What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
It’s summer. Not technically though. Summer will officially begin in the northern hemisphere on June 20th this year. Thank you Google. However, I live in the south. South east. It’s pretty much already summer. I literally got sunburn last week from the 30 minutes I stood out in the parking lot dismissing kids from the summer program I supervise at work. I got the sunburn on a little sliver of one shoulder where my shirt was pulled down a little bit and my hair was up, leaving it exposed. Yeah, it’s the summer.
Given that, I am a wimp in the summer heat. I have to have air conditioning. My husband told me about a time when the very house we live in (his childhood home) had no ac for one whole summer. I would have died. Literally died. Of course I’m exaggerating, but I would have been miserable.
Just look at this forecast for next weekend!
Granted, low 90s aren’t so bad. It’s when we throw in upper 90s with a heat index that puts it over the 100 mark. The heat index, of course, is because of the humidity. How sticky it feels on top of being just plain hot. In other words, it feels like satan’s armpit outside. And what’s the only relief from that in the absence of a backyard pool? Air conditioning. We do have one. But we are trying to keep it from running too much because it’s old and we don’t want to burn it out and have that huge expense of replacing it.
I’ve been getting emails at work lately saying they are working on the ac in different buildings on campus. Mine has not been listed so far. I hope it stays that way. My office is stuffy enough without them messing with the air in an attempt to improve it.
I’m a simple girl. It doesn’t take much to make me happy. In the summer, it takes even less. Cold air on the inside. That’s it. Just let me be cold inside while the world outside is broiling. It’s the simple things.
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