Hi Guy’s. I would like to tell you how cold it is here in The Mitten this morning, but the outside line of the thermometer is reading —-. Which means the battery outside needs to be changed. Which means that someone needs to stand on a chair on our back porch, in the freezing cold, and change it. And my only thought was, didn’t it do the same thing last year during a frigid cold week as well? So I had to check the weather the old fashioned way. By turning on The Weather Channel.
It’s 11 degrees with a high of 29. There you go.
Mousey did not have school last Friday because of finals week, so it seemed like a gloriously long weekend. In which, we did absolutely nothing. And we liked it. We loved it.
We watched movies and cleaned out the DVR, which was dangerously full. We can now face the week, with it’s heavy television recording schedule.
We also luxuriously relaxed with my new favorite thing!
WARM fireplace logs!!!! Honey swapped out our old fake logs for these fake logs that actually give off heat! Of course, this has not been a problem free endeavor, as nothing at our house is. I will point out some Honey-modifications.
Modification.1. Because for some reason, the rising heat was causing the granite front and the wood around it to want to seriously combust, Honey devised the hood to deflect the delicious warmth out into the family room. Because I would like to TRY and seriously combust in our house. This is deflector hood number two. Honey has already informed me that he is working on hood number 3. The hood seems to be working, but it needs…
Modification 2. The little vent fan blowing air into the fireplace, which then bounces it back into the family room, increasing our heat. Capri Lis told us about this idea, that she heard about from Capri Patt. It’s good to have friends.
I don’t know that this is the permanent fan, but it’s what we have now. It can’t be completely permanent, because those are our coasters holding the fan at the right angle. We need to use the coasters.
This is my second favorite part of this little heat seeking endeavor.
It’s a click start!!!!! AND the fan is too! That is the thingy is what he usually hooks up to our Christmas tree to run the lights. Clearly, bending over to plug in the Christmas tree lights every time is far too taxing for us. As is bending over to turn on the fan. All to say that I can start the fireplace AND the fan without getting off the couch! I love it! Love my reading material as well. Haven’t read this in years. So far, they have gotten a kitty! Life is good out on the prairie.
I am also loving this:
I love the words, I love the challenge. It is a colossal time waster. I have passed on the addiction to The Boy. Sometimes, when I happen to enter his room, he is laying on his bed playing on his laptop. He will want to tell me about his awesome word for such and such points, or about how he beat his old high game. Sometimes we collaborate for a few levels and congratulate ourselves on our skillz. I have a confession to make. He is good. But, I am AWESOME!
Another simple love?
Mousey wanted to try this. We tried this. I LOVE this. She does too. We have now talked the Ab-Cat into trying this. She bought this. She has not tried this yet because she is using up the last dregs of her old stuff. Because she is good like that. She did not get that gene from me. That’s all Honey. We are hoping she loves this as well.
It has grit in it that sort of feels like you are scrubbing a layer of dead skin off with sand from your last vacation to the beach. Perhaps that is the purpose? It leaves you feeling a tad bit sandblasted, yet remarkably soft and smooth and fresh! Not dry in the least. Which is always the problem for me. I tend to be a little dry in the skin area. Love it.
And finally, my last true love for he week. Purchased from The Value World during The Capri-cious Week. A pair of Daisy Fuentes sleep pants with the tags still on. For $3 something. SO soft and comfortable with a little bit of stretch and darling pink and brown flowers. I.absolutely.adore.them.
And the very best thing about them? I can enjoy every single thing above while wearing them! Enjoying a warm fire?Check. Playing a few levels of Bookworm? Check, check. Washing my face with gritty, cell removing scrub? Triple check.
All that, with the added bonus of this Guy’s company? Four-ple check!
