cleanriot ([info]cleanriot) wrote,
@ 2005-10-29 01:33:00
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Dayings and nigthings
My duvet has turned into a thin excuse for a cover. I guess all the down took off into some fascinating unknown realm. That or turned into dust. Ashes even.

To compensate for the loss I turned to the closest thing available: boyfriend. As tempting as it was to use him as a new, warm cover I decided that I would spare him, especially since I tend to give my duvets quite a hard time, by twisting them around in a knot so fierce it would even have scared The Great Houdini.

I just all happened so fast. I can remember the day I got it. I was so young that I was actully angry about getting a new duvet. I liked my old one. I had worked it in. Grown used to it. I found this new one far too newfangled and outlandish. Hic.

This one has become as dear. But it's nearly useless. So instead of turning to the closest available, I turned to his property: his thick, rich and creamy duvet. I nicked it. Then I woke up one night and found my boy going: brrrrr in his sleep next to me. I was overcome with guilt. Rather I go cold. And I did. For a few nights I slept with my old duvet. Then, I couldn't handle it anymore. I stole the good duvet again. Next night I promised compensations if I could have it. Then the night after that I returned it to original owner. Etc.

Then I got a brilliant idea, and not a moment too soon! I took the OTHER duvet boyfriend had used during warm summers abroad. On it's own it was completely useless... but combined with my old useless one it made a good one. I put it into the covers of my old one, while giggling madly with the glee of invention. Boyfriend's suspicion got raised and he asked me from the next room what I was doing.

"Nothing"!

.... "heeheehee"...

Then I asked him if he didn't like his duvet.

"MY duvet? So this is why you were giggling you little grallari"

I just giggled some more, jubilant having solved the problem.

The day after he told me that the new duvet was really heavy. I couldn't understand why two shreds would suddenly become really heavy when put together, so I decided to try the new one. It was a bit on the heavy side, but it was also warm and soft and good. I concluded I should just keep it. I really like it, and I'm not getting a new new one. Got my old one, and boyfriend's old one, it's newfangled and outlandish but I love it still. And I'm warm and he's warm. Everybody's happy. And asleep



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[info]grapefruitmoon
2005-10-29 07:18 pm UTC (link)
In all my years of the giant duvet, I have never found an entire family. Sure, there have been stray Mexican individuals here and there, but never an entire family under my duvet.

I had a great time explaining what flat sheets are to a bunch of Germans in a French hotel. "No. We don't wrap all of our blankets in protective covers. This thing keeps that there wool blanket from being too scratchy. Yes. We use wool as blankets. It was the best idea we could come up with. Don't look at me like that, it's not my fault."

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[info]cleanriot
2005-10-29 07:40 pm UTC (link)
The idea was at the beginning of our relationship to get this one huge duvet, but my tendency to usurp the whole duvet (no matter how big it is) sorta canceled that idea. Svan and I used to share his duvet once and it always ended up the same way, me being wrapped up like a warm cinnamon bun and Svan lying going: bwrrrrrr. I even try to steal his also nowadays. If he leaves the bed for a short while he comes back finding me wrapped up in both ones.

It is a problem.

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