Amy's Blog

I got a load of stuff done today. I have really needed like a full day to just get shit organized in my house. I reorganized one of our cupboards and cleaned up the computer room so all the extra computer bits aren’t just lieing on the floor, but are actually stored away. This meant I could actually VACUUM that room which is really important seeing as we may have a bit of a flea infestation still. I vacuumed the whole house very thoroughly today, including all around the baseboards etc again. And the animals are treated. So the house just feels like a better place. I also organized all our sheet music collection so I can find things again. We have a ton of music. I even found some of our duets I thought we had lost, so tonight we played through a few more, including one we had never learned before so that was really fun. I actually played quite a bit today, because in between cleaning and organizing I kept picking my cello up for bits here and there. I started playing actual music today, not just etudes.

The shitty thing that happened today was, we ran out of oil again. I knew it was going to happen because the weather has just gotten colder, and that’s always when it happens. It wasn’t too bad until later this evening, when the house really started to cool down. We have a space heater on in the living room which makes it tolerable in there. I had to run out and buy a second heater for our fish tank, since the one from Petcetera was barely adequate when the room temperature was normal (now it’s 61 degrees in here and dropping, we normally keep it at 66 during the day and 68 in the evenings when we are at home and up). Still pissed off about that piece of shit heater but don’t know what we are going to do about it. The new heater will be enough on its own, once we have heat again. Apparantly the oil is being delivered tomorrow morning, so we won’t be cold for long. Other times this has happened to us, we have been without heat for several days.

I was really pissed off earlier, because we have been planning on getting a heat pump, and it’s just been taking so long for it to happen. I don’t think it’s anybody’s fault in particular, because Trevor (upstairs neighbor) and Peter (downstairs neighbor) have been working really hard to get all the permits and everything we need to get it installed. But I’m just starting to feel fed up with the whole idea. I want to be warm NOW. Last winter we ran out so many times because we kept thinking the heat pump was just round the corner.

But it sounds like we are actually getting the heat pump, for real, before the end of the year. So, I am over feeling like I don’t even want it anymore afterall. I know it will be a great thing once it’s here and working. It’s just such a bitch freezing to death in the mean time. It would have made more sense to me to pay for oil this winter, on a payment/auto-delivery plan, and then got the heat pump in the summer when we don’t even need the furnace. Of course, the logic behind getting it ASAP is that there is money to be saved by doing so. I can’t argue with that, and I have to be grateful for the work my housemates are putting in on this project. I just wish it wasn’t taking so long.

Well anyway that’s enough of a rant. Like I said, I think it’s all going to work out. If we don’t get the heat pump before the half tank of oil that is getting delivered tomorrow runs out, I will probably shit a brick and possibly go postal on everyone who was ever involved in the idea of having a heat pump. But we will see.