Staying Warm

 

How do you stay warm on bloody cold days?

Do you like fleecy type clothes such as track pants, or maybe you like to wear thermal underwear, or maybe you just like to wear layers of clothes.

The last few years I didn’t feel the cold at all during winter, but this winter is different, I really feel it. In fact, I have days when it feels like I can’t get warm. However, I cannot wear fleecy track pants as I will overheat, so I wear a pair of pantyhose under my long pants. I also bought some winter socks which in past years I couldn’t stand such socks as they made my feet sweat.

I also cannot sleep in long clothes due to overheating, in fact I can’t remember ever wearing long clothes to bed during winter.

During the day I will wear a long sleeve singlet on really cold days under my top. I do have a pair of track pants that I wear out on cold days since most of my other pants and not nice enough to wear out in public.

Yes, we have a couple of heaters, small fan heaters, one in the bathroom, one in Tim’s office and one in the loungeroom. I just try not to use a heater if I don’t need to. Although I do turn the one in the bathroom on when I first get up to warm the room and if it is really cold, I turn the heater on in the loungeroom as well.

Cauliflower Trauma

 

Have you ever experienced a traumatic incident involving food that has left such a lasting impact that 46 years after the event you are still unable to eat anything involving said food?

I have, which would be obvious by this post, the food being cauliflower, I was 15 at the time and at the meal I tried a little bit of cauliflower and didn’t like it. So, I didn’t eat it but for whatever reason Dad went off his head, saying I had to eat it all. I was stubborn and wouldn’t eat what I didn’t like, Dad got madder and hit the table and in a raised voice told me I would sit there until it was finished.

Mum stayed out of it, but she would have spoken to Dad when he was a bit calmer. I sat at the table for around 30 minutes before Dad snapped at me to just go to my room.

After about an hour Dad came and knocked at my door, I was most likely reading, anyway he came and asked if we were still friends. This was something Dad always did after getting mad with any of his children. I said yes and we hugged, and he said I would not be expected to eat it ever, unless I wanted to.e

I have not eaten it to this day and I will not eat it, even thinking about it and writing this was distressing for me.

Boredom

 

Do you get bored?

Do you think the younger generation get bored too easily?

Most people find it odd that I don’t get bored, and I have no memory of ever getting bored, nor do I get lonely, and I like my own company.

Now I am not saying I have never been bored, I am sure I have at times, but it isn’t the norm for me and even as a child I never complained of being bored.

Liking one’s own company runs in my family as I know my sisters also like their own company as did my mother. Mum thought with her it had to do with the fact that as a child she spent a lot of her time alone as she lived with her grandmother for around 10yrs and it was just the two of them. She did have friends, but she did spend a lot of time alone reading.

As a teenager I didn’t have any out-of-school friends, I had friends I hung around with at school but not at home and spent most of my time reading or listening to music. Which may be why I am comfortable on my own.

I can always find something to do but I also enjoy doing nothing, just sitting and watching the traffic go by or sitting and people watching.

The youth of today seem to have a habit of expecting to be entertained and will complain they are bored, expecting someone else to fix their boredom. To me it doesn’t work that way if you feel bored find something to do, don’t expect me to fix your boredom.

Both Blain and Sam spent a lot of time in my care when little and yes, I played with them but not all the time or for hours on end. I left them to amuse themselves which they did, they never complained about being bored.