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It is widely documented that I have a 10 degree comfort zone. If it’s between 68 and 78 degrees, I am just fine, thank you very much. Any lower and I break out a sweater (thank you Hashimoto’s). Any higher and I am uncomfortable and bordering on grumpy. Needless to say, with temps in the 90s here lately, there has been a bit of grumpiness. Thank God we bought a portable air conditioner last year or Tater Tot and I would have been living in the air conditioned grocery store down the street this week!

Thankfully, the forecast says it’s supposed to be in the mid-70s today. Well within my weather wimp-ey comfort zone. Hey, this is why we live in Southern California as opposed to Northern California or some other state that has weather extremes. Of course we pay for that privilege but…we’re happy here.

Best of all, Tater Tot has been letting me put a fan in her room the past two nights so I don’t worry as much about her when I put her to sleep. And now with the temps cooling down, she won’t wake up all sweaty and cranky from her nap! What a bonus!

Weather is one of the reasons we moved back down to Southern California from Northern California. “Why?” you ask. “The San Francisco area has quite nice weather.” you say. No, no, no. San Francisco is not Northern California. We lived waaaaay up in Northern California. It seems so odd to me that people think that SF is NorCal when it’s really CentralCal. We lived far enough up in CA that we were almost in Oregon. It rained. A LOT. It was cold. A LOT. The ocean never gets above 55 degrees even in the summer. Surfing is done in 5mm wetsuits with booties, hoods, gloves, thermal rash guards and any other concoction of warmth-inducing paraphernalia you can cook up! We once surfed in 45 degree water when it was 45 degrees outside. Ouch! Can you say “ice cream headache”? I used to know it was time to get out of the water when I couldn’t feel my feet anymore. When I’d go to take my booties off, my hand muscles wouldn’t work well enough to pull them down over my ankles. Brrrrr. Give me 70 degree water any day! Not that I’ve been getting in it any time recently…