Dreary Days of Winter

It is well into fall here and we are waiting for our heat to turn on. 17 people in our apartment haven't been paying bills apparently and so the hot water has been off/sporadic since the end of July and we wonder if the heat will actually come on at all.

Fortunately - Tuesday our apartment became the new home for a brand new water heater. Ah the bliss of a warm water out of a tap rather than a bucket. We are very thankful for our Landlord to buying it without any prodding or begging from us - in fact - up until the last two weeks - we were willing to stick it out till the building resolved the problem (then it started getting very very cold). Now with our little space heater or the oven happily baking squash, or muffins, or anything else i can think of to throw in it - we are quite content.