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December 17, 2005
my self of the past is an annoying housemate
you know how people sharing a space will have temperature wars? one person is cold, and they turn up the heat... the other person gets too warm, or feels strongly that to save energy, we must keep the thermostat at 65, and so turns it down...?
in march, i got a new heating and cooling system, complete with a programmable thermostat. i recall spending a good deal of time programming it (gleefully, i would imagine); going into this winter, there was already an elaborate program in place for heat.
apparently living in a cold house while the new system was being installed skewed my idea of what constitutes "warm". the lisa of december 2005 is having a temperature war with the lisa of march 2005.
i wake up in the morning, and raise the temperature to 67. halfway through my morning ablutions, i raise it again to 67, the "day" program having kicked in and brought the temp all the way down to fricking 62 degrees. (lisa of the past had a different work schedule from lisa of the present.) i come home from work and raise the temperature. and raise it again a few more times during the evening as new phases of the program kick in. weekends are worse, of course.
what was i thinking? i swear, i am wearing layers. socks, sweaters, sitting under a wool blanket while watching tv. still, brrr.
obviously, i need to re-do the programs; it's a tedious task, which is why i keep putting it off.
all of this makes it occur to me that my self of the past has done some other annoying things that my self of the present is left to deal with. she stored items for goodwill in the basement, knowing full well that when it started raining again, they'd get wet. guess what? it's raining again. the drought is officially over; my basement floor is wet again.
my self of the past probably could have kept better care of the back yard; it might not be such a mess if she had.
but i dunno, she did some good stuff, too. she cleared all the crap out from under the bed, so now i can clean under there. she bought some nice furniture, and did a lot of painting and stuff.
in the end, i suppose it may not be mentally healthy to think of my self of the past as a separate person. it's just that i really do not understand how she could stand the thermostat set so low.
Posted by lisa at December 17, 2005 10:38 AM
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My past self was so much more organized than my current self. I always knew where everything was, and I did everything as it needed to be done. My current self has three boxes of childhood toys (big boxes) that need to be washed or wiped off and then somehow displayed or put away. I have no desire to actually deal with these things.
Posted by: pinky on December 19, 2005 12:32 PM
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