A Christmas Miracle that Literally Warms My Heart

Regular readers know that I'm not buying or accepting material gifts this year. But I'm making a quasi-exception right now.

Background: If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know we don't have a furnace and decided with the uncertain economy and all, we'd put off buying one for another year. Unfortunately, we also had the ceiling of our garage taken out to update our electrical work and ripped out a huge, crumbling brick chimney running through the middle of the house, so there's even less insulation and a big hole in our house.

Simply put: We are *dying.* Olivia and Geoff and the cats and I are basically the grandparents from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, all huddled under a pile of blankets with coats, fingerless gloves, leg warmers-- whatever layers we can find. It's somehow colder in the house than it is outside. The cleaning people came in Friday and looked at me sort of stunned and said, "Wow, it's freezing in here!" YES. WE. KNOW. My coffee gets ice cold in about 10 minutes, and then I just have to drink cold coffee because we don't have a microwave either. This is the opulent world of San Francisco home ownership.

As a result, I've become this crazy heat obsessed junky who checks out heat sources in every home or business I've gone into. I was wowed by the heat generating power of these bad boys at my Pilates studio. So, we ordered THREE of them from Amazon in various sizes. And guess what? Thanks to all the Amazon affiliate money we made from people clicking on that button to your left and buying my book, we got them for free! Thanks to Amazon Prime the shipping was free! It's the closest thing to a Christmas miracle that my ice-cased brain can imagine. And they just arrived. Thank God I hewed closely to blogger central casting today and didn't jump in the shower and miss the FedEx guy bearing this beautiful gift of heat.

Just more reasons I'm convinced Amazon is the only first gen e-commerce company that gets it. And, of course, one more reason I am grateful to anyone who bought my book via sarahlacy.com.