This year has been full of surprises.
- First my father-in-law passed away due to COVID complications.
That was surprising, because we all thought that he was making a recovery in the beginning. But after a few days in ICU, we received the terrible news through a phone call from my wife’s mother. Sadly, things didn’t stop there. It was right after that when I heard news that my grandfather was going septic in the hospital in our home state up north, and I wasn’t even able to call him in time before we lost him. That’s hard to cope with when you’re really close to your grandfather in the first place. Unfortunately, I don’t think my year of chaos and unexpected changes is going to let up anytime soon. I’ve been pushed into mandatory overtime hours at work and I’m starting to wonder if my significant other is cheating on me. I start to wonder sometimes if things could ever get worse from where they are at right now. Then I go and forget about changing the filters in my air purifiers here at home! I have three separate air purifiers positioned at various locations around my house. The filters inside the air purifiers are HEPA filters with a charcoal layer on the outside. These are expensive allergen filters! While they admittedly last six months, they’re still $35 a piece! That’s crazy compared to the cost of basic air conditioner filters. Granted, if you pay $17 for an a/c filter and change it every three months, it works out to being the same price in the long run.