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Last night the garage was too smoky for me to sleep in, so I slept in the entrance hall, just beside the garage (well, the garage door, anyway). It was colder there because heat rises and our heat was turned off. The ground was really cold at first, but it heated up and it got better after a while. I tried not to roll around too much, but I'm not sure what I did when I slept, although I did know that I woke up three times and each time I was exactly where I was supposed to be. I really wanted to move around but every time I tried to whatever part of my body touched the floor, it froze, so I had to stay in that one position the whole time. In the morning, when I decided it was late enough (like 8ish), I just gave up and went back upstairs.

And also I caught a cold.

I think that homeless people would have a really hard time if they caught a cold. They (mostly) don't have warm chicken soup, emphasis on warm, because among other things, the steam is supposed to help clear your nose. Also, it feels really bad to be outside in cold weather if you have a cold, even though I know you can't catch a cold by being cold. Although I suppose it would be harder for homeless people to catch a cold, if they aren't in contact and aren't inside for most of the winter/flu season... Nevertheless, cold weather just makes it harder to get better if you (by the slightest chance) get infected.

I think that the most important thing for us to knit would be hats. In the wintertime, you lose heat from the top of your head most, because you wear heavy clothes, but you often neglect or don't have a hat. Most homeless people might not think of having a hat, which means that they will be losing heat more from their head. If we knit hats, then more places are protected, which means that the homeless people will be able to keep warm better.