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After everyone had gone home and I was sitting around Christmas night replaying the day in my mind, I began thinking about the electric blanket I had gotten for my bachelor son. His apartment gets chilly at night and I figured it was something he’d get a lot of use from.
As I was sitting there on the couch thinking about it, suddenly a very old light bulb popped on in my head and I remembered another Christmas a long time ago when our kids were small and my ex and I lived in the very same house that Jess now lives in today with Myles and Marissa.
It was also Christmas night in this memory and we had purchased one of those new electric-type blankets for our bed. About nine o’clock I decided to take this brand new blanket/toy with duel controls upstairs and put it on our bed.
Eddie (my ex) was still downstairs watching a ballgame when I announced that I was going to bed. Upstairs I went with the blanket in tow. Spreading it out on the bed, I attached the electrical cords to the bottom of the blanket and then ran each of the two controls up the sides of the bed, putting one on my nightstand and one on his.
All of a sudden I had the bright idea to sleep in the nude. Since I was going to be sleeping underneath a warm, cozy blanket all night, I thought it might be fun.
Slipping in between the sheets I turned the blanket on low. After a few minutes when I didn’t feel any heat coming from the wires in the blanket, I turned it up a little higher. The bed now seemed a bit warmer but I couldn’t tell if it was from the electric blanket or simply the heat from my body.
I must have fallen asleep because the next time I woke up I was cold and turned the controls beside my bed up another notch.
Sometime in the night Eddie must have gotten into bed but I didn’t wake up when he did. All I remember is that I was still cold and the blanket didn’t seem to be working the way I had envisioned that it would work. Finally in the middle of the night I put it up as high as it would go. I really didn’t see where these blankets were all that great! At this point, I was beginning to think that they were way overrated.
Next morning as I woke up I stretched out my hand to awaken Eddie and tell him that I thought we had gotten a defective electric blanket.
As I felt across the other half of the bed there was no Eddie; instead there was just a large wet spot that stretched the entire length of the bed!
At just that very moment Eddie came into the bedroom and I told him, “There’s something wrong with this blanket. It didn’t work at all.”
“That blanket-blank thing!” he barked, “We’re getting our money back! It was already too hot when I got into bed and the lower I turned it, the hotter it got! Finally I turned the damned thing off completely and it still kept on heating! The sweat was pouring off of me so about six o’clock in the morning I finally got up and took a shower! My pajamas were wringing wet with sweat!”
As I lay there listening to his tirade, it suddenly dawned on me what had happened and I began to giggle hysterically.
Evidently while connecting the wires to the blanket, I had accidentally switched the controls. All night long he had been turning my side of the blanket down while the colder I had gotten, the higher I had continued to turn his side up.
Christmas Night, as I related this story to my Richmond son who was home for Christmas, we sat on the couch, once again laughing hysterically at this Saga of the Electric Blanket.
It was too good to keep to myself any longer! I knew all of you would get a kick out of hearing about it. I even got permission from my ex to tell it. Of course I plied him with several pieces of Million Dollar Fudge first, just to mellow him out.
I imagine that there are a lot of you out there playing with your new toys this Christmas - me included. I received something called a Nook. It’s a type of I-Pad that lets you do just about anything that you can do on your computer and it’s only the size of a book! You can download songs on it, take pictures with it, as well as check your e-mail and facebook. The best feature is being able to purchase novels from on-line book stores and download them onto this thing. You can then read them page-by-page, with a simple flick of your finger!
It stores up to 800 books on there, too!
My son got an i-Pod that does just about everything that my nook does and even lets him change his heating controls and lights at his home in Richmond, from my home in Westernport! He can download thousands of his favorite songs and albums on it and can also play it through his car stereo.
Even Marissa, who is just 5, has her own i-pad that is made especially for kids and comes with games and applications that can be upgraded as her levels of learning develop. It’s called a Leapster Explorer Leappad.
Whether your family got a new laptop, a gigantic flat-screen tv, or some other kind of toy, for most of us the Christmas of 2011 was an “electronic Christmas.”
And the bad part of the whole thing is that 20 years from now, our kids will be looking back on this as “the good ole days.” Who knows what the latest gadget in the year 2031 will be? It kind of boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
I hope this Christmas was a good one for you and that 2012 will be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for you and your loved ones, too.
Hey! It could happen!
I hope so!
