I don’t know if anyone really knows where we are located, or if anyone really cares, but we are in a frozen wasteland called Minnesota. If anyone watches the news, or if any out-of-state news channels cover this, it is REALLY cold here. This weekend it is going to be anywhere between -10 to -20 degrees, and possibly -30 with wind chill. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know that I (kind of) chose to live here, but I feel that everyone who lives in Minnesota, for about the next week, even visitors, should receive an award of some type for surviving today, tomorrow, and about the next month.

(I’m not sure why anyone would want to visit MN in the winter – FYI people! The Mall of America is not as great as it may seem. Unless you like a ton of kids, teenagers, crowds, more teenagers, more crowds, even more teenagers, and of course the insane amount of walking to get from one place to the next. Not worth it!)

Anyway…The coldest temperature on record here is -60 degrees (we could be half way there!) One man decided that he wanted to recognize that freezing day. Therefore heto made a few hundred t-shirts that stated, “I survived the deep freeze.”

I think that is what we all need, a little recognition for leaving our warm houses and attempting to start our cars. Either way, once I get home tonight, I am not leaving…until Monday.

(If you’re calling me weak right now, I bet you live in Florida.)