Screw it, said I. While my grandmother took her nap I turned on the furnace.<\/p>\n
I'm tired of being fucking cold all the time. I swear, it's been warmer outside the house than inside.<\/p>\n
Just yesterday my grandmother complained about being cold. “We could turn on the heat,” said I.<\/p>\n
“No,” she said. “We never turned the furnace on before Thanksgiving. Some years we wouldn't run it at all.” I should have coughed bullshit, but it was enough to think<\/i> it.<\/p>\n
She doesn't want to run the furnace, and yet she's perfectly happy to run the oven full blast with its door wide open to radiate heat into the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Don't worry, dear readers, when I catch her doing this I shut it off. “The oven's not meant to be run this way,” I've said. Sometimes I'll even play into her delusion that the oven dates to about 1910 as a reason not to do what she's done. (No, the oven dates to about 1985. Where this 1910 stuff comes from I've no idea.)<\/p>\n
So, right now, my office and bedroom aren't freaking iceboxes. I've regained feeling in my feet. We'll see how long this lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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