Random winter rants.

Brace yourselves, the cold is coming.

Scratch that, it's already arrived. As I write this, I'm holed up in my bedroom with a portable heater because I'm too cheap to heat the whole apartment up when I'm alone. Sometime today I'm going to have to go out of my room to do the dishes and put the laundry to wash, but not right now. Brrr.

Summer went by too quickly. I'm not quite ready to break out my scarves and jackets yet. One of the things I deplore about the cold is how I'll look the same every day because my big jacket/sweater is all that's visible no matter how dressed up I am beneath that layer. The monotony gets to me. =P I've also started moisturizing my legs more regularly now because I can totally feel the eczema itching to present itself. Haha pun but eczema is NOT funny. Not funny at all. Not that it really matters - even when there aren't any eczema patches on my legs, I have multiple bruises at any given time anyway. If you were wondering about the bruises, no, JW isn't a wife-beater. =P I'm just really clumsy, and the topical corticosteroid I've used for my eczema since last winter probably thinned my skin so it bruises much easier now. As of the present, I have 5 bruises adorning my sorry limbs. I'll never have smooth, sexy legs. C'est la vie.

I also don't really want to think of how I'm going to walk the dogs at the animal shelter when the weather gets even colder. I don't think the DOGS themselves would want to go out in that kinda freezing weather. I wonder if they get mufflers and little dog sweaters to tide them over the winter. Mum used to dress Inky in a shirt during the cold, rainy evenings in Kuching, but that's tropical rainforest weather and nothing compared to the vicious cold here. *shrugs*

It's times like these you really appreciate having a manservant. JW totally spoils me - I can ask him to do virtually anything and he'll do it for me. He considers it his manly duty to brave the cold to take out the trash, and I have half a mind to ask him to do the laundry as well, since that involves going outside and driving to the laundry facility. =P But I'm a considerate, hard-working (ahem) wife so I'll probably just do it myself and then gripe about it later on and make him tell me what a wonderful wife I am. And he considers himself lucky because he hasn't had to change the toilet paper or vacuum the house in months. Equal partnership my foot. Going out in the cold trumps ALL of that! But don't tell him what I said, let him remain in his blissful ignorance. =P

The perks of married life, ahh. Okay now I have to layer up and do some household chores. Bye.

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