Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Cold Heart

...just so you know, my furnace died at 10 pm last night - the coldest night of the year so far - and the friendly furnace man just installed a new motor in it right now at 8:30 this morning. It was so cold that the butter froze to the counter and a thin glaze of ice formed in the kitchen sink. Even the fireplace made only limited inroads on this bone-cracking cold.

Right now, the heat is slowly (too slowly) rising, and I am huddled on the couch wearing a cashmere sweater, a flannel shirt, a down vest, a hat, a heating pad on high, a down blanket, and a cat (a very cold, unhappy cat!). and drinking hot, hot, hot chocolate!

I'm here to tell you that I now know why knitting wasn't invented by the cave men. It's not possible to knit when your fingers are frozen to each other. All I can think about is eating because my body is in desperate survival mode all focused on keeping the cold heart beating!

But, interestingly, a new design idea has popped into my head for a sweater/vest called Cold Heart. I even have the yarn for it already. I can't take a picture of my design for you, because I left my phone cable at my boyfriend's house. And that's the same reason that I can't show you my beautiful copy of A Stitch In Time, or show you which designs from the new Rowan I want to make, or display my newly finished Leyburns (which, sadly, were also left at the bf's).

The good news: I cleaned, from 6 am to 8 am, because that was the only thing that warmed me up! Now I'm off to make a grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast. My body tells me that this is good food when you are frozen.

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