Jamál (Beauty), 14 Mashíyyat (Will), 167 BE – Sunday, October 10, 2010 about 1:26 PM Pacific Time
It's Sunday afternoon and I have a full week ahead. Monday is Columbus Day and I think the schools are closed. I don't know what else will be closed Monday. I had plans to go pick up some free food and a couple of loaves of day old bread; however, I'm not sure if the places I plan to go will be open.
I may just take the chance they will be open and go tomorrow. Mom is usually in a much better mood is she gets out of the house, so it may be worth the trip. I would prefer to make just one trip to the places I'm going, but if they are closed tomorrow then I'll have to go back on Wednesday.
I can't go on Tuesday morning because I'm having someone come in the check the heating system. If we need the heat this winter I'll turn the system on, so I ave to have it checked before November. I'm hoping we can get by without heat this winter. We're still trying to pay off the cooling bill from summer. The biggest part of the electric bill is the cold air in summer and the warm air in winter.
If I can keep the unit off, the electric bill runs less then $100.00, but if we use the unit then the bill is over $200.00. That takes a large chunk of the budget and we're on a fixed income. Living on a fixed income sucks, if I could take a job outside the house it would help. However, Mom can't stay by herself and I can't afford a paid caregiver.
I make a little money online, but that isn't enough to pay the power bill when we use the central air. I think it's central air we have, all though it could be a heat pump. I'll have to ask the tech on Tuesday when he arrives what type of unit we have. Oh well, things will work out, I just have to keep on keeping on.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
An update on the air conditioner issues
Fidál (Grace), 17 ‘Azamat (Grandeur), 166 BE – Tuesday, June 2, 2009 about 5:05 AM Pacific Time
We still don't have a working air conditioner. The soonest we can get it fixed is Thursday, so today I'm going to make an appointment for Thursday morning. Then I can catch up on the on-line work and meeting deadlines. I don't have anything due until Friday until 9:59 Pacific time and I can spend all day Friday completing that project.
In the mean time, I'm doing the majority of my writing off line using a pen and paper. It's been a long time since I've written so much using anything except a keyboard. I can still read my own handwriting, most of the time, the biggest problem with writing that way is my creative spelling. Sometimes, the way I spell a word and it's actually spelling are worlds apart.
I check the temperature at 2:30 AM, when I got up, and again at 4:00 AM, when the alarm went off. The temperature appears to cool down between those times; therefore, I think tonight I'll sleep in my own bed instead of on the couch. There isn't any use getting up until I can work on-line for a little while in the mornings.
This is my own fault, of course. I don't have any emergency fund, which I intend to correct by opening a saving account this month. It only takes $25.00 to open the account, I think between the aluminum cans in my trunk and a little from my Social Security Check I will find the money for that. It doesn't help right now, but it will help in the future. The idea is to learn something from the tests and difficulties faced. Education of the individual is a part of transformation.
We still don't have a working air conditioner. The soonest we can get it fixed is Thursday, so today I'm going to make an appointment for Thursday morning. Then I can catch up on the on-line work and meeting deadlines. I don't have anything due until Friday until 9:59 Pacific time and I can spend all day Friday completing that project.
In the mean time, I'm doing the majority of my writing off line using a pen and paper. It's been a long time since I've written so much using anything except a keyboard. I can still read my own handwriting, most of the time, the biggest problem with writing that way is my creative spelling. Sometimes, the way I spell a word and it's actually spelling are worlds apart.
I check the temperature at 2:30 AM, when I got up, and again at 4:00 AM, when the alarm went off. The temperature appears to cool down between those times; therefore, I think tonight I'll sleep in my own bed instead of on the couch. There isn't any use getting up until I can work on-line for a little while in the mornings.
This is my own fault, of course. I don't have any emergency fund, which I intend to correct by opening a saving account this month. It only takes $25.00 to open the account, I think between the aluminum cans in my trunk and a little from my Social Security Check I will find the money for that. It doesn't help right now, but it will help in the future. The idea is to learn something from the tests and difficulties faced. Education of the individual is a part of transformation.
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