The audit season was here and I had very little time to spare on anything else other than work.As the manager of the department,my company counted on me to ensure that every auditor submitted their reports on time and that we were not behind schedule.
Such times are stressful for me as I hardly get a few minutes to myself.
Fortunately, I have always had people in my house so I immerse myself fully into work without worrying about anything else. But this year was different. My kids had gone on a long vacation to my brother’s house and they would not be back until three months later. My husband was away on a mission and he would be back in a year’s time. This meant that I was all alone and things could get overwhelming. Unfortunately for me, I forgot to handle anything else other than work. It took a friend of mine visiting to realize that the air quality in my house was nothing pleasant. She coughed all through her stay and asked me to call the HVAC professional for a check. This is when it hit me that I had missed the regular HVAC maintenance schedule. The HVAC company had called saying they found no one when the HVAC technician visited. I had promised to call them back and I had forgotten. I rushed to check the AC filters and they were disgustingly clogged. Even though I changed the filters, I dreaded the energy bill I would get that month since it was clear that my air conditioning unit had strained. I immediately called the HVAC business to come in for the routine maintenance. I took a day off the next day to ensure this was done. They cleaned and repaired a few things that would be worse had I waited longer.