Support4Change Blog

December 8, 2006

Category: Miscellaneous

By Arlene Harder, MA, MFT
 

If ever there was a reason why I love the Internet, it can be summed up in two words: weather report.  Tonight we’ll be leaving for two weeks in Australia and two weeks in New Zealand. Until yesterday I had been operating on the assumption that the temperature in New Zealand would be about what it is in Australia. And since it’s summer there, I thought it would be like summer in southern California, where we know how to cook it.

Wrong!

True, the first place we’ll go, Adelaide, is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But Queenstown, one of the last, is currently 49 degrees. The forecast for some of the places we’ll go have low temperatures close to freezing.

This information made for some serious shift in wardrobe plans, but with all the layering I now have, I’ll sure I’ll do just fine.

This journal entry is mainly to inform you that even though I’ll not be here, I’ve prepared a number of entries that will be put online by a friend. You can consider them kind of a running itinerary for the next month and you’ll know where I am. Not that that’s important. But the entries have some good ideas for getting through the holiday season without stress (well, less stress than you might usually have).

I think there are some good ideas you’ll find in the next month, even if I’m not here personally.

Tonight we fly to Adelaide via Melbourne. We’ll lose a day crossing the international date line and arrive on Dec. 10.