Day 6

Yesterday our landlord finally brought a maintenence guy out to fix the AC. He was there for close to something like 5 hours and in the end, told us the system was working and we were good to go. Super excited, we closed up the windows and headed out to the store, hoping to come back to a nice and cool house.

He didnt fix it. We came home to a nice 85 degrees on the thermostat and called our nice irritated landlords who said we'd have to wait another day. Yippie.

So today the guy comes back out for another few hours, only this time he left with the system blowing nice cold air... FINALLY! Hopefully it lasts, but at least not the temperature is slowly going down!

Could this finally be the end?

Day 5

Day 5 and still no AC.

The nights are the worst...for some reason our bedroom feels like the inside of a furnace even when the rest of the house is halfway decent. Even combined with the fact that we have 4 fans going and the windows open in that one room alone. Other than that and sweating with any sort of physical activity (I'm talking, walking into another room makes you sweat) it isn't so bad...if you like being confined to sitting directly in front of a fan all day.

They told us it could be next weekend at the earliest before it gets fixed...even though the repair guy who came out on Sunday told us it could be fixed that day. Let's just say, we have cheap landlords who don't want to pay. Even though if it were their house, it would have been fixed back on Friday.

I figured having a couple of days off work to relax, catch up on some sleep, etc would be nice...but no. It's not. It's been far from relaxing...

Ugh.

Even Annabelle is miserable

Craigslist is Amazing

I know I talk a lot about how much I love Craigslist, but I really just can't get over it.

I mean seriously, Craigslist is just pretty much the most amazing thing ever invented.

Today I'm scanning the listings and come across someone giving away free camera film. Sweet, a couple packs of film would be awesome to play around with, I thought. Even better, they were medium format! Holga time, anyone? So the girl tells me she has them, says she's setting it outside on her porch, and I pack Adam up and we head down.

I expect one or two packs of film...and what do I see??

Yeah, we're talking 3 decent size BOXES...FULL of film. Brand spankin' new. Good film, all kinds. We're talking Ektachrome...stuff not even in existance anymore. And she had it refrigerated. I think I just had Christmas in July.

And it was free.

We set up my old mini-fridge from my dorm days and it filled it to the brim. Yes, there was that much. I am so excited. It's chilling nicely, just waiting for the day when we break out the Holga gear.

So once again I will shout my praises for Craigslist. Love it!!

So hot

This weekend has not started out too well.

Yesterday I wake up from my nap earlier than normal because I was ridiculously hot...turns out the AC decided to die. So instead of sitting in Rosenblatt right now watching the last 4th of July celebration before they tear it down, I am laying on my bed under the ceiling fan in shorts and a tank top sweating to death while the AC man takes his sweet time coming to pay a visit. Our landlord couldn't get anyone last night, so we spent the night tossing and turning from the heat, although thankfully we had a nice breeze towards the middle of the night and were able to open the windows. Today we hear she found someone around 10:30 this morning...so I waited.

And waited.

And I'm STILL waiting. It is now 6:37pm.

Needless to say I'm a bit annoyed. And hot.

The 4th is my favorite holiday all year, so I am hoping that things pick up. The cats have been sprawled all over the floor all day and Annabelle has claimed the spot right under the fan. It's currently mid-80s INSIDE.

Not good. I'd like to leave the bed, but it is so hot...

Twilight

Yes everyone out there, my HUSBAND wanted to be first in line at the midnight showing of Twilight. He's a bigger fan than I am of the movies, and I heard about it quite a bit in the days leading up to its release.

Now, I wouldn't let us go to the midnight showing, but I did give in and say we could go opening day, after he got home from work. So we headed out, got in line behind a bunch of teenage girls, and Adam was giddy and happy. Ok, so he hid his actual giddiness, but he was grinning ear to ear the entire time. ;)

The movie was good, better than the 2nd. And the trailer for Harry Potter in the beginning was exciting, though it sucks that doesn't come out until November.

I was crazy tired all day today from being up late to see it, but I suppose 2 hours of Taylor Lautner's shirtlessness was worth it ;)

Royals

Adam called me earlier in the week last week and had asked if I wanted to go to the Royals Game that next weekend because someone at his work was giving him tickets. I said sure, we haven't been out to a game yet and it sounded like a fun Sunday. He had no idea who they were playing, but we didn't much care.

Come to find out this weekend was the biggest series of the year...it's interleague play vs. the Cardinals! So we got to see some good old Missouri Rivalry going on. Luckily it wasn't as hot as it has been here the past few days, and even though our seats were really high up, there was a nice breeze and we were right behind home plate.

It was crazy to me how many Cardinal fans were in the audience. In fact, there were so many people in red that it was hard to tell that the Royals were actually the HOME team! I felt kind of bad for the Royals, ha. Especially when we walked out to grab a drink and the ROYALS gift shop was selling CARDINAL appareal and gifts. I mean, really?! When you go to a Yankee game when they are playing Boston I HIGHLY doubt that they are selling some Sox gear!

But we did have fun. I went in with the intention of rooting for the Cardinals, since they are in the Reds division and all (and have a couple of formal Reds players!) but after seeing the crowd, I felt bad for the Royals and decided to root for the home team. I mean, when they sang the Take Me Out to the Ballgame song, it wasn't "Root, root root for the ROYALS" it was a complete mash...truth be told I heard more "Cardinals" instead of "Royals".

Luckily the Royals ended up winning 10-3! Yay!

See all of the red?!?

Yay For Coupons!

So I found this app on my Droid that is basically a coupon app...it finds all of these really great coupon codes and updates the app daily with the new deals. The other day they had a deal for a free meal at iHop- score! So Adam and I both signed up and each got our free meal and headed up the other day. Yum!

They are in the process of promoting some new Pixar movie now, so they have all of these new meals and promo items with funny names, and they had this strawberry lemonade I decided to try and it was amazing...and it had sprinkles!!! You gotta admit, this is a pretty sweet looking glass of lemonade.