Yes, the pillows and the blankets are feeling better all the time with the weather getting colder. My dog snuggles up and gives me a little warmth too. Sometimes he goes in a warms up Carol a bit, and that is nice. He used to belong to one of our granddaughters and she got him started to sleeping with her, and he thinks he needs to sleep with someone, and he is a good dog. He sleeps on my bed most of the time. It is a queen so there is enough room. He stays as close as he can day and night. When I go outside he is right with me trying to help me with whatever I am doing.
We were at the Mall of Asia that evening when the typhoon was the worst. The wind was bending the trees, and it was also raining hard with the wind blowing, and the rain water was coming right in the open end of that mall. They had someone there mopping water out as quickly as they could. My nephew was up in that area where the typhoon hit, and our filipina friend, wife of Al, texted him afterward, so I know he was okay, but there wasn't enough communication to learn anything from him.
Something hot to drink or like you say milk is good when it is cold. It has not been as cold here as it was before I left for the Philippines, but the cold will come again. It has been, not as cold, but cold with high humidity. They predicted first rain, then snow, but I think the snow is supposed to be at the higher elevations. We are at 2800 feet which is higher than the valley, but the snow is not supposed to come that low yet. I got a ton of pellets in the house, so we should be able to keep warm. We store them in a large walk in closet.
It is definately time to think about staying warm, and that may not always be easy, but we do the best we can. I really enjoyed the heat in Manila and Dumaguete City/Amlan! It gives me something to think about on cold days, and that even makes me feel warmer!