The knockoff oodie has arrived, and even the S-M is huge on me. I’m skulking around the house like an evil wizard but it is warm.
(Before the oodie was a thing I had been thinking about sewing a monk style house robe out of blanket fabric. I should have done it and run for the patent office, become rich!)
Oh, shower curtain rings are a good idea. (Then again they might require buttonhole bars for the hooks because I don’t want to cut holes.) Do you find any heat escapes out the top?
Poor Mickey! Melbcat is on grain free as well.
It’s not as good as a door but I’m using an old plush blanket on a small tension rod in the doorway, with one bottom corner slightly open so the cat can slip through. (The top edge is folded over and sewn with long backstitches for a really rough casing. Sturdy safety pins might also work depending on weight)
No, I’m Major Pain
Good thing you’re out of there, it does seem weird
It’s fricken cold
Deaths of despair and/or social murder! ☝️ (Due to Shit Life Syndrome)
And yeah… India has already been experiencing 50C heat waves
It’s cold af. I thought it’d be fine with the electric blanket alone but I wasn’t in the bed, wasn’t dressed heavy enough and had opened the door to grab my plants. Was not prepared.
I put door snakes and a rolled up towel under the doors. The casing on the blanket ‘curtain’ I use to block off the other room was unraveling and the fan heater I had out broke… fortunately I had a spare one, and did a really quick rough sewing job.
Then I put trackies over my leggings, a second pair of socks and slippers. I would have been smart to layer up first but didn’t expect the snafus to take so long.
This is the first time I’ve turned a heater on this year but it’s going now. The cat hasn’t emerged yet, hopefully it warms things up a bit before it’s time for her breakfast.
The fuzzy little one is under the doona with the electric blanket on. Now to make a hottie and see if I can wiggle in.
Edit: I bought the knockoff oodie a day or two ago
That does sound creepy. Maybe the metal of the latch shrunk in the cold, and you heard it fall open?
Maybe it could have been pushed shut with a broom if one was available. I’m not familiar with manholes. But definitely do what feels safest and stay in your room.
He was so happy to come inside and sleep on the bed. I had to give him back but still wonder if he’s doing ok
One cat really didn’t like being confined and would lash out (a neglected runaway I eventually got back to his owner) but with patience he started to spoon with me over the covers on his own. He would allow me to pick him up.
If he’d crashed for longer than a few months I might have built enough trust for the cat tent
Mmm. I love how my brain is deciding to dwell on mortality. It really helps with everything.
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Lie on side - raise top arm and possibly knee to create cat tent with doona - she may go under and then you can possibly slowly lower the doona down over the lower half of her body.
It might be more effective with a heat source to tempt her in.
Maybe Melbcat is unusually cuddly for a cat though
Am I gonna have to use leet speak or completely omit mentioning brands now
The irony of me being so active in food subs. But I used to really enjoy cooking and want to pass my favourite tips and recipes on
Ah yeah… I hate to say it but often no matter how clearly you communicate, hanging out with guys one on one (or in general) usually still gets taken as more and then you get blamed for ‘leading them on’ 🙄
Makes it difficult to have cross gender friendships
https://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/site/lemonade.htm
Also maybe lemon meringue pie? I actually found the old recipe I used in my teens. But it might be more efficient just to make a large amount of the lemon filling only, or lemon butter. That’s easier to store in jars and could use more lemons
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This is so scummy and sounds exploitative as fuck. “Doing tenants and landlords a favour”. Not to mention ‘installing guardians’ as if the people are only put there to serve the property… (Which probably is the priority.)
It looks livable I guess… but sounds like substandard housing with extra steps. Namely inserting themselves for the purpose of taking two payments on a property they don’t even own. This isn’t brilliant business, it’s preying on a housing crisis to pull slumlord shit.
(Yes, I know this article is old and UK based. I’m looking at various ways of managing housing shortages.)
Edit: Then again tech bros were reinventing dormitories https://www.cracked.com/article_26540_for-241200-month-you-too-can-live-in-tech-bro-flophouse.html
I have one of each. Long wool coats protect your bum and legs from the wind, but have to be drycleaned, brushed of hair or lint and protected against moths. Puffers are more practical and portable but cover less of you, and depending on filling may also have to be dry cleaned (in the case of down).
The trench coat I have is op shop and the puffer is Kmart so both came in well under budget.
If you really can’t choose you could start with a cheaper puffer to get an idea of it while you continue saving. Then if you don’t like it you can donate it and buy something more suitable