Chillin'

An Excessive Heat Warning (an upgrade from a heat advisory) will take effect in North Texas tomorrow beginning at 7 AM and continuing through Thursday. Extremely hot temperatures, the hottest so far this year, are likely with high temperatures approaching 110 degrees.

The Fort Worth Weather Service is saying this upcoming week could be the hottest week we've seen in D/FW in TEN YEARS!

I'm ready for it:

We put a window unit in Surly Teenagers bedroom about 3 weeks ago. Her room has always been crazy hot in the summer and crazy cold in the winter. She has been greatly enjoying the coolness and is slightly less surly.

We had the theory that she could leave her bedroom door open at night and help cool the hall and possibly get our main a/c unit to shut off. It has been so crazy hot, I swear, it has run non-stop for the last month at least. I was worried about it getting over worked and deciding to call it quits. Something we CANNOT afford right now.

So the window unit for Surly Teenager. And it did actually help. I heard the a/c shut off in the middle of the night.

But now the heat has just kept going and getting worse. The house never cools down. Different rooms are varying degrees of almost cool, a little warm, warm, and down right stuffy.

At night, instead of sleeping all cuddly close with Hubby, it has turned into elbowing each other along with "scoot over-you're touching me". And lots of tossing and turning from being uncomfortable. And just not sleeping good at all.

So this morning I declared it an EMERGENCY and we made an un-budgeted purchase and got a second window unit for our bedroom.

I'm going to bed early. Good night.

Momma's got a new toy...

I tried it out on the kitchen floor and I give it an A+ for not having to get down on my knees to scrub the floor.

And of course Hubby already had his new toy (which is why he probably voluntarily bought me the Floor Mate)...

It's for towing cars, so I didn't really complain much about him buying it. I HATE having to tow with a tow strap. HATE, HATE and more HATE. This eliminates the need for tow straps.

And because nothing is ever good enough the way it comes (at least that is apparently what Hubby thinks) he added a spare tire, hand winch and utility box.

So, what happens when a couple of days later, Surly Teenager calls after we are in bed asleep and says the car won't start?

Would you guess that Hubby jumps up, yells "I'll get my car dolly!" and goes to rescue her?

Well if you do, you would be WRONG. He wouldn't even wake up. I had to go get her. And since we all know how much I know about cars, the car stayed there over night.

You would have thought he would have been dying to use his new toy. It was just a dead battery, so a car dolly would actually have been a little overkill.

But still.

(And did you notice that my new toy cost about 1/10th the cost of HIS new toy. Hmph. Someone owes me a couple of more new toys.)

I guess he meant well...

Surly Teenager was a damsel in distress. Her car wouldn't start.

A knight in shining armor with a pair of jumper cables tried to rescue her. Unfortunately, he didn't know what the heck he was doing and he hooked them up backwards - positive to negative - and they overheated and caused this damage:

Beware ladies: just because he owns jumper cables doesn't mean he knows how to use them. Do yourself a favor and learn the way it's done.