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Prepare to be underwhelmed.

November 30, 2010 by Lauren 24 Comments

It’s incredibly cold here now, and it reminded me that last winter I started a movie and never finished it. It has sat on my computer until tonight, when I drew up the last cartoons for it and just got it over with. “Good enough for who it’s for” and all that.

In reality, I had to just get it out there because it’s irrelevant now. It’s a gripping documentary about how cold I keep our house in winter, except now that the new windows are in, I am allowing degrees and degrees more heat to be BTU’d around here. (Like – two of them!) Also, now you know about the nose warmer.

Here is a list of things that are wrong with this movie:
1. It does not star Julia Roberts and Adrian Grenier, who are our preferred stand-ins.
2. Lloyd doesn’t like how he’s singing.
3. I don’t like how I’m singing.
4. I think Lloyd doesn’t like how I’m singing.
5. The drawings are terrible.
6. There are no transitions and the timing is off.
7. I have some typos because I forgot how the song went.
8. There is a LOT of white-out on those drawings, but not enough.

All that being said, here it is: Baby, It’s Cold Inside.

Filed Under: Drawings, Videos Tagged With: add, cold, song, temperature

Where’d it go?

October 23, 2008 by Lauren 8 Comments

I caved yesterday and turned the heat on.  It was 63 degrees in here, and while I’m crazy and cheap, I’m not that crazy.  So the heat is on (at 68), downstairs vents are open, upstairs vents are closed, but I can’t find the stairway curtain. (Hey, you can see the old kitchen in that post!) I had to substitute a silly old flower one for my ultra-classy white one. 🙂 Where could it be?

It’s an extra for the upstairs bathroom.

By the way, current heat check, 67.7 from here on my stool, 62.3 behind the curtain.  I knew you’d want to know.

Filed Under: Gadget, Home 'Improvement' Tagged With: curtain, green, heat, temperature

One born every minute.

September 25, 2008 by Lauren 11 Comments

How is it that I can be a totally responsible cheapskate 99.9% of the time, yet in just seconds of weakness turn into a complete and utter sucker?  I can resist the shiny allure of infomercials by repeating to myself, “It’s not that good.  It’s not that good.  It’s just those fantastically positive spokespeople playing with my emotions.”  I’m strong.  I’m even stronger when I actually see those products – Mighty Putty, Magic Bullet, Hercules Hooks, the GTXpress – when I can actually touch their plastic-wrapped packages in the store (usually Shop-Ko), then the spell is broken and I pat myself on the back for resisting the urge to purchase that crap.  Then I walk past the people in the aisle staring at me for patting my own back and mumbling to myself.

But not this time.  I had to go to Lincoln to get some stuff for school, and while in Gordman’s I saw this.

It blows.

The Quick Cool!  I’ve seen this before!  A solar-powered fan that moves the hot air out of your car!! Look at the torrents of air that fan is moving!!!  It’s so windy it blew that car back to 1930 where it belongs!!  It is using the power of the sun to keep your car icy cool!!!

Yeah, no.  It is so, so bad.  The breeze is weaker than what a moth produces.  I knew it would be, but I couldn’t help it. Just cracking your windows would be much more effective.  I’ll be returning it as soon as possible.

(Or perhaps keeping it for the cool solar panel……?)

Filed Under: Lauren Tagged With: temperature

Let it begin.

November 1, 2007 by Lauren 9 Comments

Crazy Heat Lady is back in business! I’ve hung a ‘temporary’ curtain in the stairway, closed all the vents upstairs and any unnecessary rooms down here, and I’m pleased to report that at 8:09 p.m. the downstairs is a chilly 68.7 and the upstairs is an even chillier 65.2!! Yessir, Lloyd, it’s going to be a miserable winter! One of these days I’ll post about my souped-up bed that finally has the foot warmer and some serious insulation! (Don’t worry, Brad. We’ll turn on the heat when you visit. Just a little.)
What a pretty shower curtain!

Who are we kidding about this thing being temporary? I put some nails up on the other side and this thing will never get replaced.

Filed Under: Gadget, Journal, Lauren Tagged With: temperature

With or without?

June 18, 2007 by Lauren 7 Comments

I love our house. It’s old and creaky, but it’s ours. One thing I do not love about it, though, is how hot it gets upstairs in the summer. Brad can attest to this, since he sleeps in the hottest room in the building. Our regular plan is to close all the vents on the first floor so that the cold air is pumped all the way upstairs and then floats down, but that’s not terribly effective at night after the roof has baked all day. So we’re trying something new – putting a barrier up so that the cold has to stay around a little longer. So far it seems to work, although walking through it with a basket of laundry I accidentally gave Pfennig a pretty righteous kick in the side. Stupid cat. Who dares sleep in my path?!

That's right - it's a fitted sheet and a tension rod.  Back off, NASA!  Quit stealing our ideas!!

Hmmm.  Blurry.

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: experiment, temperature

Second Trick?

January 22, 2007 by Lauren 7 Comments

Hair clog

 (Annette, this one’s for you.)  The vent that heats the bathroom is under Lloyd’s sink.  Can you guess who has known about this heating gold mine for ten years? 

Filed Under: Phennig Tagged With: pfennig, temperature

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