Getting back to normal after extreme weather

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So last Sunday the spouse and I bought loads of groceries so we wouldn't have to go out in the foul weather that was predicted. Although this is not very good self-management, I basically did nothing but watch tv and play on the computer for the next four days. They weren't even delivering the mail on Wednesday and Thursday, and most government offices, and my bank, were shut down. I acted like a bear in hibernation.

Today the high temperature is above zero (Fahrenheit) for a change. I shook myself from ursine torpor and DID stuff:

2 loads of laundry
actually got dressed!
went to exercise class
made fruit jello for later today
made a hearty lunch of roast pork, gravy, whipped potatoes, broccoli, and applesauce

This is more than I did all week!

How did you break your winter slumber? (if indeed you did... or are even in the same hemisphere)

Pretty much sounds like this past Tuesday and Wednesday for me. The sun showed up a bit and the wind died down on Thursday, and I warmed up the truck and got out for an hour and I was tired. Hibernation was nice for a short time, today I feel like getting out a bit more. Even though it's 16 outside, it feels a lot warmer than the past few days.

I prefer taking the dogs for at least a long walk every day. But with the low temperatures, it was impossible to do it safely, even bundled up. So as soon as the temperatures returned to a safe range again, we took the dogs on a long walk through the neighborhood, then to play at the dog park and pet stores, then took my Service Dog to several stores to keep his public access training sharp.

We'd missed the last weekly weigh-in - my sister's dog needs to lose weight for health reasons and my dog needs to maintain his weight for work, so we monitor it closely - so we got the dogs weighed and then they got their dental chews.

While we were in town, we refreshed our grocery supplies and, since it was our birthday, my twin sister and I ran around to different restaurants, taking advantage of several free birthday deals.

Then at home, while the dogs were tired, we trimmed and filed the dogs' nails.

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31st of July, 2013
Diagnosed: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Auditory-Verbal Processing Speed Disorder, and Visual-Motor Processing Speed Disorder.

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*looks like I'm the third Michigander posting in this thread*

Stayed in my apartment, I went grocery shopping today and it seemed like EVERYONE was at the stores at once...

On the flip side of the world, its extremely hot with 38’c with hot winds and a total fire ban. Hibernating away from the heat. It sucks the life, if you have to go outside. I’m somewhat sensitive to temperature change. In Australia it can be 40’ celcius one day and 16 the next, that’s hard for me.

And in another part of Aus it's been raining for a week and still going.
Got no drier, hanging clothes in house, everything smells of mould.
Got no food left and too flooded to get to the shops, which are probably out of food too, as the highway's been shut for days.

Doing better than some, though - still got a dry house and power.

My sympathies to those dealing with extreme heat as well as extreme cold. People can die from either. Some years ago, over 600 people in Chicago died during a heat wave, many of them elderly living alone.

Nowadays, we have "cooling centers" as well as "warming shelters" to especially help the homeless or anyone whose homes don't function well in extremes. In my city, homeless shelters which have a maximum occupancy relaxed their rule during this extreme cold and let anybody come in who needed protection. These facts are encouraging signs that society does care for those less fortunate.

It is so nice to hear when society shows compassion to the less fortunate, BeaArthur.

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31st of July, 2013
Diagnosed: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Auditory-Verbal Processing Speed Disorder, and Visual-Motor Processing Speed Disorder.

Weak Emerging Social Communicator (The Social Thinking-­Social Communication Profile by Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke and Stephanie Madrigal)

"I am silently correcting your grammar."