Never heard of them! I will look into them. My go to are medium thick wool hiking socks. (I am no hiker, they're just practical.)

I'm thinking about a stand up desk! I've been using them for a few years now but don't have one at home. I believe I can order one through work actually! It's on my list but I'm also in the middle of some typical housey cleaning and sifting so I'd like to wrap that up before I bring in more new furniture and have to decide where the current desk goes. :)

Low wattage is good! My office is over my garage and the cold just radiates up through the floor. I had space heaters in there years ago and they would pop the circuit sometimes.

I've also started a little prisoner fitness regime. 🤣 If I get too cold I hop up and do some squats/pushups/lift weights.

Oh so you know! Really itchy/painful. I thought I had licked it after I quit smoking last year.

Good idea! I've been cranking up my heated mattress pad at night right now and I'm sleeping very well! Winter is balls

When I was going through my intense Wim Hof lite phase I was getting chillblains on my feet from being outside too much. I was working for a manufacturing plant last winter and was running around a lot, and didn't get them. This winter they've come back indoors just because my home office is so cold. I got myself some giant slippers with foam soles and they're healing, but slowly.

Sometimes I feel impatient with my body because it didn't work correctly for so many years. I feel like I can do anything now, which is absolutely untrue. I had Vietnamese food Friday night and the joint pain I had yesterday from the stupid vegetables was a good reminder of how much better things are now!

My older daughter, who left home abruptly about ten years ago to live with her dad, called Rube Jr for my number tonight. She called twice while I was at dinner and sent a text. She came by my house out of nowhere a couple of summers ago to ask for some of her abandoned property (long gone). I told her to let me know if she wanted to go out and talk sometime. She told me I ruined her life.

I'm going to sleep on this sudden reappearance and decide how to approach tomorrow.

Sometimes people disappear so for so long you mourn them as if they died. I haven't known her as an adult and it makes me sad that she sets off my alarms. I will go cautiously.

Ok, trying to turn wedge into a wave pattern by staggering the second row. The sideways triangle is going to be a blue green DK and the upright stitches will be a dark blue fingering. So I won't be able to just turn it and keep working. I'll update if I don't go batty

Thanks! I had fun choosing them. I think I'm not showing off fillet net to its best advantage because that part of the dress will be snugger but it's all good. Using the book for motif inspo/help for the lace parts and they're easy for me to modify to fit odd angles/areas

https://tuttlepublishing.com/japan/150-favorite-crochet-motifs-from-japans-kazekobo-studio

Thanks! Winter will not defeat me 😆

You know I did have the thought that maybe I was putting an eyeball in the wrong place! I'll balance it out by making an intestine head piece

Kind of in that my creations keep normies away?