Because I can!

[lesbiassparrow]

You know how when you were a kid and you'd be cold and your parents would say 'go and put a jumper on' instead of turning the heat up and you would end up swaddled in clothes because the house was freezing? These days I find myself quite deliberately wearing things which are not warm at all but which I very much want to wear and putting the heat up because that is one of the pleasures of adulthood. Mind you, I live in Los Angeles so it never gets very cold but I put the heat on anyway.

Of course, the downside of this is that I am destroying the environment through excessive use of fuel, but I assuage my guilty conscience with all the years I didn't have a car and had to travel through Los Angeles using what they optimistically call a mass transit system.