Scales and Tales

A while ago, kass gave me five questions to answer, and I'm finally getting around to them! Not necessarily in order.

4. What is your favorite thing about this time of year where you live?

The short answer to this question is - not much!

Any temperature below 60 degrees F is too cold for me, and more than 10 inches of Water From The Sky per year is excessive by my measure. (I'm a desert native, is it obvious?) I hate being cold, and I hate being precipitated upon; fall/winter in my locale is pretty much six months of exactly that. I spend pretty much all of it complaining about my house's lack of insulation and my heating bill, and not wanting to get up in the mornings because it's dark.

The primary upsides are Christmas and cats.

Christmas foods, Christmas presents, and Christmas decorations are things I enjoy, in various degrees. Even Christmas music can be nice. (Horrible pop-music renditions of secular Christmas or "Christmas" songs in shops, however, are a plague.) On the fannish side, there's Yuletide, and my annual tea mailing/card exchange! I really miss the days of LJ's holiday wishlist comm, too; every year I find myself wondering if I could track down whomever created it and take it over, or just start another one. It was such a wonderful part of the season!

Cats are the other upside to the season: when it's cold in the house, the cats get cuddly. :D I've spent the last two nights with them draped over my legs on the sofa, whereas during the warmer months they tend to spend the evenings in their armchair instead of atop me.


(This reminds me: I need to make a cats post!)