electric is down

from friday morning 8/17 til friday morning 8/24, our electric meter turned 17kwh. that's less than 2.5kwh per day :D

average for the last 25 days is more like 5kwh per day, but that's still pretty good. i know that us having our water heater and cooking powered by other means puts us ahead of the game in the electricity category, but still.

reasons why it was down this week: it was cool. we didn't use the fans at all this week. also, with jake back in ohio, we're not having his ceiling fan and cd player on all night anymore. i'm sure that helps. i have been needing a light in the bedroom when i get up lately (i am up at 5:30) such that i don't look like i got dressed in the dark ;)

i've been eating better this week than last week. we did go for pizza one day, but i didn't even want it (we needed to do laundry, and going for pizza was the quickest solution to dinner so we could get down to the laundromat).

we also used the clothes dryer for the first time in FIVE MONTHS this week. wow. we didn't know how to deal with the rain we've had in more than a theoretical way. i still want to hang a line from cup hooks that criscrosses our bedroom ceiling... but we may just get another drying rack instead. i'm considering doing underwear and socks in a bucket by hand. it's still at the consideration point.

i haven't gotten sick yet, but my chiropractor asked me if i had a cold. when she was adjusting my neck, she noticed that my lymph nodes are swollen. i can feel it, too. it's just out of reach, this illness. i hope to keep it that way. airborne to the rescue! *note to self: get echinacea tea at the grocery store this weekend. and dogfood.*