Questions of the Week: January 6th

[Vanquisher]

1. What would your perfect weather calendar look like? Would you like four seasons? Snow? Rain? What temperatures? How much variation?

2. What do you call your in-laws? What does your spouse call your parents?

[Vanquisher]

1. What would your perfect weather calendar look like? Would you like four seasons? Snow? Rain? What temperatures? How much variation?

2. What do you call your in-laws? What does your spouse call your parents?

1. My perfect weather calendar would be a low of 65 and a high of 85, partly cloudy, with a tiny breeze, every day of the year. It would get light at 6:00 am and dark at 9:00 pm. I know we need rain, but if it was, you know, magically not needed, this is what I'd want.

2. I call my in-laws by their first names. DH does the same with mine, but has occasionally called them Mom/Dad.

[Urowife]

1. I thought I would miss the change of seasons when we lived in So Cal, but I really didn't. So my perfect weather calendar looks similar to yours - highs in the 70s and 80s, sunny. If it needs to rain, it can rain overnight!

2. In-laws by first names. And DH calls my parents by their first names.

[niener]

1. What would your perfect weather calendar look like? Would you like four seasons? Snow? Rain? What temperatures? How much variation?

2. What do you call your in-laws? What does your spouse call your parents?

1. I'd want all 4 seasons but a short winter. Winter would only last about 4-6 weeks, and it'd snow at least a third of that time. Spring and Fall would see highs in the 60s, lows in the 40s and last about 3 months each. Summer would be highs in the 80s, lows in the 60s and last the remaining 4.5-5 months. I'd like a decent amount of rain because I like lots of green, but I'd want it to rain hard 30-60 minutes a couple of times a week or rain a few hours overnight. I need lots of sunshine. (That's more or less how the rain behaves in my current location -- storm and done). And most importantly of all, LOW HUMIDITY.

p.s. if someone knows a place where this combination actually exists please tell me and I'll love you forever.

2. FIL goes by an unusual nickname that everyone calls him, including his own kids (they don't call him "dad"). MIL I call by her first name. DH I think either calls my parents by their first name or Mr. and Mrs. ____. I honestly don't know, we almost never have to actually address them by name to their face.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

1. Ideal? I would love to live someplace where the temperature varies between about 90 and 60 (for daytime highs), snow for maybe 3 days surrounding Christmas, and occasional rain. Or, I'd like to live in Hawaii...

2. My parents INSIST that DH calls them Mom and Dad. I call DH's parent's by their first names. My mom actually yelled at me because "she raised me better" than to call the ILs by their first names. That's what they wanted, so who cares??? (My parents are also the only of my friends parents who haven't said "call me (FirstName) to my friends, although my dad will introduce himself to my new friends as Ken).


Wife of a PGY-4 Orthopod

[spaz]

1. I loved the weather when we lived in OKC. It didn't stay as hot in the summer as it does in Texas. We actually had a winter. I still remember calling our parents on Halloween the first year of residency to tell them it was snowing!!!! ( We generally only saw snow maybe once every 2 or 3 years and NEVER that early. ) We got enough snow to be fun, but not to get tired of it and not the ice storms like in Texas. Now there were no major tornadoes during the time we were there, so that made a difference as well.

2. I call my inlaws mom and dad, He calls mine by their first name

[corn poffi]

1. I'd be happy in a world without fall (aka the season of death) or winter. Honestly, I'd be okay with year-round summer (like Midwestern summers, not like the super hot, icky stuff).
2. N/A

[Pollyanna]

I really love the weather here. Four mild and distinct seasons. Just enough snow to enjoy and play in for a day or two but nothing that causes too many problems. Summer is really only uncomfortable for about two weeks (we're AZ folks though so the heat is relative). Fall and spring are beautiful.

We don't talk to the ILs so....but I was supposed to call them mom and dad but really I rarely addressed them by name or anything else. Dh always called my folks mom and dad.

[Auspicious]

1. Winter: 20s and snowy for about three weeks around the holidays, 40s the rest of the time. Ends around third week of February. NO WIND, ever.

Spring: 60-70, not too much mud. Jeans and a shirt but no jacket.

Summer: Mostly 75, a few spurts of high 80s to make you really want to go swimming and have popsicles. Partly cloudy--I hate constantly beating sun even when it's not hot. Low humidity. Sandals every day.

Fall: High 50s-low 60s, crisp and clear, leather boots and light jacket.

Summer and fall should last the longest.

2. We use first names. One of my SILs calls my parents by their firsts, but the other one--the one who has been with my brother since age 14--calls them "Mom and Dad L.," "Mom and Dad Lastname," or "Mom and Dad" and just between us, my mother has never liked that! "She has her own mother!" Of course in thirty years she's never told her.

[mommax3]

Questions of the Week: January 6th

I'd take longer seasons of spring, summer, and fall, with no winter at all. 😉

(Forgot to answer the 2nd question)
We call each other's parents by their first names.

[SuzySunshine]

I liked the weather in KS when I grew up - now we have these crazy hot summer swings and these crazy cold winter blasts. But I still like the 4 seasons.

I call my ILs by their first names and DH does the same to mine.

[diggitydot]

I really love the weather where we currently live. The summers are amazing, we have distinct spring and autumn, and a real winter that doesn't go on forever (like it can in the Midwest).

I don't call the in-laws. Bah-dum-bum.

[bokelley]

1- could care less if I ever saw snow again. Give me lows in the 70s highs in the 80s. Rain is ok as long as it is not all the time. Sunshine and lots of it. I could have the same weather everyday and be thrilled.

2- we call each other's parents by first names.

[MAPPLEBUM]

1.) I like seasons but not the darkness winter brings.
2.) Please try not to on your computer. In laws love nicknames so when MIL started calling me DILLY I was compelled to call her MILLY. Yes, that's short for "Mother in Law I love you". They don't seem to like when I use their first names but do call each other by their initials so I'll do that too...

[spotty_dog]

I need a winter that is cold enough to give the plants and me a break from growing, and temps that flirt with freezing a few times between November and February, plus 1-2 instances of a picturesque snowfall, but otherwise 40s and 50s (and never any salt on the roads). I need a spring that actually comes in the spring months of March-May and is heralded by an explosion of flowers. I don't love heat, temps that mostly lurk in the high 60s to mid 70s and no need for central air conditioning would be just fine. If we can direct the rain only to fall overnight, let it rain an inch a week in the summer, otherwise I don't mind droughty weather if the water sources are fairly reliable for watering. And fall needs to be a crisp season of wool sweaters, hot cocoa, and fireplaces without actually needing anything more than a wool sweater to be able to go outside comfortably.

Wait a minute, I just described the climate where I live! I wouldn't mind more regular low 70s in the summer instead of occasional mid-low 60s with wind that makes it actually a bit crisp. And a slightly longer growing season. DH would like a lot more warm and sunny days, his ideal climate is Hawaii.

We call our ILs by their first names. I think I got brave enough to call the ILs anything at all around the time we got engaged.