Part IA, Part UP

DH got a really decent bonus check, but all of it is going to pay down credit cards.

Had a great time sitting outside sipping margaritas at a cafe last night, but the humidity just about killed me. I seriously thought I was going to puke by the end of the night. As soon as I got in the car with the A/C blasting I was fine.

Had a great time sitting outside sipping margaritas at a cafe last night, but the humidity just about killed me. I seriously thought I was going to puke by the end of the night. As soon as I got in the car with the A/C blasting I was fine.

The humidity is AWFUL.  I could barely sleep last night (we don't have A/C at home).  It's just painful.  I'm almost glad it's raining right now. 

My horrible excuse for a professor and class are my IA, the UP is my fellow students managed to talk her out of making us come to the last two days of class!  Only 5 days left!

The humidity is AWFUL.  I could barely sleep last night (we don't have A/C at home).  It's just painful.  I'm almost glad it's raining right now. 

Can you get a window unit? There is no way I could sleep without A/C anymore.

Yeah, we probably could.  It's not terribly bad most of the time in our place.  We have a window unit in our living room that we haven't yet turned on!

I found the perfect pair of shoes, on sale and everything.  But the website is not working

The IA is answering the door and having the person on the other side ask me if my parents are home (I've been known to get carded in countries where the drinking age is 16).   The UP is that I can get out of whatever they are going to ask me to buy by replying "No" and closing the door in their face. 

Waking up at 5:30 AM on a SATURDAY.  However, it's because we want to avoid the traffic to Cape Cod for our mini vacation. 

Some glorious flowers delivered to the door this morning with a really long note that actually brought some tears to my eyes.  The IA, well the whole damn reason for the flowers in the first place. 

Aww Phat, how sweet.  I was hoping you'd work things out.

Aww Phat, how sweet.  I was hoping you'd work things out.

Aww thanks.  We're far from working things out just yet (if we want to work things out at all), but flowers (still waiting for my chocolate and expensive champagne  ) and sweet notes help 

I sold my car, which is a HUGE yay!  Now a very minor inconvenience.... how to get where I need to go the next two weeks. 

I sold my car, which is a HUGE yay!  Now a very minor inconvenience.... how to get where I need to go the next two weeks. 

But only 2 weeks and then you're moving - that seems to have come around so fast - big yay!

IA:  Two weeks ago, my daughter and I smelled something burning just as we were going to leave the house.  We traced it to our 17-year-old dryer.  The trousers she was drying smelled like a campfire.  I unplugged the dryer, made sure everything was fine, then left the house.

UP:  No damage to the house or contents.  The next day, I bought the cheapest dryer that had the settings I needed, and had it delivered the following day.  The man who fixed the washer a month earlier said that I'd see my electric bill lower when I replaced the old dryer with a new one.  I'm looking forward to the reduction, and very pleased with the new dryer's performance!

I got the old dryer for free, and owned it for at least 10 years, so I got more than my money's worth out of it.  I did have to have an electrician replace the outlet so I could use the new dryer (the old one was a compact dryer and plugged into a standard electrical outlet).  The electricians who wired my house put an odd plug in it that didn't fit any dryer in the US, and was fit for a 3-prong plug.  When I got the outlet replaced, I had it upgraded to 4-prong---the current code for most places in the US.