Steam Heat

After a fabulous Tofurkey day which I shared with Ray & his parents (as per usual) with the addition of my brother, who came down to visit from NYU, I am now trying to get back into the swing of things. Post-Thanksgiving means Christmas season, and Christmas means gigs. Gigs are good, but rehearsals abound, and I won't be having a whole lot of time to myself come Monday.

One thing that's been a little frustrating to me is the state of our bed. We have a waterbed, and a few months ago (sometime in the summer) the heater broke. In the summertime, it was kind of nice to have something cool to lie down upon, a break from the endless heat. But now it is wintertime, and the cold water in the bed is not nice at all. Ray keeps saying he's going to fix it, but he's said that ever since it broke, some months ago, and now I'm starting to get annoyed.

Another unfortunate occurrence is the fact that last week the pilot light in the water heater went out. Not a problem, we thought. All we have to do is relight it, and voila! I can take a hot shower again. Except that every single morning since that's happened we've had to relight the pilot light. Not cool. Actually, not warm, but you know what I mean.

The day after Thanksgiving I awoke with the sensation that I had been sleeping on an ice block. Hoping a nice hot shower would help me feel better, I stepped into the shower thinking the water would eventually warm up, but ended up taking a frigid five-minute shower. I hate being cold. I need some steam heat, and now!