Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bundle up

There have been some disconcerting amounts on my credit card statement lately — one of which was my propane bill last month. With that in mind, I decided to keep the temperature in my apartment a lot lower than normal and not turn my heat on at all in the mornings.

This decision just happened to coincide with two times we got snow where I live — something that only usually happens about two times each winter. So there I was the other morning, an old sweatshirt over my work clothes, wrapped in blankets, eating breakfast with my mittens on. It was a little tricky, but I pulled it off.

Right there, I decided it wasn't worth it, so the heat is going back on in the mornings. I've still been been on the cold side the rest of the time, since the new setting on my thermostat doesn't reach the balmy temperature I consider comfortable.

Lesson learned: I can't wait for summer.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Here's an Idea. Set up your snowboarding waxing table and start waxing your board. Scraping and brushing will help you warm up, and you'll be excited when it snows instead of sad that it's cold.
And you can always throw the board in the car and come to where the snow is 8-feet deep!!!