Frozen toes and football

Boy was it cold last night. Even though we all had cold weather gear, such as coats, hats, mittens and even blankets it was still very cold at the football game. The complaint voiced by most was that their feet were freezing or that they couldn't feel their toes. The low was reported at 28. I don't care who you are, that's cold. Especially if you are sitting on aluminum bleachers. Of course it helps if your team wins, like ours did last night. The final score was 52-22 so we will be going to the next round of playoffs. If we should win this next playoff game, then we will play for the state title. It's a very exciting time for our students. I just wish it wasn't quite so cold for these games.

I thought I'd never thaw out last night. The heat on the bus didn't seem to include the floor area, so after suffering with cold feet at the game, there was little relief on the bus ride home. Of course once I got into the car I cranked the heat up, but that only went a little way toward thawing me out. Once I got home I crawled into bed with my two pair of socks still on. I even turned the heated mattress pad on for a couple of hours. Some time around 2:30 I think I finally got warm enough. Jacqueline stated that she intended to turn on her electric blanket when she went to bed. The only one of us that didn't complain too much of being cold was Jeremy. He tends to be warm when the rest of us aren't.

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us it's time to put up our Christmas Tree. I have to re-arrange the living room a little in order for our tree to fit and the kids and I worked on that some today. We will probably finish the re-arranging and put the tree up tomorrow. We will then take our time decorating it, probably over the course of a week. There are already many houses in our area that have their Christmas decorations up. We don't do anything in the yard, as I do not care for most yard decorations. I would love to have some lights on the outside of the house, but that will have to wait for another year, since the lights I had purchased for that purpose were stolen from our storage.

It's raining here now, and has been sprinkling on and off most of the day. I'll be glad when this front moves out of here, because I've had a headache for two days now. Some people have old bone injuries that will ache when rain is coming, but I will often get a sinus headache when a low pressure system is approaching. Not as accurate as today's modern weatherman, because I don't get a headache each and every time it's going to rain, just most of the time. Unfortunately, when I have a headache that is related to the barometric pressure medicine only takes the edge off of the headache, it doesn't offer real relief. Relief won't come completely until the front passes and the barometric pressure rises again.