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Two days of a cold bedroom but the living room felt nice so I slept in there

Recently my electric furnace broke down and thankfully I had this portable space heater my dad got me many years ago for situations like this. The summer was pretty hot but one or two days the temperatures drops for some unknown reason and I needed to turn my thermostat on to heat my house. Well, that day didn’t go well and my electric furnace, or actually, it could be whatever broke down. It’s the summertime so I don’t think whatever happened to really affect me. I just know those two days I brought out my portable space heater from the garage and plugged it in for warmth. It felt nice but the negative thing is that my cat Elsa wouldn’t leave it alone. She would lay on it for warmth those two days and acted it like it was hers, and hers alone. I wanted to move it from one room to another but she had issues with that. She would growl, then lick her lips and slowly close her eyes to fall back to sleep. Elsa even swatted at me once, this is ridiculous. Two days of a cold bedroom but the living room felt nice so I slept in there. I didn’t want to have an HVAC tech come to my house as it’s July and there are still a few months until the cold weather comes but I did schedule one to come at the end of June. I figured that would be a good time and the weather should still be nice for another month or two. Elsa though, needs some manners!

ductless mini split

Doctor Connor is an amazing doctor who has a great personality.

He knows his stuff and he can figure out what is wrong with you and prescribe the correct amount of medication one would need within minutes. People love him and get upset if he is on vacation or sick. Some people will even reschedule their appointment to make sure they have him as a doctor. I feel that is a bit crazy because if you are sick, don’t you think you should see a doctor so it doesn’t get worse? The thing about the Doc is that he loves his central air conditioning. We, the nurses can’t stand it and yeah, it gets pretty cold in the building at times. The air quality isn’t the greatest at times but we suffer through it because we see all the happy faces that get to see him on their visits. I’m just glad he has a great personality and is very understanding. To be honest outside of the central air conditioning he is understanding but will draw the line if someone tries turning it off. Also, I don’t know if our doctor’s office would be open if we didn’t have him. He stands out that much for people and it’s important for me and the other nurses that we need him to have a job. I just know on days he isn’t here, the thermostat settings are definitely changed and we get a little break. Anytime Doctor Connor says he might take a day off, we push for him to take the day off.

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I love the fact that I finally was able to do something to benefit my health that was actually easy.

That has certainly not been the case over the past 5 or 6 years.

I have been battling some serious health problems that came at me one after another. Honestly, I thought that I might not ever get my health back. There were many, many months of laying on my back inside the central air conditioning of my bedroom trying to be calm and heal. Staying still and patient have never been strong suits for me. So I really had my work cut out for me with these health issues. But amazingly, I was able to come out the other side of that trouble to what feels like a new life. Seriously, all that illness also came with a lot of healing. Beyond healing from my illness, I was introduced to a life where making good health decisions happen daily. Deciding whether to sit down in the air conditioning or get out and take a healthy walk is a great example. Same with my diet. When I was so sick, I really learned a lot about healing my body with healthy, natural foods. And I wanted to keep that going instead of sitting my recliner, soaking up the air conditioning while I ate some sort of processed junk. The everyday details of living healthy are now part of my daily behavior. When I learned about the link between good indoor air quality and good health, I was prepared for doing whatever it took to make that happen. But this one was easy. All I had to do was replace the cheap air filter for the HVAC equipment with a HEPA filter.

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The plan really never was to stay as long as we did up north.

My wife and I met down south where I’m from and where she came to work.

We shared the same commercial HVAC of the same office building. But we didn’t work for the same company. We worked on different floors. Yet the first time we laid eyes on one another in the elevator, there was something magic there. I can’t describe it all that well but it was incredible. We both took our lunch outside of the air conditioning in a little park two blocks away. This place is like a little oasis right in the middle of downtown. And there is rarely anyone sharing that space. That’s how we met and started getting to know each other by having lunch outside the air conditioning and in the sunshine. It wasn’t but 18 months later before we were married. My wife really excelled at what she was doing inside that commercial HVAC. Me, on the other hand, I wasn’t so pleased with an office life and my job sort of ground me down. That’s why it was easy to say yes to following my wife to a new job way up north. Actually, we moved very near where she grew up. I immediately went to work from home freelancing and built up a business that didn’t require me to work in an office. But man, those Winters were brutal and the gas furnace never seemed to provide me with the heating I needed. So when my wife informed me that she had the option to return to the south, I had my bags packed and ready. I was so ready for the land of sunshine and heat pumps again.

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