Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sue - Dec 05, 2007 9:38:00 am PST #5746 of 10001
hip deep in pie

(1) and awake (i.e., doing normal home stuff -- reading, loafing, cooking, working, whatever), and (2) asleep?

I keep my at 18 (66) through the day, and 15 (60) at night. But my rads run warm and it's usually a couple degrees more than that. But NB, I am notorious for keeping a cold house, and I have to turn up the heat when I have company.

I think 68-70 is consider normal room temperature.


Sue - Dec 05, 2007 9:39:42 am PST #5747 of 10001
hip deep in pie

PS, Even at 15, I often wake up in the night because the heat kicks in and I am too warm, but I am afraid to leave the thermostat lower in winter because of the pipes.


brenda m - Dec 05, 2007 9:40:37 am PST #5748 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Glad you asked, Steph, because I'm trying to figure that all out myself. I like it pretty chilly at night, but during the day I'm finding at least 68 seems right.


lisah - Dec 05, 2007 9:40:56 am PST #5749 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

He's been keeping it at 65 or so during the day, and 60 or 62 at night.

My dad just convinced me to turn mine way down and so I've been keeping it at about 62 when I'm not home and at night and at about 68 when I'm feeling chilly. Although last night I was FREEZING and turned it up to 65 for overnight.


Steph L. - Dec 05, 2007 9:41:31 am PST #5750 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think 68-70 is consider normal room temperature.

My co-workers just informed me that this is so. And now I'm vaguely remembering fights with my dad when I was a kid (but damn, that was the 1970s) if anyone would nudge the thermostat past 72.


Dana - Dec 05, 2007 9:41:58 am PST #5751 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I would DIE in a house kept at 60 degrees at night. It's not the sleeping part -- once I'm under a comforter and warm, I'm fine. But I wouldn't have the will to get out of bed in the morning.


sumi - Dec 05, 2007 9:43:08 am PST #5752 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Oh you people with central heat. . .


Glamcookie - Dec 05, 2007 9:43:16 am PST #5753 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Funny we're having this conversation as GF and I had it this morning. I was trying to make a case for 70 being fine for a summertime temp but too cold for a winter temp. She wasn't buying it, but it still makes sense in my head. Also, we live in SoCal - blood is thin!


lisah - Dec 05, 2007 9:43:22 am PST #5754 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

But I wouldn't have the will to get out of bed in the morning.

that is pretty hard I have to say


Jesse - Dec 05, 2007 9:44:44 am PST #5755 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When I am at my parents', I sometimes turn the heat up from the daytime 68 to 69 or 70, and at night (god know what temp it is then), I need a million blankets, etc. Edit: I actually don't mean "daytime," I mean "at home time" -- the heat goes back down when they are at work.)

Yes, I live in an apartment with uncontrollable heat, and keep a window open all winter.

What do we think about re-gifting for an office party? Last night, I found something in my house that I got last year and have never used, and seems like a good office gift (it's a cloth tote bag in a little pouch). But is that tacky?