time again for the long johns

My roommates and I moved into our current place of living on February 24 of this year, a sunny but brisk Saturday. After the snow storm that came the following day, we quickly learned that our house was damn cold. Or at least, the half of the house where Matt and I were going to be living was damn cold. When we turned on the emergency heat, it got a smidge warmer, but we also learned that doing so would jack up the electric bill.

We called the landlords about it, because, well, we didn't want to die. They came to investigate and told us that when the house was built, whoever built it left out the insulation of the ducts. So the air was being heated, but as soon as it was being sent through the house, it lost all the warmth. Landlord's conclusion? It's not our fault, and turn off your porch light if you are worried about a high electric bill. WHAAA?! But I'm wearing 3 sweatshirts, 2 pairs of sweatpants, and 4 blankets when I sleep!! Instead of having a house warming party, we had a Warm-Our-House-Please-We-Need-Body-Heat-to-Survive Party.

Then the landlords came back and "added insulation." But by this time it was April, and the temperature increased. So we never really knew if what they did fixed the problem.

So last night we determined that it didn't. It's getting a bit more chilly out, so we had the heat on all day. The temperature outside reached 60 degrees, yet it was 55 in our house last night. Matt and I were exasperatingly discussing the situation, through our teeth chatters. We determined that even though we were hating life for 2 months when we first moved in, it did eventually warm up. But now that the temperature has finally cooled down this year, we still have 4 months of cold misery before our lease is up...

Some snippets from our conversation:

Matt: "Don't be surprised if you wake up and I'm curled up next to you."

Bri: "I shouldn't have been complaining about the 90 degree weather last week."
Matt: "Yeah, now it's coming back and biting you in the ass."
Bri: "It's FROST-biting me in the ass!"

Matt: "This is the kind of cold where you fall asleep and you don't wake back up."

I made sure he woke up this morning...