Coolness!

My mother rescued me from the children yesterday. We were all nearly at the point of using claws (and in Care’s case, teeth) to disembowel each other. The heat the last few days has been overwhelming and much as I loved the use of a friend’s ancient air conditioner, it was more an exercise in futility than a provider of cool air.

Even after he installed a new breaker specifically for the machine, it was shutting down and throwing that one too. It’s very own breaker, with nothing else on it! Digression time….

The plan for yesterday had been to load into my mother’s car, head into the city, enjoy the air conditioned vehicle and hit up Ducky’s after her appointment. Then while she was on her way over here, the youngest brother (NERD!) called her to tell her the appointment had been cancelled, so…there was no need to go to the city. No Ducky’s. *whimper* So, she takes me out for coffee because I’ve been fighting with the girls all morning (all twenty minutes of it, since we’d slept in)…then suggests she takes the girls away for the day.

YAY!

Dressed in their bathing suits and shorts, armed with towels and flip-flops, the girls left the house and left me to printing resumes and checking the job banks (and editing…lots of editing!). In peace. In quiet. In the heat.

They showed up home last night, around 8-ish or so. The other brother (not-so-dumb) carried in a large box, and proceeded to tear the packing from around the old ir conditioner. Inside the big box (which said air conditioner, but my mother is mean when it comes to re-packing things…a trait I share, actually!) was actually a brand new air conditioner! A small one, but this is a small house and so long as the kitchen and living room are cool, I think it’s good.

I left it running all last night. Although it is 32*C right now, in the house it’s only about 22. This is a good thing, it’s NORMAL in here again. So, like my recently found doppelganger (actually, she found me, but I’d been to her blog before at some point..I think maybe last winter or something…) I’ll be doing housework today.

In the coolness…

Thanks Mom!