Month: August 2006

it’s A(C)-okay at home…

So, thanks for everyone’s nice comments about the AC fiasco. Things are fixed. I hung out at the hot house all day yesterday, while they cut holes in our floor, and totally rebuilt the duct work under our house. The result, which honestly, I find interesting that it is so surprising to me, is that every room is now a cool 69 degrees. Before, we had hot rooms, rooms that were never cooled, because of the shitty duct work; but no more. Now, every room is comfortable! It’s amazing what $4800 can get you! I am just thankful that we have our house, and are able to get and enjoy AC, I know that there are tons of people out there right now sweating out this summer heat blaze. I don’t know why I torture myself by living in the south; I have always hated the heat. Perhaps someday, I will live in Antarctica… then I would never be hot (nor would I need AC!)! I don’t really want to live there, but it is beautiful, and it does make a good arguement for living there for the heat-haters!

Hope everyone has a cool day… I am just glad that the shit is fixed. It’s honestly weird that I am not freaking out about the money; we all know I am an anxious person. But, we will get it paid off… somehow. And luckily, no, we did not have to refinance anything; they offer payment plans. How kind of them, eh?

forty-eight hundred dollars later…

I just wanted to see what it would look like typed out in words… That is how much it is going to cost to have our AC fixed. Turns out, the condenser whosiwhatsit isn’t up to efficiency code, and combined with a pisspoor duct system, our little AC unit has been running its little heart out, and it finally had heart failure while we were at the beach. The only solution is a new heart, as well as some new duct work, and a condenser whosiwhatsit. While it does anger me that we have to drop nearly $5000 on an unexpected expense, I will be glad that the AC problem we have had since day one will be solved. No more unsightly AC units scattered about the house! But such a price… the inconvenience was almost worth it!

What a price those two precious letters shall cost us. Le sigh. I have come to the realization that no matter what, I will be in debt forever. Even after I am dead, I think that they will just forward my Discover bills to the graveyard. Now, I will sit in my hot house in anticipation of hearing that brand new AC unit kick up for the first time. I had better be freezing my balls off by tonight…