some bushes to stay out the wind. Then when I got downtown I walked down the street with my scarf covering my entire face and my mitts over top. I walked close to the buildings to stay in a straight line and moved quite quickly so as not to get too cold. Maybe I should have stayed home, but it seems much more exciting to be out in a storm.

Having finally caught some bugs on the weekend they have officially been identified today by the exterminator as bed bugs, so the next fun step is having the apartment exterminated.