Monday, September 6, 2004

9/6/04---Thank God for air conditioning

First of all.....Everything is going okay, the family is good....Frances is currently heading north to see my brother in the panhandle.  Now that I've said that....I have never been so hot and miserable as I was this morning when I got up.  It wasn't just hot and muggy....it was HOT AND MUGGY and...STIFLING.  I mean, you sit down and you just start sweating.  It was disgusting.  Last night, with no electricity and with (needless to say) NO AIR CONDITIONING I slept on the couch in the living room.  I had opened every window in the house, and Kim slept on the floor in our bedroom in front of the sliding doors.  I had turned the couch around, so that I was facing the window, just praying that I would get a breeze.  So the lights go off, I'm laying there....and NOTHING.  And I can feel myself starting to sweat.   And the first thing I'm thinking is just how bad me & this damn couch are going to smell in the morning.  And as I lay there with my eyes closed....I thought...."Lord, just give me a breeze maybe ever 10 seconds or so---that's all I'm asking for here".  And no lie...this wonderful breeze came through the window and it felt great.  And then the wind was still again for about a minute.  And I started to sweat again.  I used up a lot of prayers on cool breezes.
Our front yard looks like a total mess.  Our wild orchid tree in the front yard started to go on Saturday afternoon and by the nightime we had an extremely large plant laying on its side by the road.  Guess who gets to call the insurance company tomorrow?
Oh yeah, and Notre Dame got their ass kicked by the friggin Mormons!  UGH!
Overall, not a great weekend....which isn't easy to do when you've basically had a 5 day weekend.
Did I mention that I missed the air conditioning?

Later,
Jeff

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