co..co…cold!

The radio show, Sounds Like Canada (CBC) was taped, so for those of you who were fiddling around with your radio dials yesterday, it won’t be playing until this Friday. 

It was kind of funny, right after I blogged you guys yesterday, I ran upstairs to take a quick bath.  WELL, let me tell you...It was way quicker than even I anticipated!  We have a ton of people in the house.  Little did I know that I was the last person to get to the hot water tank.  I just blithely turned the faucets to their normal, perfect-bathwater-temperature-for-Meg position, flew around the room getting everything else organized, and then when there was a couple of inches of water in the tub I lept in, (And yes, there is nothing I like better than a nice deep tub of water, but with all the water shortage problems that are developing in the world, it’s only very rarely that I will indulge.) Well, thank god that I was being frugal with the water, because that bath was lukewarm to cold.  YOWZAH!  I danced around on tiptoe while I turned the cold water handle completely off.  No help, the water that should be steaming out, scalding hot, is only a tepid warm. 

What to do?  I have, have, HAVE to wash my hair!  I take a deep breath and plunge in.  And in case you have any doubts, let me just reassure you that that was the fastest bath the world has ever seen!  FREEZING COLD!!!

There was a huge pile up on our route, so we had to do a U-turn, whip out the map and find an alternate way to go.  Luckily, ever since that ridiculous cab ride to that library in Toronto, I’ve been giving myself a ludicrous amount of wiggle-room and so even though we had to weave and back-track and zig this way and that, we still made it to the radio station with 20 minutes to spare.

I do the radio show in my coat.  By the way, it’s not like it’s a freezing cold day outside.  It’s around 9 degrees Celsius.  Anyway, I’m not just wearing a coat, I’m wearing a sweater AND a winter scarf looped around my neck!  But still my teeth are clattering.  (It probably would have helped if I’d had time to blow dry my hair, but you see, that is one of the blessings of doing a radio show.  I could have showed up in my flannel pajamas and nobody but the host and the producer would have been the wiser.)

Anyway, here it is, more than 24 hours later and the cold is still dancing around in the marrow of my bones.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in Chewing the Fat

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