things to do at fifty below…

 

 

 

Most of you know that I live in Alaska. For real, no foolin. It gets cold. Cuz, yanno, it’s Alaska. There are snaps every winter of -20, -20, -40, -50, degrees (F) .. it’s, well, cold. THIS winter, it’s been alternating between -45 for a week and then 20 or 30 degrees for a week, back and forth, really irritating… makes the roads slicker than you can imagine, because the warm weather melts some of the snow over the roads and then it gets cold again and freezes in layered sheets, on the road. Which you then have to drive on. Because, in Alaska, we don’t close up shop for temperatures or snow… if we did, everything would be closed from November to March. 

SO, when it gets this cold, people plug their cars in (no, they aren’t electric cars.) and hunker down indoors, unless they HAVE to go somewhere.

SO! Things to do at fifty below:

Read the same children’s books over and over and over and over and over and over…
DO NOT TAKE NAPS.
Plays the drums really loudly, with a really repetitive loop track in the background, forEVER.
Unfold all of the laundry in your dresser and throw it on the ground.
Stuff trash and snack wrappers into nooks and crannies in your play room.
Watch every episode of iCarly EVER MADE.
Feed the fish every two hours.
Eat a million snacks.
Complain about your homework, making it take two hours rather than a half hour.
Pour the contents of a water bottle onto the carpet and play in the soggy carpeting.
Fold laundry. Over and over.
Bake cookie bars.
Run around in your underwear for three days.
Vacuum.
Make tea.
Have incredibly long, incredibly ridiculous conversations on facebook about hot Disney characters.
Bitch and moan.
Turn the heat up in vain.
Juggle cats.

Okay, not the last one.

OR, there’s always McDonald’s, if you have any money, which, we don’t. We need out of the house SO BAD. CURSE YOU, THREE DAY WEEKEND!

~Me