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§ life at home
Complexities of Comfort
Complexities of Comfort.
The house has been pretty chilly lately, and ‘Dave the Sentient Thermostat’ is having a hard time sorting out what to do. One day it’s minus 20; the next day, it’s plus 10 and so on. All this to say, I’ve taken to wearing my ‘Koala Nap Time’ slippers on a pretty regular basis, and last night I wore socks to bed, which I never do.This is not entirely true.
I’ve taken to wearing a ‘Koala Nap Time’ slipper during the day and a sock to bed last night. Yes. Often you will find me wearing just one because sometimes two slippers (or two socks) make my feet too hot, which throws my entire body temperature out of wack*. But I can’t take them both off because that will make everything too cold. And more often than not, while sleeping, I will have one if not both naked feet sticking out from under the covers trying to regulate my body temperature.Bodies are complicated.
Regarding one slipper during the day—sometimes that choice has nothing to do with body temperature and everything to do with ‘foot feel’. I can’t be the only one who likes to mix up my tactile tootsie experience and have one foot in the fuzzy and one foot on the floor. It ends there, though. I can’t abide wearing two different thicknesses of socks—patterns and colours can be different, but the thickness has to match.COMMENTS FROM ASTUTE READERS AND FOOTNOTES
* I have left this typo in, or is it a typo, you decide.
"Once again, your blog takes me to places I've never been before. The second line of the second paragraph stopped me in my tracks -- 'wack' when I was pretty sure it should have been 'whack'. But, so as not to criticize unjustly, I Googled it. I was, unfortunately for you, correct. It should have been 'whack'. But, I discovered that there is a word, 'wack', which is an informal and familiar form of address, chiefly in Liverpool, as in, 'Gorra light 'ave yer, wack?' Now, I would never have come across THAT on my own." — Yvonne