A Cajun lady living in Alaska suddenly wishes she were back home in her native Louisiana, where it is a lot warmer, for one thing.
January 10, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska~
Dear Journal~
Kat Delchamps-Hammer here.
Suddenly I am wishing I were still living in Louisiana. Whatever possessed me to move to Alaska????
I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband--however, I am gonna' kill him if he don't move me back to where it is warm!!
Right now I'd even move to the sun--anything to get warm! Dang, it's cold here!! Today's high was like five degrees. Above zero. Tonight's projected low is somethin' like fifteen to twenty degrees--below zero. BRRRR!! That's colllllllld!!
Frank, however, is lovin' this cold shit. He can have it as far as I'm concerned! He ain't a warmblooded Cajun gal like me!! I am NOT used to this kind of extreme weather!!
I tried to go outside, went right back in. I swear my eyes froze shut and my eyelashes instantly turned to ice! The air was brutal; what made it all the worse was wind gusts up to twenty five m.p.h., which made it feel even colder. BRR!!
If Frank don't move me back to Louisiana by springtime, I'm gonna' get pissed; if there's one thing y'all don't wanna' see, it's a hacked off CAJUN!!
If there's any consolation in livin' here in this frozen wasteland called Alaska, I have Frank--and "Aurora Borealis of the Far North", our Norwegian Forest cat, to keep me warm. I jus' can't take the cold, non!
I swear Frank mus' be part Eskimo, the way he carry on 'bout the cold weather!!
He says it's invigoratin'. Me, I say it's nuts to live in an environment where the sun don't shine for six month', an' then when it does, it shine for 'nother six, even at midnight. Very confusin' to this stupid Cajun gal!!
Well, I am gon' bury myself under the blankets, take the cat with me. I can't take too much more a' this, non! I'm 'bout to turn into a Cajun Popsicle!!
Will write in here again when I warm up. That may take a year---
LOL at "I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband, however, I am gonna kill him if he don't move me back to where it is warm! Right now, I'd even move to the sun--anything to get warm!!"
One good thing, though, Kat doesn't have to worry about hurricanes in Alaska. Or tornadoes. (Usually.) Thought that's why she moved up north, to get away from all that, the memories of Katrina.
