I'm so cold!

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

It's been soooooooooo cold here lately and it's only getting colder the next few days! I thought I was kinda used to the weather here but I've been freezing my butt off the past two weeks.

On a funnier note:

Mom-in-law emailed this earlier.

MINNESOTA TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART

60° F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. Minnesotans sunbathe.

50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. Minnesotans plant gardens.

40° F: Italian & English cars won't start. Minnesotans drive with the

windows down.

32° F: Distilled water freezes. Crane Lake's water gets thicker.

20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.

Minnesotans throw on a flannel shirt.

15° F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. Minnesotans have the

last cookout before it gets cold.

0° F: All the people in Miami die. Minnesotans close the windows.

10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico. The Girl Scouts in

Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.

25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. Minnesotans get out their winter

parkas.

40° below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. Minnesotans let the

dogs sleep indoors.

100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Minnesotans get

frustrated because they can't start their cars.

460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin

scale). Minnesotans start saying, "cold 'nuff for ya?"

500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Vikings win the Super Bowl.

[payxibka 10,045]

Ummmm.... No it has not... This in fact has been a very warm winter (for Minnesota)... You are in for a surprise this weekend when the temperature drops to -25 to -30F.

[Ban Hammer 13,169]

500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Vikings win the Super Bowl.

[Savanphil 3]

It's not that bad here.....in Pennsylvania

Edited February 1, 2007 by Savanphil

[chelben 0]

It's not that bad here.....in Pennsylvania

wow...and i here cussing bout NYC

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

Ummmm.... No it has not... This in fact has been a very warm winter (for Minnesota)... You are in for a surprise this weekend when the temperature drops to -25 to -30F.

OK, well I've only lived here for two years...

Nevermind. >.<

[UmmSqueakster 54]

We usually have an average of 30 days below 0 each year. From what I've heard, February will make up for the lackluster performance thus far.

Oh, btw Raspberry, I was suppose to tell you where i get my baklava. Holy Land Groccery Store - Central Avenue Minneapolis - one stop shopping for ME food. Also, I'm not sure how similar Turkish food is to the traditional levant stuff, but Marina Grill and Deli on West University has an excellent buffett.

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

We usually have an average of 30 days below 0 each year. From what I've heard, February will make up for the lackluster performance thus far.

Oh, btw Raspberry, I was suppose to tell you where i get my baklava. Holy Land Groccery Store - Central Avenue Minneapolis - one stop shopping for ME food. Also, I'm not sure how similar Turkish food is to the traditional levant stuff, but Marina Grill and Deli on West University has an excellent buffett.

Oooooh!! Thanks for that!

I miss good ME food stuffs /cry. Well mostly my mom's food stuffs /more cry.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

http://www.holylandbrand.com/

I've found the meats there to be decent and the bread to be nearly always fresh out of the oven, but do check the expiration date on anything else. My husband found some bashmel mix that was expired, so he pointed it out to the store clerks. The next time we went back, they had the same bshmel packets, but with stickers over the expiration dates

Haven't had any negative experiences with Marina

http://www.zabihah.com/_details.php?rest_id=2613

Edited February 1, 2007 by rahma

[eap620 0]

So I guess I'm not allowed to keep complaining about the weather being in the 50's here!!!

I obviously have no concept to what real cold weather is like. Here in Austin, we had a cold front blow through a couple of weeks ago and it was like 30 degrees with some rain as well, so everything iced over and we had about 20 minutes of what we consider snow. The entire city and its surrounding towns completely shut down. Whenever I'm in TX and not Belize I substitute teach and the schools closed for like 3 days because that's how long it took for the ice to completely melt. I wasn't sure we were gonna make it

I feel for y'all in the cold places and I hope it gets better soon.

Hugs,

Erin

[almaty 19]

that was good stuff and true for folks from south dakota too

[Chiroman 0]

Dude! It snowed in North Carolina today! It was so pretty- it totally reminded me of canada! I heard a fun quote the other day saying that eastern north carolina was soooo cold, somebody left the door open to Canada! HAhahhahahaha...if they only knew what real snow and cold was!

[UmmSqueakster 54]

50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. Minnesotans plant gardens.

Heck, I'll start planting my tomatos once it doesn't go below 32 degrees at night. The heck with waiting until 50 degrees.

40° F: Italian & English cars won't start. Minnesotans drive with the

windows down.

I do this until it gets around freezing.

20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.

Minnesotans throw on a flannel shirt.

Definately light winter coat weather. No need for the heavy ones yet.

15° F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. Minnesotans have the

last cookout before it gets cold.

We were eying the bbq this last weekend for our lamb ribs. Decided against it because it was covered in snow.

0° F: All the people in Miami die. Minnesotans close the windows.

Our windows are still open for at least 15 minutes a day to get some fresh air circulating.

[ninamyers 0]

Cold is good - at least you can wrap up warm and go outside and play with the snow No seriously, that does sound a bit too cold for me. The coldest I've been in is -30 degrees centigrade (What's all this Faranheit stuff!) up a mountain in the alps, and that was pretty cold. My face froze if I remember correctly.

California's starting to get to me.. I don't think I was born to live in a sunny place. And I'm getting wrinkles from too much sun exposure haha

It did rain yesterday though.

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

http://www.holylandbrand.com/

I've found the meats there to be decent and the bread to be nearly always fresh out of the oven, but do check the expiration date on anything else. My husband found some bashmel mix that was expired, so he pointed it out to the store clerks. The next time we went back, they had the same bshmel packets, but with stickers over the expiration dates

Haven't had any negative experiences with Marina

http://www.zabihah.com/_details.php?rest_id=2613

I'm drooling as I'm going through their menu. I'm so there in the near future When it's not this COLD.

Did I mention it's cold?