When I first moved down here, I moved right around Thanksgiving.
Actually, I left up north during one of the first real snow storms of the year.
I just made it out of the neighborhood in time in fact. It was so fitting to be leaving the heater and a snow storm in my rearview mirror. My whole purpose for moving here was to get out of that sort of Winter. And moving here in Fall is the best way to introduce yourself to the best weather ever. And it kept going into Winter. It was glorious and I was over the moon with my decision to leave all the heating costs behind. And I was also getting to work from some awesome zone controlled HVAC in the new office. It was like I had made the best decision of my life. But a friend at work was genuinely so instrumental when it came to turning me into what lay ahead when it came to heat and humidity. For the first time ever, I had to get an a/c plan. This was all new to me as the a/c was sort of an afterthought up north. Sure, there were times when the a/c genuinely came in handy. But it was nothing like the a/c demand down here. This friend in my new office that I do my best to hold off on flipping the control device over to cooling and leaving it. The more I could acclimate to the rising hot and cold temperatures, the less cooling demand I’d need all summer. I’m so glad I listened to him.