Baby it's cold outside...

I love that song, I wouldn't call it my favorite Christmas carol, because it really fit's from October thru March, where I live anyway.

The Jedi LOVES Christmas movies, he'll watch them all year round, but this month especially he'll pull out all the stops. Two years ago at this time we must have watched ELF at least a dozen times, and the only thing that kept me from killing the DVD player was this song.

Anyway, back on subject (or did I ever make it there to begin with?) Our furnace started acting wonky about a week before Thanksgiving, but we were all so busy I don't think that any of us noticed. And then the holiday came and went, with all of us visiting friends & family, and I suppose that's when the furnace went out completely.

Last week we called the handy man to come look at it, but he stopped by twice, and it's still not fixed. So Friday we called a furnace guy... and he can't come until the end of this week.

Soooo... until then, we all sit around in 50 degree weather, wearing layers and blankets and starting a fire in the fireplace, that I know is purely cosmetic unless my happy butt is planted right in front of it.

I grew up with a wood stove and always asked my mom why we couldn't have an open fire, and she tried to convince me that they just weren't efficient... now I realize what she meant... that fire place barely warms the room, let alone the whole house!

I also realize that being cold makes me more lazy than the already lazy person that I am... I'll usually do stuff around the house when I get home and walk up to the store to grab dinner, but now... it's like cuddle up, get warm, only move to make more tea...

hmmm... let's se what else I can blame on the cold?

EDITED TO ADD!!!

The heater is working... yay!!! so... I had on my thermal longjohns, my sweatshirt, some flannel PJ bottoms, my normal blanket on me, and after about an hour I was sweating...

It's amazing how much more comfortable my home is at 70 degrees vs the lower 50's!