Life's a Beach

I sure don’t like it when the air is dry. I miss having soft feet all year ’round. Now I need to do more than just exfoliate. Sometimes I use a razor blade to get the thick skin off. It’s disgusting. Thankfully they’re not like that all the time. But more than I’d like them to be.

This is the first year that my daughter has been using more lotion than ever. She loves lotion anyway and uses it all year, but this winter she’s been itching a lot on her arms and legs. I think it could be the cheap body wash I got at a discount store. Or maybe it’s the laundry soap. I told her this, but she just bought some lotion for extra dry skin and I haven’t seen her itching nor has she been complaining about it.

Last week I called maintenance the morning to have someone come over to light the pilot light in my furnace. By 3:00 I began to wonder if he was going to make it over. My intuition told me that mine wasn’t the only furnace that he was fixing that day. He confirmed it when he told me that his boss had called him about mine while he was busy working on the other furnaces. He was upset because he said his boss wasn’t doing anything at the time and could have come over himself. It was almost quitting time when he got here, but at least he got the pilot light lit.

There was somethng wrong with the motor, too, but he told me he’d have to come back the next day. He came back with a filter for the furnace and said that he had been told to not worry about the motor unless it stopped working. I was hoping it could be fixed, that it would stop trying to start and stop (loudly) two or three times. But I didn’t let that bother me. It was warm in the house again. That’s what mattered.

Because of how dry my daughter’s skin has been and how dry mine can get some years (cracking and bleeding hands and fingers), I sometines wish they had a humidfier installed and that they would supply a humidifier filter like they do the furnace filter. But again, I’m grateful for the heat. It can get pretty dang cold in the house in the winter.

I’m also grateful for having a roof over my head. Not everyone is that fortunate. Wanna help? JustGive, a nonprofit organization which is registered in California, hey, just where I want to go, lists 35 ways to help the homeless.

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