"Just in case," as well as until you can walk about at night with reasonable certainty that you're not going to have (or cause) any mishaps (to you or to wardrobes or other things---dishes come to mind, as breakables---respectively), do you have either "hurricane" candlesticks; or oil lamps ("paraffin," I think you call them); or, although these are just about useless for task lighting, they're all right for allowing you to navigate the room, vegetable oil lamps, the Roman/Greek/Biblical lamps of antiquity?
One of the nicest aspects of the vegetable oil lamp is that if it should tip or spill, the oil itself will douse the flame. (You can give the wick material a tug and pull the lit end of it under the oil and *ssppffft!* it's snuffed out. Can't do that with lamp oil or paraffin lamps, as that fuel is a petroleum distillate with a comparatively low flash point.
In quite a lot of the U.S., your rent would be dirt cheap for even a studio apartment (one main room incorporating the kitchen; no separate bedroom and often not even a sleeping alcove for your bed; in most communities today you would have a private bath-cum-toilet all your own with your unit.) It depends, of course, on where you live. Where I am, what you're paying would net you a nice one- or two-bedroom (depends!) in a modern building with an elevator and probably a front desk, staffed during daylight hours.
Elsewhere, it wouldn't even pay rent on a studio, if you want a half-way decent/safe neighborhood unless you have a roomie.
And regarding subscriptions, I doubt that many people are muttering; certainly not those who comment in your journal! What the subscriber gets for his money is where his or her concerns begin and end. As long as they're getting what they pay for, they have little or nothing to say about what you do with the salary you pay yourself from your business.
And as for feeling as if you've moved to Canada...I doubt this will console you much, but winter in a lot of Canada is actually milder than it is here in northeast Ohio.
Your magic home sounds just that---magical! Happy Home-making and Happy Housewarming! (You are going to have a housewarming party, right? In which we'll get to share vicariously?)
One of the nicest aspects of the vegetable oil lamp is that if it should tip or spill, the oil itself will douse the flame. (You can give the wick material a tug and pull the lit end of it under the oil and *ssppffft!* it's snuffed out. Can't do that with lamp oil or paraffin lamps, as that fuel is a petroleum distillate with a comparatively low flash point.
In quite a lot of the U.S., your rent would be dirt cheap for even a studio apartment (one main room incorporating the kitchen; no separate bedroom and often not even a sleeping alcove for your bed; in most communities today you would have a private bath-cum-toilet all your own with your unit.)
It depends, of course, on where you live. Where I am, what you're paying would net you a nice one- or two-bedroom (depends!) in a modern building with an elevator and probably a front desk, staffed during daylight hours.
Elsewhere, it wouldn't even pay rent on a studio, if you want a half-way decent/safe neighborhood unless you have a roomie.
And regarding subscriptions, I doubt that many people are muttering; certainly not those who comment in your journal! What the subscriber gets for his money is where his or her concerns begin and end. As long as they're getting what they pay for, they have little or nothing to say about what you do with the salary you pay yourself from your business.
And as for feeling as if you've moved to Canada...I doubt this will console you much, but winter in a lot of Canada is actually milder than it is here in northeast Ohio.
Your magic home sounds just that---magical! Happy Home-making and Happy Housewarming! (You are going to have a housewarming party, right? In which we'll get to share vicariously?)
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