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downshift

Summer, we hardly knew ye.

I might say the same thing about fall, too, as, in the past few days, the weather gods have abruptly flipped the switch from “warm and muggy” to “dry and chilly.”

My body doesn’t know what to do with the lightning-quick climate change. I’ve forsaken diet soda for copious amounts of hot tea as I try avoid the inevitable sinus infection that sets in when the seasons change abruptly.

My bedroom, with its drafty windows, is already uber-chilly in the morning. I may have to shrink-wrap them again soon.

The sun’s going down a lot earlier. Oftentimes it’s already dark when I leave the office on those nights I stay late. When I leave on time, I can see the sunset in my rear-view window. It’s going to be an even harsher adjustment when daylight savings time ends, and sunset comes an hour earlier.

The sun’s coming up noticeably later, too. Between the chilly bedroom and the low light, it’s getting a little harder to convince myself to leave the warm “nest” that is my bed. Groggy, my eyes open to narrow slits as I grumpily press the snooze button on my alarm clock, hoping for just a few more minutes of sleep … and maybe a few more after that.

I’ve started eating breakfast at home, though — usually a bowl of cereal or quickly-prepared eggs and toast — and I’ve found that it’s doing wonders for helping me wake up, once I’ve convinced my lazy self to roll out of bed. The living room tends to be warmer than the bedroom, anyway.

It seems far too early to be worrying about bundling up from the cold. I don’t think the chilliness really set in last year until November. Fall can’t be over yet … It’s only just begun, and the trees have barely started changing colors.

I hope we get a warm spell soon. I refuse to break out my winter coat just yet.