I got back to New York on Friday night and I’m now experiencing my holiday from my holiday. Utter laziness and apathy has set in. Pretty immediately I might add. I think I’ll blame that mindset on the immediate onset of snow…Yes, that’s right. Snow in October. Apparently, since 1869, when they first began recording snowfall in NYC, there has never been an inch of snow recorded in Central Park on a day in October…until Saturday! 2.9 inches in Central Park and up to 2 feet in other places! Utter craziness.
But back to the subject, for my brain, snow equals winter and part of my travels and thoughts about where to live is about winter weather. New York City has an incredibly long winter and even in London I find that by January and February I am so over winter. The holidays are over and I’m ready for sunny weather and shedding layers. But alas, no, I still have months of cold weather, my shoulders up to my chin as I hurry home ignoring the world around me in the hopes of getting warm as soon as I hop in the door and crank up the heat. So, to have snow in October, on Halloween Saturday at that, was pretty shocking. It’s all melted now and it is sunny outside, but I’m not sure that it’s affected my motivation quite yet.
All that being said, Halloween was fun. I went out both on Saturday and last night, which is big news for this old lady right here. There’s something about Halloween that I love. Maybe it’s the whole dressing up and being someone else, the fantasy aspect, and that even in New York City, a place where, while people aren’t mean, they don’t go out of their way to be nice and friendly and talk to strangers, on Halloween, they do! People talk to one another on the subway, in the streets and there is a general sense of commraderie and joie de vivre in the air. I like it. I went as a vampire’s victim on Saturday and Little Red Riding Hood on Monday.
Now to November!
