Being a homeowner is the fucking (and I fucking swore I would never cuss in writing — ever) pits!\u00c2\u00a0 This should make you realize the gravity of the situation..<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago I woke up and I was getting ready to hop in the shower.\u00c2\u00a0 I turn it on and wait for the water to get warm — I’m not freakin’ stupid, of course I’m going to wait until I’m sure that it’s warm.\u00c2\u00a0 After a minute I stuck my hand under the stream and it was still freezing cold.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought, “It’s just taking a while; I can give it a few more minutes.”\u00c2\u00a0 Ten minutes later it’s still freezing cold!<\/p>\n
Naturally, I woke Brian’s ass up!\u00c2\u00a0 At least I didn’t get my entire body wet with that freezing cold water — just my hand — but talk about a rude awakening!\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out we didn’t have any hot water because the pilot light on the water heater had gone out.\u00c2\u00a0 After reading the instructions, we were able to successfully relight it.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I had to spend the day all icky-sticky and stuff because I didn’t have time to shower — we had to go somewhere (I can’t even remember where now, but we had errands to run that day).\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t get a chance to take a shower until later that night.<\/p>\n
That whole experience pissed me off but it was just a minor inconvenience.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit like that happens from time to time.\u00c2\u00a0 It was no big deal really..\u00c2\u00a0 Except that I hate not being able to shower in the morning [BRIEF DIGRESSION:\u00c2\u00a0 Brian likes to shower at night.\u00c2\u00a0 I like to shower in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 On our days off, however, I make him shower with me.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not like I twist his arm or anything.\u00c2\u00a0 He actually loves it because I shampoo his hair and he gets a head-neck-shoulder rub out of it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a ritual of ours ever since we’ve been together, even before we actually started living together.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, so maybe this wasn’t such a short digression — sue me!].\u00c2\u00a0 At least, it didn’t cost us anything.<\/p>\n
So that’s my water heater story..\u00c2\u00a0 Now our furnace is out.\u00c2\u00a0 We hadn’t noticed it until recently (when we started to have lots of snow and extremely low temperatures).\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, we try to keep the thermostat at 65 to 68 degrees anyway to try and keep our gas bill down but the other day we notice that the temperature inside the house was 56, the thermostat was set to 68 and the heater wasn’t going.\u00c2\u00a0 So we check this and we check that — Brian even replaced the battery on our thermostat, thinking that could be the problem — to no avail.\u00c2\u00a0 We know it’s not the thermostat because when we set it to AC, it works just fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem, based on our uneducated guess, is somewhere inside the furnace.\u00c2\u00a0 This time it’s going to cost us.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we can’t figure out what’s wrong with it, we’re going to have to call a heating specialist and we have to pay them just to come to our house and check it out!\u00c2\u00a0 Even just to look at it and find out what’s wrong is going to cost us!\u00c2\u00a0 How crappy is that?<\/p>\n
We’re going on three nights in these arctic conditions but we’re making do.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re actually going to try to see if we can figure this out and fix it ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian’s dad is going to come over tomorrow to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, Brian just wants to replace the stupid freakin’ heater..\u00c2\u00a0 He thinks we can get it replaced for less than a grand (maybe in the 70 when our house was first built).\u00c2\u00a0 I heard it can cost almost $2000 — our tax refund (which we haven’t even filed yet, so we ain’t getting it back anytime soon) isn’t even that much!<\/p>\n
You want to know something really jacked?\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve been enduring somewhat cold temperatures inside the house (to most people 65 is pretty cold) because we’ve been trying to reduce our gas bill and that was fine but now that our furnace is out and we’re forced to endure it — not by choice but by necessity — the feeling has completely changed.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, before we could increase the temperature if we wanted to but we chose to keep the house cold.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that we don’t have a choice it feels ten times colder!\u00c2\u00a0 I know that a lot of it is psychological, though.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not freakin’ going to die or anything..\u00c2\u00a0 We have space heaters and blankets for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
What really sucked, though, is that our bet is still going on and I had to work out in 50 degree temperature.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the crappiest part!\u00c2\u00a0 Brian has such an unfair advantage!\u00c2\u00a0 He felt so bad that I had to work out in these conditions that he told me I didn’t have to but then my competitive side kicked in and said, “Of course he’s going to tell you that!\u00c2\u00a0 He wants to win!”\u00c2\u00a0 So anyway, I figured I can’t make excuses to not work out.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been doing that all this time.\u00c2\u00a0 It time to start fresh..\u00c2\u00a0 To turn a new leaf..\u00c2\u00a0 I really hope that I can keep this momentum going..<\/p>\n
Speaking of hope — the freaking furnace better be fixed soon!\u00c2\u00a0 And let’s pray it doesn’t set us back a fortune!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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