It is JULY in Washington state and I'M FREEZING!
I can't believe how on July third, I have to dress to avoid needing to turn on the baseboard heaters.
As it is I am occasionally turning on the electric heater at my feet as I sit here in sweatpants, fur bootie slippers, long sleeve sweatshirt, under a jacket, drinking hot drinks and trying to enjoy you tube videos.
I think I have to return to wearing long johns under the sweat pants, in July!
Maybe if I add a tshirt under the long sleeve sweatshirt it will be warmer.
I just checked the weather stats unit laying on the table and apparently IT IS ME, probably my thyroid acting up.
It has finally reached 68 Degrees in the house (it is 2:45am Fri morning) it is 53 outside heading for 51, the local weather numbers report. It sure doesn't FEEL like 68 in here. I don't know how it got that warm inside with the temp outside in the low 50's, none of the heaters are on. The TV does generate a lot of heat though.
BTW, I did buy a 4 foot X 100 foot long roll of that new REFLECTIX highly reflective, (mirror like) heavy, non tearing mylar, INSULATION for attics that is also a waterproof and non-breathable vapor barrier. (I can always poke holes in it to make it breathable like the perforated "breathable" rolls of it. I have a lot of craft projects planned which incorporate the reflective sheeting to make a curved, fire reflective WALL 4 foot high by 16 foot, out of tarps that reflect the heat of a campfire into a tarp shelter or tent. And make a fanny warmer reflective sitting pad, a mylar and insulation lined 9 X 12 foot tarp to make a shelter in front of the mylar wall, and lots of other things that with mylar, would be more useful in a camp. I have ALREADY discovered that SAVING BIG MYLAR POTATO CHIP BAGS come in mighty handy when recycled to keep things warm or cold! Also, a medium sized potato chip bag stuck in a Jacket pocket will keep hands a lot warmer.
My sister and I both have (she had) Raynaud's disease, probably from being borderline poor ( we got ONE pair of the cheapest knit gloves per year and too bad if you lost them) no tshirts, no slippers, no robe, one thin cotton "sweater", thin cotton "babushka" scarf, and not being dressed warmly enough as little children in Michigan winters, both of us having light cases of frostbite almost daily during the bitter winters on our hands, feet, face etc. We would finally warm up stark white or blueish feet, hands, ears, etc with painful, swollen, red flushing hands, feet ears, legs and noses, only to have it happen over and over and over. She stayed in Michigan, I left Michigan at 18, to never in my life again live in an area where it NORMALLY got cold enough to have snow and bitter winter temperatures. I spent the rest of my life in S. ALABAMA, S. TEXAS, S.CALIFORNIA, N. FLORIDA, ITALY, AND WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE, all in areas where normal winter temperatures are in the low to mid fourties and it rarely dipped into freezing or deposited snow that "stuck" with us for more than a day or so before melting.
As an adult, she bought the protective clothing she never had as a kid, almost as an obsession as well as just needing it to live in Michigan. I too, even though I never had it as bad after I moved away and became an adult, I bought and have an admittedly excessive supply of the warmest hats, gloves, boots, socks, long johns, coats and jackets because I still get light cases of Raynaud's symptoms, just from being out in moderately cold, high 30's low 40 degree temperatures, even without being exposed to the bitter cold temperatures.