Hair Snake to the Rescue!

Right now, all I can do is complain, because all I can think about is how to get warm. I'm cold. My toes are cold, my nose is cold and my teeth are cold, but there is no point in turning up the thermostat because it is impossible to keep this apartment warm without tripling my electric bill. I do not own. I rent. If I owned, perhaps I would heat with gas; they say it's less expensive. I am sorry to say I will probably be complaining every day now for two months at least because winter has arrived in earnest. At 10:14 PM it is 19°, wind chill makes it feel like 16. I am doing everything the articles say to be warm. I am wearing layers and have two blankets and a comforter over the lower half of my body. I am sitting on my bed. I am wearing a hat and a scarf and my space heater is running in my room where I am staying. The door is open so the warm air can go into other parts of the apartment. Maybe the heater will not have to kick on so often. They say space heaters are more efficient than central heating when it's cold like this. Last night, I said I was going to stay in all day today because it was going to be so cold and I had the front door taped shut. That is, I put tape over the space between the door and the door frame on the side where it opens, because the cold was rushing in through there. Thankfully, in the middle of the sunny afternoon, I was able to take the tape off and go get gas and get my oil checked at the super fantastic unique in all the world full-service gas station we have here, and I was a quart low. After getting gas and oil, I went to the hardware store to get a plunger (the one I had finally wore out). I probably should have gotten a more expensive one than the one I had. Instead, I think I just got a new one exactly like the one that wore out. But that's what you do when you're trying to save money. They had fancy ones, more expensive ones, but I just got one like the one I was used to. I don't use plungers very often, thank goodness. I'd had that thing probably at least as long as I've been in this place--17 years. And I am guessing I bought it at the same place because it looks exactly the same as the old one except it's new. I am sure there must be a spiritual message in that, but I cannot speculate at this moment. All I can do is listen to my little space heater blowing, and thank God for that little space heater. It's a lifesaver, let me tell you. Oh, at the hardware store, the other thing I went for was weather tape. The clerk sent me on a bunny trail to an aisle that had every kind of tape you can imagine except weather tape because weather tape was in a completely different section of the store. I asked another guy roaming around in the store and he was a great help. I asked him about the problem I'm having with my bathroom sink. Well, let me tell you what, I discovered something very helpful today. One time I had to ask the landlord to come unclog my bathroom sink, and I didn't want to bother him with that again, so I went looking for something to help me unclog my bathroom sink. I really didn't want to get those horrible products that have chemicals so strong they advise you to wear goggles when you use them. Those products probably poison half the population with all their advice about what to do if the stuff touches your hands. Even so, I got a bottle of something anyway. But the guy showed me this thing he called a "snake." Why had I not seen one of these things before? The thing was a "hair snake." You stick it down your drain and pull it out all full of the junk that is in your bathroom sink drain pipe. Yes, it is gross, but I'll tell you, what a Godsend. The sink drained immediately and I took the nasty chemical laden "Liquid Plumr," or whatever it was, back to the hardware store and got my refund. Thank you, Lord. So, I went there for two items, a plunger and weather tape, and got a plunger, weather tape and a hair snake. The best thing I have seen in a long time for a very practical use. And now I don't have to worry about that nasty chemical gunk anymore, ever. I hope some of you might have learned something. I wish someone had told me about this great invention earlier, so I hope I may have saved someone else years of stress and hundreds of dollars in plumber bills when you could have had a hair snake all the time. PS, I've also been having trouble with my Zero water filter, but I'll save that one for tomorrow. Bet you can't wait! And, by the way, I'm finally warm. Thanks for hanging with me.