I came home today to an absolutely sweltering apartment and two cats who probably would have murdered me if only the humidity hadn't sucked the will to live right out of them! We've had three days of some horribly humid summer weather. Great for swimming! Not so great for living in an apartment with no central AC. I was putting off putting in the window unit because 1. this is Wisconsin and the likelihood of the weather staying like this is slim to none and 2. I have to pay for electric here and, frankly, it's expensive to run and 3. the damn thing weighs a ton and I have a problem lifting it! But I reached my saturation point...literally...and, finally, had to do it. I suppose I could have called someone to come over and do it for me but that would have meant I would have had to sit here and be sociable and the heat sucked that out of me earlier today. When I am hot, I am cranky and when I am cranky, I don't want to make nice.
So I did what any red blooded Polish girl would do. I hauled ass and put the behemoth in the window myself. I swore a blue streak, broke down once, yelled a few F bombs now and then but I did it. It's in, it's cooling down, the cats are starting to like me again and I am almost feeling human! Yay for me!
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LOL! that reminds me of a water pump I installed on my '74 opel manta (first car). kept waiting around for the guys to do it(said they would) got pissed, was getting dark and the last time i drove the thing over to their house sparks were flying out from under it, so i just grabbed their tools and proceeded to take it off and put the new one (that I had in my back seat for a week waiting)on. they were laughing at me the entire time and that just made me more determined, plus i'm pretty sure there was tequila involved. i'm pretty hard-headed but hard-headed doesn't anywhere near describe what i was with half a fifth of tequila in me. anyway i did it and it ran like a charm from then on.
LOL...isn't it funny how we "think" we need the help and when the frustration reaches the boiling point, we just do it ourselves. And do it well...maybe even better than if we had waited for "them" to do it. LOL!! Of course, tequila always helps.
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