Is there any way to save money other than freezing yourself out? It's not actually that healthy or good for one's immune system to be cold all the time, especially as we -- sigh -- get older. Though you are a spring chicken compared to me, so perhaps this isn't so much of an issue. You sound so miserable, though. Rope caulk, plastic over windows, anything like that? Though now I type it out, I realize you've probably done all that stuff already, so I'll stop it with the useless advice.
I love the word "Rumphy." It is so useful and expressive.
I wanted to say too that polyamory, regardless of whether the people involved are alive or not, often means not having the arrangements you wish you could, especially when involvements begin later in life and everybody has years of accreted habits and possessions and routines. I lost more than a year of time with my partner I don't live with, from March of 2020 to May of 2021. Now that there are rapid antigen tests, we hope not to end up subsisting only on phone calls and masked outdoor meetings again, but it's very hard to predict the future. In my house, there was just an automatic bubble, but he doesn't live in my house, for a lot of reasons, including a serious lack of space.
Enough rambling. I hope many of your frustrations may resolve soon.
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Is there any way to save money other than freezing yourself out? It's not actually that healthy or good for one's immune system to be cold all the time, especially as we -- sigh -- get older. Though you are a spring chicken compared to me, so perhaps this isn't so much of an issue. You sound so miserable, though. Rope caulk, plastic over windows, anything like that? Though now I type it out, I realize you've probably done all that stuff already, so I'll stop it with the useless advice.
I love the word "Rumphy." It is so useful and expressive.
I wanted to say too that polyamory, regardless of whether the people involved are alive or not, often means not having the arrangements you wish you could, especially when involvements begin later in life and everybody has years of accreted habits and possessions and routines. I lost more than a year of time with my partner I don't live with, from March of 2020 to May of 2021. Now that there are rapid antigen tests, we hope not to end up subsisting only on phone calls and masked outdoor meetings again, but it's very hard to predict the future. In my house, there was just an automatic bubble, but he doesn't live in my house, for a lot of reasons, including a serious lack of space.
Enough rambling. I hope many of your frustrations may resolve soon.
P.