Friday

[alexandraerin]

News For Today

No new news, but the run-off for the Rose And Bay fiction award continues and so, for three more days, does the pre-sale for The Gift of the Bad Guy.

Personal Assessment

Slept better last night. Not great. Not awesome. Better. I believe I've worked out why I'm not sleeping so well all of a sudden: it's not getting nearly as cold on the overnights as it had been, which means my pile of blankets is uncomfortably hot. I did okay last night by splitting the difference and only using half of them.

I suppose this tells me I'll need to get a weighted blanket sooner than I'd expected... my half-formed plan had always been to get one in the summer, but there are rather a lot of months between now and then that aren't exactly going to be pleasant to get 20+* pounds of blankets the old-fashioned way.

The * is there because, while I estimate my current pile as being about 20 pounds based on the weights of similar blankets I could find listed online, more than one of the sites that I looked at mentioned that people who order a weighted blanket often end up trading up for a heavier one, and they offer a formula based on body mass that would be closer to 25 pounds.

This sort of thing looks to be like a two, three hundred dollar investment, which gives me pause... while that's less money I'll have available for WisCon and for funding other projects, it's not like I can say I can't afford it, and what price would you put on a good night's sleep?

Dreams From Last Night

Had to do with making it through some sort of combination of border crossing and TSA checkpoint.

Plans For Today

Write/finish the next chapter of Tales of MU.

Comments

Blankets

[renshan.livejournal.com]

If it is weight with no heat you're looking for, I think I can find you a chainmail blanket...

Re: Blankets

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

There may be comfort issues there apart from heat.

[krisw.livejournal.com]

I found this link (http://www.ehow.com/how_5525250_make-weighted-blanket.html) about how to make a weighted blanket. Doesn't sound like it should cost nearly so much as ordering one, might or might not work for you though.

also the following links:
this (http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/make-your-own-weighted-blanket.html)
or
this (http://www.weightedblanket.net/weightedblanketsize.htm)
may be interesting.

I don't know, I offer them up in case they help

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Labor is a cost. That's way more expensive.

[krisw.livejournal.com]

There is that, and I didn't mean to offend, just wanted to offer what paltry information I could in case you or someone you know might be able to make one.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

There are people I know who sew, but this is a specialized and somewhat labor-intensive thing and I'd rather have it done quickly and efficiently by someone who knows what they're doing than have it be one more project in some person's stack.

And if I got a friend to make one and it didn't work, I'd probably end up buying one anyway and then I'll possibly be offending someone or leaving them feeling like they've failed.

I know I need this, and I know I'm going to need it soon... it just makes more sense to buy one, to me.

Anyway, you didn't really offend me. If I were in a bad mood today I might have been offended at the idea that I wouldn't have come across these links in the process of researching the cost of a weighted blanket, but that's my issue.

I have a suspicion that I probably should have just said "Thank you for the information." or words to that effect, but it always feels horribly insincere when I'm not going to be using the information/advice I'm being given to not say so and explain why. I know on an intellectual level that most people would disagree with this, but that's just the way my brain works.

But, yes, thank you for the effort.

[brenda-ea.livejournal.com]

This makes me think of the lead aprons the dentist puts over you when you're getting your teeth X-rayed...

[meeksp.livejournal.com]

One thing to keep in mind when choosing blanket weight is that depending on your local climate, you may still need to add more blankets for several months out of the year.