Life QotD: 2008 Highlights

Dec 30, 2008 at 11:34 PM
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Looking back on 2008, what were the highlights of your year?

-1st wedding anniversary
-spending time with my mom
-playing with a fox, brushing a wolf, playing with reindeer, holding baby boar, feeding camels, arguing with tigers, conversing with goats (zoo intern stuff)
-seeing Niagara Falls
-seeing Moab
-hanging out with my brother
-getting some really good art done (or in progress)
-hanging out with friends
-seeing friends I haven't seen in years
-2 ren faires in one fall
-having the lowest power bill ever (woohoo!)
-wonderful surprise gifts from people
-watching Obama get elected (dude, I saw history being made!)
-scoring a section of table for FC2009 (and business license!)
-a nice quiet Christmas

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This is a great list of highlights :) How did that power bill happen? :P

We signed up for this PG&E assistance program. We get a discount and they came out to do a power audit to see how we could use less power. This program also gave us a new refrigerator, added insulation in the attic, weather stripped the doors, added power saver lights, and fixed the heater ducts. So with all the repairs and the discount our power bills have been soooooo much tinier than they used to be. We've had winter bills over $400 before...it's about 1/4 - 1/3 of that now. It's awesome!

And thanks! It's been a pretty good year!

Good God! $400?! I'm glad that most of that could be fixed by the suggestions they gave you - you shouldn't have a bill that high no matter where you live.

Yup!! Crazy huh? Mostly it was the repairs, insulation, and weather stripping along with the discount that lowered the cost. The suggestions were like "keep the thermostat low" (we'd keep the thing off as much as we could) and "turn off lights when you leave the room" (that was definitely not what was jacking it up). I think the worst thing that was costing us so much was the ducting wasn't flush with the registers so we were leaking all the warm air under the house rather than inside it (I had a repairman look under the house at one point because I thought the ducting might be broken but he'd said it was fine...well the ducting itself was solid, there were just huge gaps where it attached to the registers). It's amazing....now the house actually gets warm when we turn the heater on!

Life QotD: 2008 Highlights

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