I used to love cold weather. In my teen years, I wore flip flops every day during the New England winters. When I moved back to New England temporarily a while ago, people warned me: “Oh, those winters are cold.” I shrugged it off, saying, “Actually, I like the cold. It’s the hot, humid summers that bother me more.”<\/p>\n
How wrong I was. Or how times have changed. As a kid, I never understood old people retiring to Florida. Now I get it.<\/p>\n
The New England winter of ’13-’14 just about did me in. I hated it. The wind chill, the dry air, the power outages, the shoveling of snow and scraping of ice. It wasn’t fun any more.<\/p>\n
Now I’m back on the West Coast, and I’ve been going to Disneyland a lot (trying to make the most of my annual pass). Disney isn’t for everyone, but I like the Disney experience. It may not be the happiest<\/em> place on earth. Still, I’m usually happy when I go there.<\/p>\n This last time I went for New Year’s Eve, and it was cold and rainy at Disneyland—down into the low 30s Fahrenheit. It wasn’t fun. Sure, I went on the rides, ate the food. It just wasn’t nearly as fun… at all.<\/p>\n Maybe I’m just getting older. I’m really starting to appreciate warm weather now. I don’t see moving to Florida any time soon, but I now get it! Hawai’i wouldn’t be too bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to love cold weather. In my teen years, I wore flip flops every day during the New England winters. When I moved back to New England temporarily a while ago, people warned me: “Oh, those winters are cold.” I shrugged it off, saying, “Actually, I like the cold. It’s the hot, humid summers… Continue reading Baby, it’s cold outside…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[880,881,882,883,879],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cold-weather","tag-disney","tag-florida","tag-new-england","tag-warm-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}