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I didn't know it was possible to be this cold without being dead. The bones in my face ache. I made the idiotic decision to walk home from the pool today...I thought, Hey, it's ten degrees, but if I walk fast I'll get warm, right? It's about three and a half miles and usually takes me 50 minutes to walk home. Well, what I failed to take into account was the wind chill factor. The temperature with the wind chill was -16. And if I had bothered to check the weather before I left I would have seen the advisories that in exposing oneself to today's weather, one runs the risk of frostbite and hypothermia. Well, okay, I was wearing my L.L. Bean knee-length down coat that my dad bought me, which is supposed to keep you warm down to -17. So I was warm from neck to knee, but my legs, hands and face will never be the same. Especially my face. And I had my scarf wrapped around my head so only my eyes showed. I couldn't breathe, but then again it was too cold to breathe anyway. I've been inside for 20 minutes and I still can't feel my face. It's like when you wake up in the middle of the night and have been laying on your hand and it is completely asleep and you can't move even one single muscle and you poke at it with your other hand and it feels like you're poking someone else's hand. I've got that. It feels like I'm poking someone else's face.
My ears were the only part of my body that kept full circulation. I was wearing my brother's noise canceling headphones. They are so much warmer than ear muffs. But now I really do understand why anyone other than a burglar would buy a ski mask. I'm going to buy one.
My ears were the only part of my body that kept full circulation. I was wearing my brother's noise canceling headphones. They are so much warmer than ear muffs. But now I really do understand why anyone other than a burglar would buy a ski mask. I'm going to buy one.