2/10 in scarlet_dragon

I feel like things are finally getting back to some sort of regular routine. After weeks of snow days and such.
I haven’t really focused on my long “to do lists” as I basically spent the entire snow days just loafing around or feeling generally like crap.
We have a virtual meeting with our financial guy. We usually do them once a year it’s been over a year now but nothing really changes and we don’t have much to report. So it’s just one of those things to check off on the ever long list. We really like him and it’s good to know he’s around if we do have anything come up.
I’m also working on getting through about 3 weeks of my son’s dirty clothes. I asked him over and over at least 7-8 different times in those 3 weeks to please take his dirty clothes to the laundry room and it never happened. Finally today this morning 20 mins before he needs to be at school he brought them down. Now it’s a process of probably at least 6-8 loads of laundry I need to do for one person. Sigh.
I dropped off a package at UPS this morning. Someone purchased a lego from my Mercari shop. It’s been sitting on my desk since I moved in almost 5 years ago and it was of the Eiffel Tower. a smaller one. I think my sister gifted it to me quite a few years ago and I liked it but I’m trying to weed through all the toys and such that I keep collecting.
I do think I did good today when I almost went to tjmaxx and I’m like you don’t need anything in there and I just went back home instead. I haven’t been inside there in 8 months which is a lot for me. So I am trying to be better about the random spending.
Books are still the issue of course for me and I’ve yet to get through one in many many months. Just burnt out. I think I need to get serious with myself and start selling off many of the books. I will never be able to read them all even if the kick to start reading a lot comes back. So now they sit piled in every room of the house in the way of a lot of things. I don’t want to get rid of them but I also don’t want them to be an issue for someone else to take care of later. I know I’m only 40 but these thoughts seem to pop up a lot more now of course than they ever did in my 20s.
Anyways it felt good to pass along something else that’s just been sitting gathering dust on my desk. I have a lot of things like that, that I need to deal with. And now that thing maybe can calm down a little I can focus on that.
Looking at our electric bill the average cost in the summer months from maybe may-October cost about 160.00. Then Nov was same price… December was 247.00 January was 428.89 and then Feb bill now 518.58. It’s so insane. I hate having a heat pump.Whatever asshole thought it was a good idea to install that into a home in an area that gets chilly in the winter I hate. So running heat is what bumps the bill up…but we don’t keep it crazy hot in here it’s mainly because there’s only one electric company here in the area and they run a monopoly. Many many others have complained about the cost going sky-high. I hate it.