<p>Does the hotel have a room with a bathtub? If not, get a shower cap and use the shower. Buying a heating pad to sit on/cuddle up with might help.</p>
<p>Late to school–how was the Carnegie Hall performance? his parents? her outfit?</p>
<p>I thought of her while reading about the FBI expert who was examining Steven Speilberg’s stolen Rockwell painting. Does your daughter still want to pursue art theft in the FBI?</p>
<p>We were in DC last weekend for two days of sightseeing. We dressed for weather in the mid-40’s (as the internet weather website had advised), but it was bitter cold, and it snowed the first two hours of our drive home…</p>
<p>Still, I’ll take cold over hot any day. I HATE summer! The heat and humidity just sap away my energy.</p>
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Oh, MEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOO!! :eek:</p>
<p>If you can get some of those hand warmers - they are sold in ski and sports stores, and some drug stores, those are great. I use them for dog walking and they really work! </p>
<p>We are three hours north of DC and I have to say, your timing for this trip was not the best. It did get chilly and windy today. But yesterday I went to an evening affair with no coat, just a wrap and the day before it was 60. The whole winter seems to have been back and forth like that for us, so we can’t complain - have pretty much escaped all the brutal weather that much of the rest of the country has had. We had a couple of mini snow/ice events (only a couple of inches each time) that slowed down the morning rush hour and that was about it. I’m actually sorry we’ve had no major snow this year! </p>
<p>Hope you stay warm!</p>
<p>That’s what I end up thinking whenever I leave my apartment… There are radiators and I guess the controls are set to about 68 or so on the first floor…but I’m on the third floor. If I leave the windows open for half the day it’s usually around 77 or so, but if it close them it goes up to 80-85 or so. In the summer I only have a window air conditioner in one room, so it’s also about 80-85 or so in the living room/kitchen area then. It drove me nuts when I first moved here but now I’ve gotten used to it…so much that whenever I go any place else that has normal temperatures, I’m freezing cold. When I go home to my parents’ I walk around draped in blankets in the winter and drive them nuts by turning off the air conditioning during the day in the summer. Sometimes I get days where I’m going in and out of buildings all day long and I just never get warm. I think I will move south when I graduate…</p>
<p>if the hotel has a gym- aerobic exercise- like the bike or treadmill should get you sweating if you do it hard enough for at least 20 min.
Most times after I am done at the gym I don’t even put my coat on to walk the few blocks to my car and that is after I have showered and cooled down</p>
<p>( my D just arrived in NYC tonight after spending a couple days in Pittsburgh from Portland- she will stay a week and then go to Chicago- didn’t say anything about the weather- other than there were small flurries in Pittsburgh which got her very excited)</p>
<p>I don’t know how good your hat and gloves are- but covering extremities is important- windchill is worse than cold & maybe boots with your skirt?</p>
<p>It’s getting slightly better - I forced myself to take the Metro last night to and from the reception, as well as walking the six blocks on both ends of the commute. I could have taken a taxi - I’m fine with paying taxis if it’s a time issue and my schedule is tight, but I refuse to pay a taxi just because it’s cold - anyway, I cannot tell if my face is red from windburn, cold, or sunburn from my Saturday spent outdoors in Miami. Then I did some exercise which also helped…</p>
<p>Now I’m watching the news, the temperatures are in the 20’s, and I have to be somewhere by 7:00 a.m. AND there’s going to be a wind advisory. OMG. Oh well, in 72 hours I will be back home. I can probably endure ANYTHING for 72 hours. Oh well at least it’s not Vermont lol. </p>
<p>I’m used to the heat, as I live in, well, where I live it’s always 70 -90, and always very humid. The one good thing about this cold, dry weather is it makes hair look fantastic. Oh, and I have to drink lots and lots of water - desperately thirsty, lack of water in the air I guess. </p>
<p>Busyparent, Carnegie Hall is the end of this month - she doesn’t have her outfit together yet, and we’re supposed to go shopping weekend after next. (I’m in New York next week so no time before then.) I did meet the young man though - we all had lunch - he’s very, very nice, just a good, nice person and an excellent student too apparently. Major in music engineering and a minor in computer science. He got upset because he got a 96 on his physics midterm. LOL. D is still pursuing career in art crime, and has applications in progress with two federal agencies, though not the FBI yet, as for what she wants to do will require a Masters, or three years of “real” work experience. </p>
<p>Emeraldkity, boots??? I haven’t owned a pair of boots since grade school. As it was I got confused last night - usually, when I go to events in northern cities in the winter, either I’m with someone who checks coats for me, or, in the senate & house buildings, there are self-serve coat racks where you just hang up your coat along with everyone else’s and you retrieve it on your own on the way out - anyway, last night, I had to use the coat check, and had NO idea how much to tip the attendant, or even if I was supposed to. We don’t wear coats where I live. So I gave her some money and hopefully I didn’t do anything stupid. Problem is I have to do the same thing today, and tomorrow. How embarrassing to not know how to do this…</p>
<p>My daughter says there is no such thing as weather that is too cold – only inadequate clothing. She has wintered in Moscow as well as spending much time in Boston as well as NY, so she knows a little bit about that. I just got back from visiting her and here is what I observed:</p>
<p>She layers and she wears boots.</p>
<p>She wore leggings every day under her jeans. On top she would wear a camisole, shirt, sweater, & then coat – and of course she always had a scarf or muffler. She actually does not own a very heavy coat or a parka – her warmest coat is a medium weight, knit coat – but with all those layers she was fine.</p>
<p>When it was raining I noticed she did not hesitate to go off to class in clunky looking rubber rain boots. </p>
<p>So basically the answer is: more clothes. </p>
<p>My personal observation has been that a warm muffler makes all the difference in the world.</p>
<p>Emeraldkity, boots??? I haven’t owned a pair of boots since grade school.</p>
<p>sad 
I love boots
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<p>but I agree with the chemical hand warmers- we buy boxes at costco for soccer season- they also have sticky backed body warmers that are sold for " that time of the month"- but keeping the areas with thinnest skin and most blood vessels covered like neck and chest will help.
