Giant Fork

We went to visit my mom this weekend to pick up Annabelle and we FINALLY got to see the fork! Haha. Everyone always talked about this darn thing, but yet in as many times as I had been down there, I had never seen it! So we finally got to drive to it. My life is now complete that I have seen this giant piece of steel goodness.

Adam was so ashamed of the fork. He wouldn't even look up for a picture. Pooper.

We also had "game night" that turned into the World Longest Monopoly Game. Seriously, there are some competitive people in our household! And I found out that once Adam loses, he conspires with other people in order to bring down the people who once turned on him...but once they start winning, he conspires with someone else. So, basically, don't trust Adam. And I don't even care, but Kelsey and I have the best strategy for Monopoly, even though everyone else (*cough*Adam*cough*) hated it.

This Is What 216 Rolls of Film Looks Like...

You heard me.  216 rolls.  Did I mention just how amazing Craigslist is? 

Total cost?  $30.  Yeah, that's right.

Relief.

After 21 days in the heat, 3 different hotels, and numerous calls to our agitated landlord, we were finally given back our air on Wednesday.  It was definitely a welcome relief, seeing as we had been living in and out of a hotel for a week and the night before, a storm knocked out power to the hotel we were in, causing there to be no air (or lights) again for us...so much for paying to get a good nights' sleep.

After waiting most of the day Wed for the house to cool down, the thermostat FINALLY climbed down from the 97 or so it had been sitting at for days.

This weekend we are looking forward to picking up Annabelle, the house has been very quiet without her.  And we can finally celebrate her birthday!  That puppy IS getting a cake!

Love

My husband loves me. He brought home chocolate lava cakes. Yes, I had to take a bite even before the pictures was taken.

Happy Birthday Annabelle!! Oh yeah, and it's still hot....

Day number...16 now? I think that is how long it has been since we have had ac.  Landlord finally agreed to prorate the rent (although, only sine this past Friday and only through today, so 3 days...) so we used that money to book ourselves a cheap hotel for the weekend, since we have been under excessive heat warnings all weekend.  We got a really great deal on priceline for only $23 a night and ended up with a Holiday Inn which is actually pretty nice.  Mom drove halfway and picked up the cats and Annabelle since they cant stay in the hotel but I think were getting heat stroke.  I am really bummed though, because today is Annabelle's birthday and we had planned this big deal with a puppy cake and a steak and all.  Adam promises we can celebrate it next weekend but I am still bummed.  I know she is much happier though, mom said she got special food and hasnt been panting at all since getting there.

Hopefully they get the air fixed tomorrow, though my hopes are pretty low.  I would really like to get back to my normal routine and be able to work again and not sit in my house without breaking a sweat.  We shall see I guess...

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