Please don't worry about occasional higher readings unless they are very high. There is more than likely no meaning to it unless it happens more often. I am thinking about taking a mindfulness-based stress reduction class. There are classes locally (I know of one at Duke, there are likely similar at UNC or others locally) but found this free one online https://palousemindfulness.com/MBSR/week0.html

I used to be cold all the time! And I keep the house fairly chilly with a/c, but it's a lot warmer upstairs, so sleep temperature is more difficult to control, and I like being under layers of blankets. Very happy to have the new windows.

Weather has been not much of anything; wind is still breezy but almost no rain. Just gloom, yeah. Glad to be this far west. The radar over Wake county looked like they got more of a steady rain all day.