Randy set up the humidifier in the master bedroom over the weekend since the dry winter air\u00a0has caused\u00a0the skin on\u00a0his hands and feet to get dry and crack. Last night before bed I noticed that it was running on empty so I refilled the cannister and turned it on high so that by the time he went to bed, the room would be pleasantly moist.<\/p>\n
Instead, we woke up to a completely saturated carpet in a 6 foot radius surrounding the blower. I’m not talking about a light dew on the tips of the fibers, wither. We’re talking squoosh, squoosh. I initially told him it was simply my method of steam cleaning the carpets, but he didn’t buy it.<\/p>\n
Winter makes things so complicated. For example, I’ve also noticed that it takes me longer in the morning to get ready for work. My shower, dressing, breakfast routine have remained the same…it’s the getting out the door that’s delayed. Between boots and jackets and gloves and 360 ear muffs, I’m adding a few extra minutes standing by the door. And you have to put the iPhone ear buds in before<\/em> the ear muffs and gloves go on, but after<\/em> the jacket goes on. But you can’t really turn on iPhone until you’re ready to walk out the door. But then you put on the gloves and on at least 4 out of 5 mornings I drop the keys because the gloves prevent a decent grip.<\/p>\n It’s even more complicated when it’s snowing or raining, because then I need my nylon pants to go over my jeans (otherwise, I get backsplat within 5 yards of the front door). And don’t forget the umbrella’s, which make holding the iPhone a bitch. And then there’s locking the door with the umbrella and iPhone in one hand, and keys in the other (and bending over to pick up the keys that, like I said, will inevitably be dropped to the ground).<\/p>\n Why do I live here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Randy set up the humidifier in the master bedroom over the weekend since the dry winter air\u00a0has caused\u00a0the skin on\u00a0his hands and feet to get dry and crack. Last night before bed I noticed that it was running on empty so I refilled the cannister and turned it on high so that by the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}