I am a horrible, horrible person
Oh, my God, it's awful. I am--in the words of Ned Flanders--a mur-diddly-erdler.
It's been really, really cold here in Pennsylvania, as I'm sure you all know. Frigid is a good word for it...& possibly an understatement. And I've mentioned before how very cold my office gets, right? So rather than have the furnace running almost constantly in a futile attempt to heat the office, I've been running my new space heaters during the day when I'm in here, then closing the door at night to keep the cold air out of the rest of the house.
Yes, I realize this is a risk. I'm terribly frightened that I'm going to end up killing my computer or some other piece of vital, expensive electronics. (Eeek.) But I just cannot stand hearing the furnace run constantly & knowing all that heat is just going out the window, almost literally. :-p
The first night I did this, I came out the next morning to find that the glass of tea I'd left on my desk was a solid block of ice. So, you know, it hadn't gotten too cold. LOL And it took about an hour of the heaters running warm things up again.
But the one thing I didn't consider...never even thought of...was my plants. Two of them sitting on a table by the window. Sheesh! The only reason I even noticed them today was that a cat jumped up on that table & when I happened to glance over at him, I noticed the dead, limp bodies of my bamboo & spider plants. I killed them. I killed them good.
Frankly, I should never be allowed near a plant. I don't just have black thumbs, I have black hands. Give me a sick animal & I'll nurse him back to health like a trained professional. Give me a plant & I can kill it overnight. I only even have the few that are hanging on for dear life because they say plants are a great way to keep the air clean, filter out toxins. Unfortunately, I don't think they do such a good job of that if they're tortured & left for dead.
Oh, my God, I feel awful. I would never, ever have done this on purpose. I even have them on life support now, pretending I actually believe there's a chance they'll survive, but it's not looking good. :-P
Oy. Another sad casualty of the frigid temperatures sweeping across the Northeast. May they rest in peace. :-(
It's been really, really cold here in Pennsylvania, as I'm sure you all know. Frigid is a good word for it...& possibly an understatement. And I've mentioned before how very cold my office gets, right? So rather than have the furnace running almost constantly in a futile attempt to heat the office, I've been running my new space heaters during the day when I'm in here, then closing the door at night to keep the cold air out of the rest of the house.
Yes, I realize this is a risk. I'm terribly frightened that I'm going to end up killing my computer or some other piece of vital, expensive electronics. (Eeek.) But I just cannot stand hearing the furnace run constantly & knowing all that heat is just going out the window, almost literally. :-p
The first night I did this, I came out the next morning to find that the glass of tea I'd left on my desk was a solid block of ice. So, you know, it hadn't gotten too cold. LOL And it took about an hour of the heaters running warm things up again.
But the one thing I didn't consider...never even thought of...was my plants. Two of them sitting on a table by the window. Sheesh! The only reason I even noticed them today was that a cat jumped up on that table & when I happened to glance over at him, I noticed the dead, limp bodies of my bamboo & spider plants. I killed them. I killed them good.
Frankly, I should never be allowed near a plant. I don't just have black thumbs, I have black hands. Give me a sick animal & I'll nurse him back to health like a trained professional. Give me a plant & I can kill it overnight. I only even have the few that are hanging on for dear life because they say plants are a great way to keep the air clean, filter out toxins. Unfortunately, I don't think they do such a good job of that if they're tortured & left for dead.
Oh, my God, I feel awful. I would never, ever have done this on purpose. I even have them on life support now, pretending I actually believe there's a chance they'll survive, but it's not looking good. :-P
Oy. Another sad casualty of the frigid temperatures sweeping across the Northeast. May they rest in peace. :-(