( also try eating “warming” foods- like indian 
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<p>When I read someone’s suggestion about the hand warmers, I had completely forgotten about ThermaCare wraps. Oh man, they are awesome. They can be purchased at any drug store/Target/WalMart for about $6 for a 2 pack. They wrap around your body like a belt, with a velcro tab. There’s NO smell (it’s just iron of some sort), and they last a GOOD 8 hours. </p>
<p>The last film I worked on was on an abandoned Marine base, with no electricity or running water. We were on set starting at 5 in the morning and these wraps, under my clothing, kept me sane. </p>
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<p>emeraldkity4, how did your daughter like Pittsburgh?</p>
<p>The hotties hand warmers are great- try a sporting goods store.</p>
<p>Also, one of those “Spa” rice bag things or slippers that you heat in the microwave can warm you like crazy, I use one all the time in the winter, across my lap during the evening, by my toes in bed, etc. My H and I disagree on the heat of our hosue and this heated “bag” helps me compromise to his cooler (and cheaper!) temperature without turning blue.</p>
<p>If it is breezy you gotta get gloves on your hands and a scarf around your neck. Hit these little things and life will be so much more pleasant.</p>
<p>It’s getting better - for two days now I have refused to take any taxis, forcing myself to walk everywhere and take the Metro, and am finally getting used to it, or, at least it’s not as horribly unbearable as it was Sunday. </p>
<p>I am positive I saw two people from Vermont yesterday - one was jogging yesterday morning in shorts and a tshirt and nothing else - and he was wet with sweat - the other, last night, walking down the street in a short sleeve shirt, no coat, no sweater, and didn’t appear to be the least bit cold. So these two were either barking mad, or from Vermont.</p>
<p>-1 with about a 20 mile an hour wind last night. Better get out and feed my birds. Nice.</p>
<p>The cold wave has arrived. Our outdoor thermostat reads 7 deg, the wind chill factor pushes the temperature down into the negative zone. Brrrr…</p>
<p>-17 wind chill here. Now it really <em>is</em> cold. Whoever said we should head over to Sinners Alley on Tuesday for hot toddies had it right.</p>
<p>Seeing as today is Tuesday, off I go. Noting the hour, I think I’ll make it hot chocolate. For now.</p>
<p>IM from my D this morning;</p>
<p>D: it’s 0 degrees outside
D: that’s just lovely
Mom: Don’t worry, in like a lion, out like a lamb.
Mom: That’s what they say about March.
D: i gotta run
Mom: Bye
D: bye bye</p>
<p>Seems to be hard to talk in the cold;)</p>
<p>emeraldkity4, how did your daughter like Pittsburgh?
She really liked it. I have never been there- and I have only heard jokes about Pittsburgh, but she had a good time even though she was only there for a few days. The Cathedral of Learning that they hoped to visit closed earlier than they realized so they only saw a few exhibits but they visited the Botanical Gardens and the weather I think was good. ( her thesis was botany related)
( she was with a friend who is a 1st year math teacher, in a Quaker boarding school and they had a good visit- I think she is already planning her next trip)</p>
<p>Winter started out good, but it is sure finishing with a real bang. Likewise it’s 3 degrees now and we have ice and snow along with a biting wind.</p>
<p>Take some heart here as the weather guys are referring to it as the last big one, we will see.</p>