Thing 2: electric blanket

I will spare you the pic because it's nothing to look at. Just an electric blanket ya know. A dirty tan color. It works though. And it made winter nights in Baltimore bearable. I'm sure you think me a big baby. How cold can a Baltimore night be? Well, we chose the back quiet bedroom in our rowhouse and we keep our home pretty cool in general, but somethin about that back room made it colder than any other room in the house. Seriously, maybe some nights it was 50 degrees F. Ca-razy! Until...we got an electric blanket for Christmas from my in-laws. Turn it on before going to bed, strip out of yer clothes as fast as possible and then nice and toasty. But we definitely went a winter or few without it. We like to see how much we can bear. Not sure why. Some ascetic newenglandy kind of thing. And yes, nice and toasty once under the blankets, but if your partner pulls that electric blanket off of you at night in his sleep, it's like the icy hand of death freezing you awake. Our new apartment, not so cold. And new mattress discourages electric blankets. The blanket is chillin in our walk in cooler of a back room.