-6°C!!!!

That's how cold yesterday evening it was. (And today too btw.) I left home yesterday when it was about -4°C at 15:30 and it went downhill from there.

I had to stop a few times, first to buy vitamins for my ill chinchilla, who of course refuses to take any and then at the Christmas fair at Blaha. I bought a pair of leg warmers, black with purple stripes and warm, above all else. I also bought myself the silliest hat ever. It has ear protectors and is felted inside, so it's extra warm and I can hardly hear anything and has three braids with pom-poms coming out of it. Two from the bottom of the ear protectors and one from the top of the head. As I said, awesomely silly. (On the pic.)

I also bought my dad a hat in manly colours. I intended it to be an indoor hat, since he doesn't have much hair, never had since he was 18, so... It's the most useful gift ever.

Then I went to teach. Where the kiddo was a bit sick and started throwing his toys. He has been doing this for a while, but never before with such accuracy. The sound system survived, but not the glasses of tea on the table. His mom got really upset and had a nervous breakdown right in front of me.

I don't think I've ever felt so uncomfortable in other company than my family. She snarled that I should leave for a while and paid me for my services. I offered to have tea with her and listen. (The kid had been put in his kiddie bed with the bars so he couldn't come out.)

Luckily, I refused to leave (a decision I am now happy I made but at that time I wasn't that sure it was a good idea... at all) and things ended up getting back to normal. The mom calmed down while I played with the kid and explained it to him that his mommy was sad because he ruined his toys - and if he ruined them, he wouldn't have anything to play with. Sometimes I'm not sure it'd be safe for me to have a kid. I'd murder him if he pissed me off. (Just kidding, hopefully.)

Anyway. The dad came home, things calmed down and they wouldn't let me leave until I guzzled down 2dl of red wine. It sure kept me from freezing on the road home (1,5 hours) but boy... it was so damn cold! I'm so happy I bought that hat because that at least kept my head warm. My pretty crocheted hat wouldn't have stood a snowball's chance in hell against that weather.

So today here I sit with a horrid migraine (thanks to yesterday's cold and the cold front), legs warmed by leg warmers and I wonder if my dad really will buy a hat like mine, because it'd be funny. (He wants to. But he said he will pick it out himself. I wonder what colour and style he'll pick...)