Whoa, just under the wire for a Monday entry in ye olde web log.
Well today I want to discuss my wardrobe. Yes I do know it's winter. No I am not cold. Yes I do own long pants but prefer shorts. No I do not think I am Jimmy Buffet (he has much more money). The sandals stay on till it starts snowing and then it becomes a judgement call. I don't care if the hawaiian shirt is too loud for your taste and inappropriate for the weather..
You see I tend to keep myself in a permanent Margarittaville, at least mentally. When everyone else is freezing around me in twice as much clothing, I am talking to Romeo fleming about the Lizards football team's upcoming season in a little diner on Snake Bite Key while Aurora Porter (or her sister Bora Alice) pours me a cup of tea. It's all mental. Sure many a time even I don't have the strength in my mind to keep out the -20 degree windchill. But I try and I have a lot of training.
See the basement apartment in which I live in is usually about 65 degrees year round. I keep tons of blankets for guests but personally I run around in my boxers (if that) and still feel hot. So the weather we are currently feeling is simple for me.
Now don't get me wrong. When I do decide that mother nature has finally gotten the better of me (took a blizzard one year), I dress warm and sensible, all the way down to my thermals. But that is only after She and I do our little tug of war every winter.
The only other reason I dress "off season" is to keep people guessing. Longs pants on a 90 degree day and shorts on a 30 degree day. In one bar I worked, customers used to have betting pools on what I was going to wear. So I suppose it is a bit of a hold over from the bartending days when you would do crazy things just to keep people coming back. But the real reason is because I want to. I am who I am. I really don't care too much about other peopls opinions. I like being comfortable and that is confortable to me. Plus in my heart I long to be in a tropical paradise such as Snake Bite Key, Heat Wave, Louisiana.
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