To Dip or Not to Dip ...

I can't believe NYE is here already! A friend just called me to remind me about the Marble Mountain Polar Bear Dip tomorrow (and how I had vowed to "put the X back in Xmas") just when I was beginning to feel myself chickening out and thinking I could just quietly not show up. Back in the fall, when the weather was tropical compared to now, I toyed with the idea of taking the polar plunge on January 1, 2013 and even practiced with a Turkey Dip at the cottage and a few blasts of cold water in the shower since then. It still seemed like a good idea as recently as Xmas Day when I was out suntanning on the deck. I think I thought I could do it.

the Magic Xmas Pants still fit!

But in the last few days we were hit by a wicked Nor'Easter that churned up the lake and sucked down a whole lot of cold arctic air, and tomorrow is forecast to be sub-zero and windy. I did not sign up for that! The past few January 1sts have been balmy 2-3C and calm. So why this year did Old Man Winter have to show up more or less on time? Where is my old friend Global Warming? 

NYE 2011

NYE 2012

See! The past to year-ends were lovely. This is unfair.

Visit Maggie's Journal for details on tomorrow's dip. I still really am undecided and might be too busy writing my New Year Resolutions to partake. What do you think? My only fear is cardiac arrest, so I am off to do some research on the probability. Vote at the bottom of the right side-bar: To Dip or Not to Dip? That is the question.