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[chasingtides]

Flisters, oh flisters,

My tired body craves warmth, so I'm looking at investing in a hot water bottle. (Also useful if I move and don't have a microwave because God knows that I cannot live without a kettle, ever in my life, even when I move into the upper canopy of the Everglades during the zombie apocalypse and live off of canned jam.)

I'm looking at Amazon, but if they're attractive/well rated, they're expensive. If they're not expensive, they're ugly and have serious flaws. I want something with a cover that won't leak hot water all over me and my mattress in the middle of the night.

Suggestions?

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[13chapters.livejournal.com]

Check eBay for the nicer models?

[darkelegies.livejournal.com]

Can you get a basic bottle and make a cover for it? I was looking on etsy at covers and they're more than I would want to pay, but I think you're crafty.

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

This -- heaven knows we've got enough yarn in the collective...

[smallcaps.livejournal.com]

Huh. Down here the Walmart/Target equivalent sells water bottles for...idk, about five bucks? You've got to overfill them pretty badly to get them to leak. It never would have occurred to me to look on Amazon.

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

Nope. None of those shops (or the pharmacies) around here sell them. The CVS (a pharmacy shop) near my work sells heat packs that you microwaves - I got some for my mother for the holiday - but that's not what I want. Target Online has one....but with shipping it would be almost $30.

I found a 72 oz one on e-bay that's 10 bucks with shipping. Imma go with that one. I can knit me a pretty cover after the holidays. Or - if I get the sewing machine I wanted - I can sew me one for a first project.

[crimsonkitty88.livejournal.com]

NO HEAT BETTER THAN BODY HEAT. *JUMPS*

[senor-coconut-1.livejournal.com]

Oh, great, everyone's planning on coming HERE when the zompie apocolypse comes?

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Bad idea!

I actually suggested Miami for an apocalypse RPG once, because games are NEVER set in Miami, and someone reminded me that it would be a jungle in 2 years, and full of mosquitoes and you'll be dead of west nile or malaria. And I went, oh. Because it's true.

But I'm still pleased with a South Florida mention anyway.

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

If the apocalypse was set up here, I'm pretty sure 90% of the population would be dead by the first January, what with people having no idea how to store food for winter.

So.... Georgia?

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

That is true. SFlorida is probably still more inhospitable though. Granted it doesn't get cold in the winters, but oh god the mosquitoes. And the jungle. Then again if you want to live in the Everglades I guess that wouldn't bug you....

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

We can huddle in northern/central Georgia for the apocalypse, then, because I don't want to think of living in a modern house in New England without heat. That's a recipe for death.

[senor-coconut-1.livejournal.com]

I just noticed that not only did I typo zombie, but also apocalypse and it was then that I realized that it's STILL too early to be typing.


No lie, we had the sliders open because we were grilling and at some point a black spiny-tailed iguana slithered in and I was taking a shower and saw lizard feet between the curtains and pulled them back, thinking it was just a curly tailed or something and there he was. Of course, I screamed and now I can't find the bastard despite having TWO cats, two kids, and a husband who really likes that Mexican Radio song and wonders what bbq iguana tastes like.

This was yesterday. He's still here.

Ah, Florida.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Mexican Radio song and wonders what bbq iguana tastes like.

That is amazing.

NGL, the iguana will probably die in your house if they haven't gotten out on their own. But they've probably gotten out if you can't find them, they're not really keen on the whole hiding thing. Those dudes are nasty sometimes.

The animals are part of the reason I didn't move to Philly. We have peacocks in our yard. How awesome is that? ...And of course I'm moving to an 8th floor condo where the only interesting wildlife I get are feral parakeets (and pigeons, damn those pigeons).

[senor-coconut-1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have peacocks, too!

Don't forget the wild parrots we have!

I have an ongoing photo album of all the strange things that run through my backyard--basilisks, monkeys, iguanas, you name it and it's probably here.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I love the parrots! There's a small population of macaws that hang out around south Coral Gables. Sure they're not native, but they're awesome.

I need to get a video of the parakeets coming to roost in the evenings. There's several hundred, I'd guess, but a picture doesn't cut it-- as they start angling toward my building it's like a wall of noise coming at you. Coolest, freakiest thing ever.