What we must
A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.
Being taken to bed: one hot water bottle, one heated rice pack, two heated foot warmers, one cup of Tension Tamer tea (love that stuff), one mini pumpkin pie I made with the leftover pastry and filling, one After Eight mint. And a book on tape. And knitting. And the heater hasn’t set off the fire alarm for the first night since Ed and I started sleeping in the guest room (having vacated our own room for his parents) so the room will be WARM. And so will I.
Needs must.
Last year I was also eating a mini pumpkin pie. (I got the dates wrong yesterday.)
Oh, and send a psychic welcome to little John Phileas who was born early this morning to my dear friend. Welcome to the spinning world, little one. We’re glad you’ve come.
Can we discuss the provenance of your heated foot warmers? What is this device? And how does this former Californian, now freezing her not inconsiderable a** off in upstate NY get some?
PAIGE! I would love to enable the warming of your feet.
The feet warmers are in fact (and I love this) Helga’s Footzenvarmers. They came several years ago from a great catalog called Isabella’s (http://www.isabellacatalog.com/) although I just checked and they’re not there anymore. They do have another brand, which might also be nice. The idea is that you stick them in the microwave for say three minutes and then say “ahhhhh.”
I have also googled Helga’s Footzenvarmers and they’re sort of around. Maybe on Ebay? Clearly, they were once available and now, not so much. But the other ones on Isabella might do the trick. I wear them when I’m working at the computer.
Why is there no chocolate in that care package? Hmm?