I've recently moved a comfy couch to the patio and am considering picking up some mosquito netting so I can sleep outside.

When I lived in Boston we had a narrow back porch, and my gf and I would pull my mattress out there to sleep. It was so much cooler out in the open air during the summer, with the breeze.

It has to be way below freezing for me to wear socks, and then I would still kick them off at some point. Even on chilly nights my feet will pop out from time to time.

Like Jessica, naked under warm blankets with the window open is the best way to sleep on chilly nights.

Sleep - start on my side and roll to the other side, back and forth through the night. Two pillows, one for hugging. Top sheet, tucked in at the end of the bed but my feet must have a way to pop out from the covers when I need to regulate temperature. I typically set my iPhone to play music for 30 minutes as I fall asleep.

I'd love a No Rouz with buffistas - everyone cooking or visiting or pouring booze or hiding on the porch (I don't have a back set of stairs).

Matt - you asked about the candied orange peels. When I make this it is with other stuff, so if you just want the orange peels, you would need to fiddle around with the proportions.

As mentioned, peel a bunch of oranges, scrape off as much of the pith as possible, sliver the thin peel into small thin pieces. Then you boil the slivered orange peel in 3 cups of water for 5 minutes and drain. Put them back in a sauce pan with 6 slivered carrots, 3 cups of water, and 2 cups sugar and boil for 15 minutes. Drain.

I still need to buy down pillows. I went to Macy's last week and they were on sale for ½ off! But they were sold out.

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My friend S taught me the merits of two top sheets when she stayed with me for a few months. She and her husband have done it for years and it makes for a lot of peace on earth.

Personally I'm top sheet never tucked in feet naked and out entirely or in a blanket tent if bitterly cold. No or minimal jammies unless in non-romantic company or, again, bitterly cold. Window at least cracked if at all possible. I think I just like to feel air moving. If I'm driving and the vents are all closed I feel like I get twitchy and feel like I can't drive.

Nightmare Before Christmas has a lot of Henry Selick's vision in it. When you're directing stop-motion animation you're doing a lot of the "acting," after all. And he was primary or sole designer of the sets and all the characters except Jack. And, yes, he's a cousin which I know I've mentioned a bajillion times before.

I don't sleep with socks, but that's only because we have a heated mattress pad. In the summer, we don't use the heated mattress pad, but despite the a/c, I still don't need socks. But there's a weird No Man's Land of April, May, and September, where it's warm enough to not need the heated mattress pad but my feet get cold, so I do wear socks to bed then.

Top sheet, blanket, comforter (which REALLY needs a trip to the laundromat -- that xoJane article tipped me off as to how gross we are w/r/t the comforter), fan on, pretty much sleep on my side, and roll over pretty often. We both steal the covers, but don't want to switch to 2 sets of sheets, so it's an ongoing battle full of 3 a.m. thievery and recriminations over coffee.

I still need to buy down pillows. I went to Macy's last week and they were on sale for ½ off! But they were sold out.

Ikea! I have a mountain of the cheapest, fattest down ones. I think I'll get two thinner ones also for when I sleep on my side. My sleeping position amounts to "whateverthehell position I can fall asleep in." Sometimes my head at the foot of the bed works... started doing that as a kid and I have no idea why. Haven't tried that in a while, actually.

DH is a no covers sleeper unless very cold so I get All The Covers most of the time.

I discovered back in the day that pillows were fucking with my back--I switched to Tempurpedic about ten years ago, and it was one of the most clear improvements I made for my health. I can now sleep with a single flat normal pillow, if required, but for a while I travelled with a smaller Tempurpedic, or went without pillows at all--that was more comfortable.

I certainly haven't returned to my former two-pillow habits.

I always put socks on before going to sleep here--I used to pretend that it was a minor issue, but I would find myself getting angrier and angrier at my feet being a different temperature, and little ruined falling asleep more. I don't use them in Jamaica, but LA is rarely hot enough long enough for me to put them aside here.