Everyone has had those winter mornings. Everything was going great. You were having the most wonderful dream of your life, snuggled up under the covers. Then, doom strikes. Your alarm goes off and cold harsh reality violently shakes you awake. Literally.
It feels like jack frost himself stuck his icy fingers under your blanket and is groping your toes, maliciously trying to make your morning as uncomfortable as possible. So, you burrito yourself in your blanket, and find a few moments of temporary serenity.
However, we all know it cannot last, your alarm has already rung, and the clock is ticking! But the outside world seems anything but inviting… But, what can we do? So, you grit your teeth, rip off your covers, and jump out of bed. Jack Frost ain’t done with you yet though…
Ice! The hard stone floor makes you immediately regret your life choices for a solid half a second, before you run to your cabinet, rip out a pair of mismatched socks, and throw them on to stave off Ol’ Jack’s unwelcome grasp.
Your feet might have some barrier against the cold, but you are still shivering from head to ankle. All you want is to jump back under your supernal blanket and continue your lovely dream about winning big at Casino Coupon Codes.
And it’s not just when you get up. Throughout the day, it feels like Jack Frost is shadowing you. You have a few moments of respite in a heated lobby or classroom, but you still feel like someone’s icy breath is breezing on the back of your neck. You’re warm and cold at the same time…
It does not have to be this way though! A constant winter chill doesn’t have to be an unfortunate part of your day. There are some simple things anyone can do to start having a warmer and more welcoming day!
Warmer PJs
Believe me, I’m the last person who’ll tell you your pink penguin pajamas gotta go. However, when taking into account the ever-constant war between you, your desire to stay in bed, and the petrifying feeling that inevitably comes with having to get out of the warm bed and into the frigid not-bed, I think some concessions have to be made.
Proper attire needs to be chosen for its proper time. One would not wear a tuxedo to Mcdonald’s, and so too one shouldn’t try to force their favorite summer pajamas into the winter. This means trying our best to keep the warmth as a protective bubble around us, and not just as a safe habitat on our beds.
If our goal is to help you get up and out of your safe haven, then that means we need a space suit. Not really, but close enough. Think about it, you wouldn’t walk out of a space station without a suit on would you?
We need to think of your cold room as the horrific and cold depths of space. That means we need to suit you up. Get a nice thick and soft fleece pair of PJs, and you can add on to them. Throwing a hoodie on top or putting long johns underneath are also good ideas. We want to get to the point where we only need the blanket for comfort and emotional reasons such as not feeling so lonely, or that feeling of being hugged by the covers, and not for the staying warm part.
Scarfs
After I discovered the incredible power of the scarf, I felt I had lived my whole life as a blind plebian. It was so simple, so elegant, such a small piece of what felt like such a large puzzle, yet without it, the picture could never be complete.
I would wonder constantly why the Cold’s icy fingers would seem to grip against me, no matter how many coats I threw on. It simply felt like some sick game, where I would try my best to outsmart the elements, but would always fail. Inevitably being subjugated to a rather unpleasant walk from my home to my place of learning. I would be somewhat warm, yet cold nonetheless.
And then, one day, a friend of mine said something offhandedly that would change how I fight the winter forever. He simply told me how he wears a scarf because, without it, he seems to get colds very easily from being chilly.
I didn’t think much of it until later when I found a new weapon to add to my arsenal against Ol’ Jack Frost; an old scarf in one of my dresser drawers. I reverently pulled it out and wrapped it carefully around my neck.
And that was the moment that I realized just how critical scarves are for keeping warm. It really makes sense as well. 2 large blood vessels travel up your neck, to your brain. So, by keeping these blood highways nice and insulated, you protect a major conduit from getting cold and chilling the rest of your body.
There is also simply the fact that a chilly wind on the back of your neck, for some reason, can feel quite cold. Cold enough to send shivers down our spine and be just uncomfortably not warm enough.
Hats
Another big region of blood flow is our scalps. That big greedy brain of yours needs a lot of energy and materials to keep itself running, so naturally, the body expends a lot of recourses to keep it running.
Which, to the best of our knowledge, is a big reason we have lovely keratinous fibers on our noggins called hairs. Hair, being a lovely insulator, keeps our big ol’ heads warm and protects them from any unwanted winter assaults by churning chilly troublemaking winds.
However, depending on how cold it is out and how long your hair is, our natural defenses can be pitifully weak against the wrath of nature. So, we were granted the wonderful ability to use that head we are trying to protect to make really useful stuff, such as a hat to protect the thing that makes us smart enough to think up hats in the first place.
For anyone who has worn a hat and taken it off outside when it was cold out, you will realize just how cold your head can really get. You’ll be wanting to stuff your skull into the hat again down to your eyebrows before you can say, “wow it sure is chilly outside.”
Carpet
Have you ever wanted to feel like you were a royal king, but not in an arrogant egotistical way? Perhaps you wanted to feel like the great hero coming home from saving the kingdom, peasants groveling at his feet, but in an, “I’m into fantasy” way and not a psychopath way?
I present to you, the simple rug! Having to place your feet on the cold floor is a great way for anyone to say “not a chance,” and roll over after having groggily slapped the snooze button on their alarm clock with the gusto of a hungover smurf.
However, with a simple thing called thermal insulation, you can get all the way from your bed to your cabinet without having to submit your feet to inhumane torture! Simply roll out some fancy-looking rugs from your bed to your dresser. Next thing you know, you can feel like a special prince or princess you are all while playing an all-to-real game of the floor is lava-ish!
