It's true!

I really got used to unregulated NYC apartment heat, where apartments are always warm, so I bundle up now, but I don't like it.

I'm not sure what temperature my apartment is at. I have electric heaters in some of the rooms. I have turned on the one in my bedroom, the one in the bathroom, the one in the kitchen and one of two in the living room.

My cat has taken to hanging out in front of the one in the kitchen so I know where it's the warmest.

I really got used to unregulated NYC apartment heat, where apartments are always warm

I didn't realize how warm my old apartment truly was until I moved here and felt was 68 was like. My old apartment must have been in the mid-70s or better. And, in retrospect, I wore short and t-shirts and no socks all winter long.

I think my gas bills in the winter are still less than they were in the apartment with forced air (via gas) but I'm not positive of that. Electric in the summer, even when I ran 3 window usits full blast, is cheaper. Which given this place is 2 (well, 3 if you count the basement, and you can only count that for heat since the pipes run across the ceiling) times bigger....

I really ought to insulate the lines in the basement (but I like it being warmish when I go down there for laundry or whatever!) and see about getting more insulation blown into the attic.

OMG y'all! I had Loki out on the back deck. He saw Pumpkin in the window and went into full battle-cry-whacko mode. So much noise and completely puffed up. I brought him inside and they sniffed noses like usual. Somehow, when she's Cat in the Window she's a stranger cat??

Weirdo. Now he's checking out the window where she was. So bizarre.

Now he's checking out the window where she was.

"Dude! There was someone else sitting right there when I was outside! Didn't you see them?"

OMG! CAT IN THE WINDOW!!!!!

Cat brain cross post.

Every so often, they prove it really is walnut sized.

Curiosity got the best of me: gas+ electric is a little higher in the winter than I paid in the apartment in 2007. But not 2x higher. Maybe 10-15% more. Quite reasonable. I think my furnace is from the late 80s/early 90s(?), so when it comes time to replace it, I'm sure I'll get even better efficiency.

Jesus, ita !, I can barely imagine getting some of M's presents, including a poster, back to PA. How do you wrangle a CAKE to LA from Jamaica?!

I think we keep it at 67. Dan's really skinny, so he's always cold, and I keep blankets on the couch and the loveseat.

The kitchen is FREEZING in the winter, since the last owners f the house decided to make the enclosed back porch (uninsulated) into a breakfast nook and knocked out the wall. We have foam insulate sliding "doors" there (plus a hole in the kitchen ceiling, thank you, welcome to my domicile in need of some reno) but the kitchen is always about 15 degrees colder than the rest of the downstairs. Which is AWESOME for cooking and cleaning.

The powder room off the kitchen is also an uninsulated add-on; it's nice to have a powder room downstairs, but that toilet gets COLD in the depths of winter!

Heat is 18-20C when I am home and awake. 15C at night and when I'm away.