“Remoted” – Workday 89 /Day 121 (Wednesday)

According to the local temperature displayed constantly on my phone, it was between 68 and 74 degrees today. To everyone else on the planet, this is probably the perfect temperature range, but I was cold. After feeling the chill in the air while letting Moose out at 6:00 this morning, long pants were selected for the day’s attire. Being mid-July, a short sleeve tee shirt was chosen, but it didn’t take long, maybe five minutes, before a long sleeve shirt was layered on. And socks.

Thank goodness for
hot soup lunch.

The beauty and convenience of working from the home-office is the feeling (illusion?) of climate control, plus the availability of an entire wardrobe to layer on or completely change as needed. The individual climate control solution at the office-office was regularly dressing in multiple layers, and maintaining a file drawer stuffed with a various weight wraps and company-logo embroidered blankets to wrap in as needed. And they were needed often, all year long.

This feeling chilly thing has been a curse all my life. At age 16 and visiting Florida in the summer heat and humidity, I sat poolside cloaked in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt while the rest of my family and the relatives we visited all swam in the pool. The story lives on in family lore and the photographic proof lives somewhere in a family album. Not that proof of the tale is needed by anyone who knows me. 

The calendar says mid-summer, but feeling chilly created a requirement of hot soup for lunch like in fall and winter. Luckily, another benefit of the home-office is the freedom and ability to grab soup from the freezer and have hot soup for lunch without much advance planning.

Tomato and cheese sandwich
is summer on a plate.

As the day wore on, the reading on the home programmable thermostat edged upwards to 78 degrees. The produce box arrived with heirloom tomatoes and supper was a true taste of summer with an easy tomato and cheese sandwich. I was still in long sleeves, but a perfectly fresh tomato sandwich let me feel like summer again.