1.  It’s Friiiiiidaayyyyyyyy.

2.  Can we get a whoop whoop?

3.  Yes. Yes we can.

4.  Full disclosure: I started this post last week.

5.  I made it through #13 (#15 now), got waylaid, then wrote off the day.

6.  Sometimes you gotta take the hit and keep on moving.

7.  We just finished up March in North Carolina and that means rollercoaster weather.

8.  It’s a volatile season.

9.  Since we’re living in the golden age of internet I have stats.

10.  There were three days with high temps in the forties.

11.  Three more had highs in the mid-fifties.

12.  The rest were a combination of sixties, seventies, and eighties.

13.  Scattered, yes, but one of my biggest March challenges is the twelve hour span of temperatures.

14.  In March morning temps demand pants and sweatshirts but short sleeves by lunchtime and sometimes shorts after 2pm.

15.  You gotta live with a freaking carry-on, man.

16.  Leaving the house for the day by 7am but don’t want to pack three costume changes?

17.  Your choices are freeze in the morning, boil in the afternoon, or dress down the middle and be mildly uncomfortable all day long.

18.  What kind of system is this??

19.  It’s the kind of system created for thermostats with an auto setting.

20.  Some household stuff is whatever but one thing’s for damn sure: we live in North Carolina, we must have a thermostat with an auto setting.

21.  You set your own parameters, it works as long as there’s at least three degrees difference.

22.  Say you’ve got the heat set to 68°F and air conditioning set to 74°F — put that puppy on auto and the house will flip systems all day and night.

23.  Drops down to 40°F overnight? No problem, heat will hold steady at 68°F.

24.  Hits 86°F in the afternoon? The unit’s got it, house will stay cool at 74°F.

25.  Some might say we’re living a soft life, no more plotting out when to finally flip on the a/c each spring.

26.  I’ll take that hit.

27.  My blood pressure is grateful to be relieved of the whole song and dance.

28.  Plus my toes are thrilled not to freeze when we have an overnight cold snap.

29.  We call that a win/win.

30.  And we need all the wins we can get since pollen is doing its damnedest to take us out.

31.  In North Carolina there’s a three(ish) week period every spring where the plants try to kill us.

32.  Cars get a sheen of yellow on them after a couple of hours outside.

33.  Porches capture footprints as we sludge our way through pollen sediment.

34.  At the height of what someone called The Pollening there’s a delightful snow effect where you can literally see death clouds blowing across the sky.

35.  You can actually watch as the pollen rains down around us.

36.  These are good times, filled with Kleenex and nasal spray and the best allergy meds CVS has to offer.

37.  A few days more and we’ll have transitioned from Level 10 Deathly Attack to medium-high pollen count days.

38.  There’ll be a second flare up in April but it’s a breeze compared to the March onslaught.

39.  Crap, I probably just cursed myself with that comment. Time to restock the tissues.

40.  May your days be sunshiney and sinuses be clear.