blogging it real

Our electricity bill for November was $92. $92!!!! This for the privilege of running the fridge and freezer, and turning on the lights after 8.30 pm. Well fuck me. A month during which our heaters, electric blankets and dehumidifiers sat silently in their boxes, wherein they had been placed in anticipation of summer. We might as well pull the fuckers out again, and plug them in 24/7, because (a) it's still fucking cold and (b) it would only cost us another $30/month. (We were paying roughly $120/mo in winter).

And while I'm on the topic, what's with the fucking unrelenting wind in Auckland? Six fucking weekends in a row. And the weekdays haven't exactly been still either.

At this point I'm about ready to choose a weekend in Suva over another one in Auckland. It's exactly a year since we were sunning ourselves in the blistering heat of the Sunshine Coast. Unable to sleep at night due to unrelenting heat in fact. Now it's sweatpants, slippers and the winter douvet.