The weather’s been on the cold, near-freezing side in SoCal. Quite unusual since we typically face 70+degree (F) weather throughout most the year. I don’t think I could brave the colder climates in a lot of the northern and eastern contiguous states (and Alaska) and I’ve compiled a short list of reasons I would not ever manage in cold weather … or a list among many lists that proves I am a wuss:

1. Inside vs. Outside
   My body has the most difficult time adjusting to extreme temperatures. The drastic shift from extremely cold to hot-cocoa-by-the-fire hot does not bode well with my body, so much so that one time when I went skiing up in the mountains, I broke out into strange hives when we went back to the ski lodge. I blame it on the blasted temperature shift.
2. Snow
   It snowed one time in the Inland Empire, back in 2004 - I even submitted a photo to weather.com on that historical day. Actually, it has probably snowed numerous times, but in the span of time I’ve lived in the IE, it has only snowed once. Anyhow, it was enchanting waking up to a winter wonderland, but that enchantment ended when I walked out into the blistering cold and nearly lost all feeling in my fingers. Imagine the horror I felt if my fingers couldn’t fing!
3. I have horrible hat/scarf head.
   It’s a simple truth. Put a scarf on my head and I either resemble a teletubby or the spawn of Satan - but those two are one and the same. I briefly remember sharing my scarf-head dilemma this to a woman at the customer service counter at Kohls and she said her daughter had the same issue with scarves, save for the bit about the whole spawn-of-Satan thing.