I feel like I am constantly scrambling to keep up with life as an adult.
- There’s always something that’s being neglected, no matter how hard I try to keep on top of all my responsibilities.
As if it isn’t enough to work two full time jobs, start up a small business, do all the cleaning for a household, and care for a geriatric dog… then there’s home maintenance. The house constantly needs attention and I’m very bad at remembering to take care of it. Right now my largest focus is on the home central heating and cooling system. See, last year I learned a terrible lesson when our whole heating system failed one day. When I called out the HVAC repairman, he told me that the trouble could have been prevented with routine maintenance performed on the furnace. Great, there’s another thing I’m not accomplishing. Ever since that day I’ve been extremely paranoid about taking care of the air conditioner, furnace, and ductwork. At least once per week I go personally check on the heating and cooling equipment, although I have no idea what I’m doing. I have several maintenance contracts with various heating and cooling specialists around town so that I have their work double and triple checked by other ventilation experts. I also have a whole stockpile of air filters for both the air conditioning and heating systems, which I change out very frequently to maximize energy efficiency. At this point, I even have a repeat reminder on my phone to change the air filtration every 2 weeks. I should have no excuse to neglect my HVAC system ever again, in fact, the notification is set indefinitely.