Oil Heater

I woke up this morning, to Daniel saying, "Sarah, we are out of oil! What should I do?" I was alarmed, but the warm bed pulled me back to sleep for another hour. When I woke up Daniel said he called all the oil companies in our area and they were all closed on Sundays. Maybe they will be opened tomorrow? I don't know it is a holiday. How did this happen? I wasn't going to let this happen. I watched the gauge on the oil tank very carefully...at first, and the oil really didn't seem to be going anywhere too fast. When I was researching oil when we first moved in, I was told we would need two or more tanks to get through the winter. I didn't believe it. Especially, after the first month with the oil gauge not seemingly moving much at all. The last time I checked it, it was 1/2 full. When was that??? I can't remember, maybe before the blizzard of 2008.

I had just been thinking this weekend, how it is strange that I can withstand the cold temperature we keep the house at. I would always complain when I was at my parents house...they keep it so cold. Why would anyone suffer through such cold in their own home!! Even when I had been paying my own heating bill for years, I still thought, "I am never going to live like that. I am going to have a warm house." Well, after spending $600 dollars in the beginning of November to fill up our oil tank (that bought us about 1/2 a tank, there was already about a 1/4 in there when we bought it), I was okay with no heat at night and five blankets on the bed. And I was okay with not using the heat during the day while I worked, but instead having a little space heater in my office. Maybe someone broke into the basement and siphoned the oil out of the tank. I just don't understand how it disappeared all the sudden.

An old house, no insulation, and an old oil furnace......oh boy. I told Daniel insulation was a priority!!! Needless to say, it is cold in the house. Daniel said, "It's okay, you just have to keep moving." Well, I better go start moving a little more to warm up.