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Today the POWER bill arrived. (Can you hear the spooky music in the background… maybe something like the Twilight Zone theme.)

This was the largest power bill our household has EVER had.

Hubs was screeching “Why?”, “Oh, would someone just tell me WHY?”. I’m not sure I know why, but I have a theory.

We had three full weeks off school (instead of the normal two weeks in December) and extremely cold temperatures with lots of snow. In addition to our heat pump having to work harder to maintain a daily temperature, we also had kids in and out all day long and more warm baths to warm up frigid hands and feet. So, combine colder than normal weather, more people home all day and constant going in and out to play in the snow… and what do you get? More energy seepage/waste and therefore a higher utility bill.

While I can accept that our bill will naturally come back down to a normal level for the month of January, I’ve also implemented some changes we are going to work on. Many of these items are reminders because over time we start getting a small lax.

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In yet another bizarre twist in the Casey Anthony saga, a psychic comes forward claiming to be the person the P.I. was talking to as he searched the woods.

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With his personal and financial worlds crumbling around him, investment adviser Marcus Schrenker opted for a bailout. In a feat reminiscent of a James Bond movie, it appears the 38-year-ancient businessman and amateur daredevil pilot tried to fake his death in a plane crash, parachuting to the ground and speeding away on a motorcycle he had stashed in the pine barrens of central Alabama. Schrenker — who officials say was running not only from the law but from divorce, a state investigation of his businesses and investors who accuse him of stealing potentially millions in savings they entrusted to him — was arrested Tuesday night in Florida. It appears he slit one of his wrists, officials say.

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