COLD, VANITY - AND A LESSON LEARNED

@Lupita234 No for me when you are a anemia.

From the pictures, your outfits seem reasonably warm

she's in the Caribbean, but i guess they're tropical like us. i think i would like climate like yours. i was never interested in snow.

I am from the Caribbean - mostly - sea, sand and sun. My first time in North America came about when I took a position at my country's High Commission in New York.

@hereandthere & @Kandae11 I get the feeling that both of you would find it way too dry here, we have a very arid climate. I'd have to drive over 150 miles to get to any kind of lake, even the Rio Grande is bone dry most of the time.

@Kandae11 Its what you are used to so its only natural for you to be that way. Its very cold here sometimes so I can wear too much clothing and its still cold of a night.

Here in the Caribbean I usually wear the minimum amount of clothing I can when I am at home - and when I go out - I dress as cool as possible. I suppose that is the reason why I rebelled against wearing too many pieces of clothing on my first day out in NYC.

The office where I went to work should have been in the South then.

@Kandae11 It can also go over your head if necessary

@Jeanniemaries I was actually bare headed at the time.

Oh yes, a scarf would be a necessary item .

You seem to be wearing a scarf in your profile picture - which is necessary, I think.

@manasamanu I haven't seen that series.

@Kandae11 That's not me, its Benedict Cumberbatch, from Sherlock Holmes(the series)

You got that right.

@Kandae11 I am even wearing a cap inside right now and wear a cap when I go to bed.

No, I didn't - more foolish of me - especially with the hairstyle I wore.

@1hopefulman Is it cold in your house?

@Kandae11 My folks had advised me about what I should take along with me. And I listened to them

Unlike you - I was ill prepared.

Unfortunately, yes.

@Kandae11 no its not bad. We might get 5 cold days a year but never cold enough to make frost on the ground.

I guess the South isn't too bad during the winter months.

Whenever I visit a cold country again I will know.

@Kandae11 I did describe my adventure, both on Bubbs and here. I can copy the bubble into a pm or an email, if you want and let you read it. I believe I deleted the discussion when I left myLot last year. (I just reviewed all my discussions extant and yes, that one is no longer available on myLot.) I like temperatures at a nice mid-range, also. (Actually, I prefer it around 60 degrees (F) which is a bit chilly for most people. That is the temperature I keep my house at summer and winter. My daughter keeps a heater running in her bedroom to hold temp there at 80 degrees (F) and wears an electric blanket in the rest of the house. She plugs it in every time she stops somewhere. LMAO!) At 60 degrees (F) I am usually dressed in polyester shorts and nothing else. When people come over for the first time you can see them get cold before they even step into the house... (really giggling out loud!) I drove out to California to get away from problems at home for a few days. I had never been more than a couple hundred miles from where I was born before that, so the drive out to California was an adventure in and of itself. (I wrote a series of bubbles about the trip out, what I did and what I discovered about myself while there and started home.) I wasn't drinking enough water or liquids of any type, so became dehydrated. That became much worse when I drove into the Painted Desert. (I began to hallucinate.) I needed to use a rest room, but was miles from one so I pulled off the Interstate and drove down a dirt road. I found a friendly tree and visited with it for a few minutes. When I turned from the tree, I heard my car make an unfortunate sound. It decided to "water the Earth", too! (No, the antifreeze it dumped didn't kill anything. I was in the middle of the freaking desert! That tree was the only plant I found for miles around!) I fixed the radiator hose and put antifreeze and water into my car and started it back up. (Yes, that was the last water I had with me. It was actually the ice that had been in my drinks cooler melted... ) When I went to head back to the interstate, I discovered another problem... One not as easily fixed as the hose was. My car dug down into the sand. I dug my car out three times, but made no progress. It simply dug deeper into the sand every time I tried to drive out. Finally, the frame of my Daytona was firmly on the desert floor. I wasn't driving my Dodge out without help! This happened when I was 28 (I think?) so cell phones were just being tested. I had a bag phone with me, but no signal. That was no help! Have I bored you enough with this story, now? (gentle smile, ) You will learn not to ask me to tell you how things happen to me. (just sayin!))

@DaddyEvil Very interesting reading - I will be looking forward to part 2 - probably in a pm.

Oh wow! - are you sure you aren't an alien? - just kidding. That incident took place a number of years ago - now I never get colds-- since I started eating really healthy. I also do not feel cold easily- but visiting a cold country for the first time after being accustomed to the Caribbean weather-- I was knocked for a six. How did you get lost in the dessert? You should write something about your adventure. Simply cool weather would be fine with me - I don't like it hot, nor cold.

It is always best to take the advice of those who know.

That is true.

@Kandae11 at times i don't mind to wear double socks too.

After that first experience, I was no longer bothered about bulk.

@Kandae11 Yes we all have to learn that lesson Kandase.

Lesson learned.

@Kandae11 I don't put on a lot of clothing in winter - I still wear just jeans and a t-shirt in the house.

I would find it tiresome putting on and talking off so many items of clothing - but at least it isn't all the year around - you have spring, summer and fall before winter rolls around again.

It certainly is.

@Kandae11 yap.!

I don't like extremes - whether hot or cold.