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Hazards of working from home
Repetitive Strain Injury.
Writer’s Bottom.
Feline-inflicted Injuries Due to Smacking Her When She Walks Across Keyboard.
Falling Asleep at Laptop and Accidentally Typing fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff For Six Hundred Lines.
Slowly Solidifying in Chair Due to Extreme Cold of Unheated House.
The alleviation of many of these conditions is a little tricky (I’m currently experimenting with a mix of pen and tablet, vertical mouse, mini keyboard, exercise DVD and water pistol).
I have, however, found what is, in my opinion, the Ultimate Cure for the last condition. I present it to you below.
This is me wrapped in my Slanket (TheSlanket.com), staying toasty warm even halfway through the day when everyone else is out and the heating’s been off for hours. My hands are free to type, but every other bit of me, including my feet and the cold drafty bit around my neck, is snuggled up and cosy. The only thing that makes me sad is I couldn’t get a grey version. I was planning on accessorising with a staff and marching round the house declaring, “You shall not pass!” to any family members (or Balrogs) I might meet.
But for warmth and comfort, as opposed to duelling with Balrogs, the Slanket, any colour, is the answer.
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I shall read all your blog to get inspired, how to write good blog like you.
Thanks.
I love my Slanket with an unholy love. Over the winter I purchased one for myself, my husband, my daughter, my husband, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my best friend. That would be 7 Slankets within the space of a few months. They are in a rainbow of colors and mine keeps me cozy, happy and comforted!
Is that the UK version of the Snuggie? (www.getsnuggie.com)
[[You shall not pass!]] ROFL! I have a giant, brown fleece shawl that almost reaches my ankles. For several years my kids and the neighbor kids would ask to borrow it so they could be a Hobbit for Halloween. :)
PLEASE let me know when you come up with the cure for Writer’s Bottom. I myself am working on a lovely case of Recliner Rictus, in which my spine is slowly molding to the shape of my “office” (i.e. La-Z-Boy). :)
Tina, that is an unholy love! I love that you can get child sizes and travel slankets, too, so everyone can be cosy.
Carolan, yes, totally. I like the word Snuggie better, actually.
Hobbit cloaks, hooray. My husband sometimes calls me a Jedi Master in my red Slanket, but obviously the colour’s not right. And oh dear to the Recliner Rictus. I don’t know what cure there might be for that!
OMG!!! That is FUNNY!! I think I will get myself one now just from reading this. I have to get a grey one…I am dying to try my hand at being Gandolf :) Think I could dye a white one or bleach out a black one?
Ref: I was planning on accessorising with a staff and marching round the house…
The staff! That’s what I’m missing in my life. LOL!
LOL
As a person who has worked from home for over 10 years, I’ve got more pairs of pajamas — comfy ones not slinky— to work in. My poor husband, he leaves for work in the morning I’m in one pair of jammies. He comes home and I’ve showered and slipped into a different pair. Working from home is awesomely comfortable! And I shall have to look into getting myself a slanket. I think it will go well with my plaid flannels.
Thanks for visiting and commenting. :-)
For next winter I have the ambition of getting fingerless cashmere gloves too. And maybe very thick over-the-knee socks. And, of course, a staff.
At least it makes a good way of deterring door-to-door salesman and other unwanted callers. ;-)
Just an FYI for those perspective Slanket buyers – a Slanket and a Snuggie are NOT the same. The Slanket is longer, wider, softer and heavier. You can get adult sizes, child sizes and Siamese sized (for two!). The Slanket you can only get online as far as I know.
The Suggie is the Slanket rip off. It’s short, narrow and thin fleece.
Who do I know this? As an unholy Slanket lover I have done my market research (read, purchased a Snuggie to compare) and the Snuggie….it sux! The Slanket costs more but is much higher quality. I wash my every week because my dogs and cat love it as much as I do.
I’m sad to see the end of winter because that means the Slanket gets packed in cedar until fall.
Oh, that’s useful to know, Tina, thanks! My Slanket is ridiculously huge, it’s true, but when your main aim is keeping warm that’s a big plus!
Immi
Very cool, I really liked it. Do you know of somewhere I can check out more about it?