Not in a ‘Oh poor shivering Texans it is 55 degrees‘ kinda way.
More of a ‘How can Texas be so cold?‘ kinda way.
I know that I am not getting any sympathy from Northern readers, but you have to remember that there is a reason I live in Texas…it is warm. There are sacrifices I make during the summer (enduring 32 straight days above 100) so that I can snicker at snow and ice during the winter.
Snow? HA!
Ice? Tee hee!
And because it is warm the houses are built to maximize A/C.
And because it is warm the houses are built to create air flow.
And because it is warm the houses are provided with heat as an afterthought.
This results in climate zones across the house. My closet must be the North Pole. It is definitely penguin-ready. My master bedroom is Canada. Blog-Stedman’s office is the Northern states. The living room is the Southern states including Texas. The kitchen must be situated smack dab on top of the equator…where did I put away that fan?
It seems nice to be able to travel the world in just a few steps…
*cough*
The problem is that you have to dress differently for each zone. This results in various layers of warmth strewn across the house.
Going to the kitchen? Don’t forget the sunscreen.
Going to watch a little TV? You might need a sweater.
And Don’t even THINK of entering my closet without a scarf and snow boots…It has been cold here this week.
Not in a ‘Oh poor shivering Texans it is 55 degrees‘ kinda way.
More of a ‘How can Texas be so cold?‘ kinda way.
I know that I am not getting any sympathy from Northern readers, but you have to remember that there is a reason I live in Texas…it is warm. There are sacrifices I make during the summer (enduring 32 straight days above 100) so that I can snicker at snow and ice during the winter.
Snow? HA!
Ice? Tee hee!
And because it is warm the houses are built to maximize A/C.
And because it is warm the houses are built to create air flow.
And because it is warm the houses are provided with heat as an afterthought.
This results in climate zones across the house. My closet must be the North Pole. It is definitely penguin-ready. My master bedroom is Canada. Blog-Stedman’s office is the Northern states. The living room is the Southern states including Texas. The kitchen must be situated smack dab on top of the equator…where did I put away that fan?
It seems nice to be able to travel the world in just a few steps…
*cough*
The problem is that you have to dress differently for each zone. This results in various layers of warmth strewn across the house.
Going to the kitchen? Don’t forget the sunscreen.
Going to watch a little TV? You might need a sweater.
And Don’t even THINK of entering my closet without a scarf and snow boots…
Not in a ‘Oh poor shivering Texans it is 55 degrees‘ kinda way.
More of a ‘How can Texas be so cold?‘ kinda way.
I know that I am not getting any sympathy from Northern readers, but you have to remember that there is a reason I live in Texas…it is warm. There are sacrifices I make during the summer (enduring 32 straight days above 100) so that I can snicker at snow and ice during the winter.
Snow? HA!
Ice? Tee hee!
And because it is warm the houses are built to maximize A/C.
And because it is warm the houses are built to create air flow.
And because it is warm the houses are provided with heat as an afterthought.
This results in climate zones across the house. My closet must be the North Pole. It is definitely penguin-ready. My master bedroom is Canada. Blog-Stedman’s office is the Northern states. The living room is the Southern states including Texas. The kitchen must be situated smack dab on top of the equator…where did I put away that fan?
It seems nice to be able to travel the world in just a few steps…
*cough*
The problem is that you have to dress differently for each zone. This results in various layers of warmth strewn across the house.
Going to the kitchen? Don’t forget the sunscreen.
Going to watch a little TV? You might need a sweater.
And Don’t even THINK of entering my closet without a scarf and snow boots…
I love it – you could open a theme park in your house!
Best of luck with the costume changes…
Now I will laugh and think of you every time I complain about the drafty window in my artic walk-in closet.
My house has no insulation (in Indiana…gotta LOVE old houses)…and the floor RADIATES cold. BUT, if you want to get warm, head on into the sauna…I mean main bathroom. It’s always the warmest (or coldest in the summer) room in the house. IT’s the only insulated room, and has no windows!
I have some sympathy for you only because you are not used to it, but I live in OH so my sympathy just froze whilst walking through your closet!
I felt the same way yesterday, complaining to my dad about my 38 degree day (it’s a damp cold) while he’s in Minnesota where it’s 11 below. Hey, he wanted to live there!
Ha Ha see there is something to be said about my little house IT is preety much the same temp until night when the wind blows and the 1965 windows in the boys rooms don’t so much keep the wind out so jason and I are sweating and they have 4 blankets and footy pjs on.. It is alot cooler now that we have wooden floors nad I thought the hermit crabs froze last night not good.
I like the new look. My house is the same and I live in NYC. Its -10 and Im still running the a/c in the bedroom
Boy that’s the truth~ Add our concrete floors on top of that and it’s just nuts! I’m sitting at Reese’s little circle table IN FRONT of the fireplace b/c the heater says it’s warm enough, but not where I am!
gosh, our homes must have been designed by the same guy. it’s great in the summer, but such a pain in the cold months. we’ve got fans all over the house trying to move the heat into rooms where we actually hang out.
Yeah, I feel for ya. I live in Pennsylvania. It’s a known fact that it’s going to get cold in the winter. But we recently bought a house with heat vents in the ceiling (heat hovers above our heads) and no heat source at all in the kitchen. I don’t know what we were thinking…cute little, affordable house. Who needs heat??? We are freezing our butts off! The cats won’t come out of the attic. I’m holed up in the bedroom – the warmest room in the house.