After everyone had gone home and I was sitting around Christmas night replaying the day in my mind, I began thinking about the electric blanket I had gotten for my bachelor son. His apartment gets chilly at night and I figured it was something he’d get a lot of use from.
As I was sitting there on the couch thinking about it, suddenly a very old light bulb popped on in my head and I remembered another Christmas a long time ago when our kids were small and my ex and I lived in the very same house that Jess now lives in today with Myles and Marissa.
It was also Christmas night in this memory and we had purchased one of those new electric-type blankets for our bed. About nine o’clock I decided to take this brand new blanket/toy with duel controls upstairs and put it on our bed.
Eddie (my ex) was still downstairs watching a ballgame when I announced that I was going to bed. Upstairs I went with the blanket in tow. Spreading it out on the bed, I attached the electrical cords to the bottom of the blanket and then ran each of the two controls up the sides of the bed, putting one on my nightstand and one on his.
All of a sudden I had the bright idea to sleep in the nude. Since I was going to be sleeping underneath a warm, cozy blanket all night, I thought it might be fun.
Slipping in between the sheets I turned the blanket on low. After a few minutes when I didn’t feel any heat coming from the wires in the blanket, I turned it up a little higher. The bed now seemed a bit warmer but I couldn’t tell if it was from the electric blanket or simply the heat from my body.
I must have fallen asleep because the next time I woke up I was cold and turned the controls beside my bed up another notch.
Sometime in the night Eddie must have gotten into bed but I didn’t wake up when he did. All I remember is that I was still cold and the blanket didn’t seem to be working the way I had envisioned that it would work. Finally in the middle of the night I put it up as high as it would go. I really didn’t see where these blankets were all that great! At this point, I was beginning to think that they were way overrated.
Next morning as I woke up I stretched out my hand to awaken Eddie and tell him that I thought we had gotten a defective electric blanket.
As I felt across the other half of the bed there was no Eddie; instead there was just a large wet spot that stretched the entire length of the bed!
At just that very moment Eddie came into the bedroom and I told him, “There’s something wrong with this blanket. It didn’t work at all.”
“That blanket-blank thing!” he barked, “We’re getting our money back! It was already too hot when I got into bed and the lower I turned it, the hotter it got! Finally I turned the damned thing off completely and it still kept on heating! The sweat was pouring off of me so about six o’clock in the morning I finally got up and took a shower! My pajamas were wringing wet with sweat!”
As I lay there listening to his tirade, it suddenly dawned on me what had happened and I began to giggle hysterically.
Evidently while connecting the wires to the blanket, I had accidentally switched the controls. All night long he had been turning my side of the blanket down while the colder I had gotten, the higher I had continued to turn his side up.
Christmas Night, as I related this story to my Richmond son who was home for Christmas, we sat on the couch, once again laughing hysterically at this Saga of the Electric Blanket.
It was too good to keep to myself any longer! I knew all of you would get a kick out of hearing about it. I even got permission from my ex to tell it. Of course I plied him with several pieces of Million Dollar Fudge first, just to mellow him out.
I imagine that there are a lot of you out there playing with your new toys this Christmas - me included. I received something called a Nook. It’s a type of I-Pad that lets you do just about anything that you can do on your computer and it’s only the size of a book! You can download songs on it, take pictures with it, as well as check your e-mail and facebook. The best feature is being able to purchase novels from on-line book stores and download them onto this thing. You can then read them page-by-page, with a simple flick of your finger!
It stores up to 800 books on there, too!
My son got an i-Pod that does just about everything that my nook does and even lets him change his heating controls and lights at his home in Richmond, from my home in Westernport! He can download thousands of his favorite songs and albums on it and can also play it through his car stereo.
Even Marissa, who is just 5, has her own i-pad that is made especially for kids and comes with games and applications that can be upgraded as her levels of learning develop. It’s called a Leapster Explorer Leappad.
Whether your family got a new laptop, a gigantic flat-screen tv, or some other kind of toy, for most of us the Christmas of 2011 was an “electronic Christmas.”
And the bad part of the whole thing is that 20 years from now, our kids will be looking back on this as “the good ole days.” Who knows what the latest gadget in the year 2031 will be? It kind of boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
I hope this Christmas was a good one for you and that 2012 will be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for you and your loved ones, too.
Hey! It could happen!
I hope so!
