My heating bill has been kinda high lately. $146 for November!!

Although global warming means ultimate destruction of our planet as we know it today, I'm thankful for a mild winter so that I don't have to use so much heat. But it's still been surprisingly high, probably due to the rising cost of fossil fuels and the propensity for my old house to lose tons and tons of heat.

I've done a few things to try to stop all the escaping warm air: I've covered most of my windows with draft-reducing plastic, and I've lined my doors with insulating tape at all the places where light can shine through. I already have area rugs down on the hardwood floors and I'm going to get curtains, which I think will help a bit.

Oh yeah, and I'm also wearing tons more sweaters and keeping the heat as low as I can stand it (around 62-64 on most days, lower at night).

However, being a renter, there's not much else I can do. I can't go insulating the attic or wrapping the water pipes, which I'm sure are exposed. I wish the most that my landlords would change the windows but know that won't happen for a million years.

So, hopefully with the combination of no snow and these winterizing things I've done, December's heating bill won't be so bad.