Nothing's perfect!

Today, I feel much better than previous days of harrowing excessive coughing and the pain that accompanies with cough and colds. First thought I have a small kitten inside my chest the way I breathe. You know that symptom of having asthma. My daughter and son had that bout with colds, they had medication and drink a lot of fluids. We consumed a lot of tissue and paper towel.

My husband has recuperated from the same ailment and thank goodness there's no snow anymore. I hope the last snow was days ago and no more. I hate snow already!

Husband has requested a hot palabok pancit with the shrimp sauce which I gladly cooked within an hour after having all the ingredients ready. We had palabok for lunch and what's next is the meal for dinner.

I know wouldn't it be better to get out and just dine in at the restaurant or fastfood? Just like those group of people who are more than happy dining out away from their home.

Could it be that the smoke coming out from the stove to the closed vent (without point of exhaust out of the place where it was installed) is the one that's causing us sick? The smoke/steam goes up to the vent and it spreads through the wired vent with foamy surface that stops the smoke. That's it? It doesn't work! Wont work that way. A smoke vent from above the stove/oven should have a way out from the vent out of the house just like a normal chimney. Weird! The vent's noisy and sucks the smoke up from the stove when someone's cooking then the smoke comes out from the opening in that same vent with exhaust fan and then the smoke spreads entirely out from another opening on that vent away out through the ceiling and wall. The smell of the food spreads all over the house especially above the room where my son sleeps. Who invented this vent? What the hell he is thinking? Then what the hell and who the hell install a vent that sucks the smoke from the stove/oven then inside that vent and then pass the smoke out in another opening and spread the smoke from the vent inside the house? No logic in that machine.

So think that the small openings or draught from the doors were actually on the purpose that air can pass through it. Because smoke from cooking and the fumes it create when trapped inside the house (without any openings) can lead to hazardous gas. The oxygen gets thinner and the vapor occurs and next thing is radon or bad gas sets in. Or the best to eliminate such gaseous substance is to cook but open the windows at the kitchen. However this is only good for summer time. At winter time there's that tendency when your hydro bill will be higher than usual if you keep windows and doors open even if for just few ten to 20 minutes.

Now I know why the PO Mail sent us a message that states:

Then another piece of message with warning ad about the dangers of RADON and how to be tested with radon. There's no basement in this house so nothing to worry about that. But based from what I read in the EB many years ago radon doesn't comes from contaminated soil alone, it can also comes from water. Radon can emits from old appliances.  Radon is a radioactive gas. Gas! GAS can pass through any kind of openings, holes, crevices. Gas is like air. It's just it is the worse kind of evil air. Carbon monoxide is worse I think. No smell, odorless and deadly! Scary!!


Now you wonder why some families have problems with hydro bills. Why some bills are higher than usual. Draughts on doors and windows. Or open doors and open windows at the time when they cook their meals at winter time. Which way we have to go on how we can be economically wise and thrifty when being thrifty can only lead to sickness or ailments hard to cure.