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I wore long johns for the first time this winter :)

Well, the weather deserved it -- the weather forecast said that it was -11 °C outside (that's about 12 °F for you Usonians).

The main problem with long johns is that they keep you warm when you're outside, but heat you up too much once you're inside :P. So I usually take them off once I get to work and have to remember to put them on again before I leave. And the bus can sometimes get pretty warm as well.

I suggested to Stella to keep the temperature at home around 15 °C (59 °F) during the winter so I don't need to strip back so far once I get home, but she wasn't particularly convinced either XD

Phew

When I was about to go home, I forgot that I had brought along my long johns and so hadn't budgeted time for changing before leaving work... and I ended up having three minutes until the bus left when I left work when I normally think that twice that is a decent time.

So I jogged all the way to the bus stop and arrived just in time -- literally seconds before the bus pulled into the stop. Fortunately, it had to wait at a red light while I was covering the last dozen metres.

After I got in, I just sat there for the first quarter of an hour, trying to catch my breath again. But I'm glad I caught the bus since the next one wouldn't have been for another half-hour at that time of the evening!