I love the sunshine pouring in through all the windows. And I love the breezes and to hear the sound of the birds, so I hate to close up the house and turn on the AC unless it's absolutely unbearable in here.

But last night was one of those nights. It was close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in my bedroom. So, at that point where the electrons in my brain were bouncing around like crazy, indicating that in just a matter of moments, my brain was actually going to reach that rolling boil... I decided to close up the house and turn on the AC. And, naturally, it wasn't working! Yay!

Crimony, was it hot in here last night. Even the cats abandoned me and slept down in the family room where it is a lot cooler. Of course, I could have gone down there, too, and slept but I was in that weird non-brain-functioning state of exhaustion combined with unbearable heat.  I laid there thinking that it was going to be too much effort to go downstairs and make up the couch to be sort of like a bed, and then I wouldn't be able to move around much because the couch is kind of narrow. And then the cats would probably want to sleep practically on top of me and so the cat hair would stick to all this sweat I'm covered in and then suffocate me, etc., etc.

I'm guessing that in all the time it took me to lie there and think these thoughts over & over for close to two hours, I could have just as easily gone downstairs, thrown a sheet on the couch and simply collapsed in sleep.

Well, the repair guy is coming this morning. I have one of those home warranty things where it would only cost me a song to get a whole new AC unit (and I have the song all picked out!!). I told the repair people on the phone last night that this was the 3rd summer in a row someone has had to come out and put more of that freon stuff in the AC , or whatever it is they use now. And they finally revealed to me the home warranty secret!! And I will reveal it to you!!

I have to call TWICE in one season with a complaint on the AC before they will actually repair the leak or replace the unit. If I only call once, all they will be authorized to do is put more freon in the thing.

Well, yippi ki yi yay!! I think I see a new central air conditioning unit hovering on the horizon of my future!! Maybe I'll wait a whole 24 hours and then go to a pay phone, where they can't trace the call, and disguise my voice:

ME [sounding a little desperate, like some squealer in an old detective movie from the 1930s]: "Yeah, listen, I wanna report an AC unit that isn't functioning properly... yeah, that's right. I said, it's not functioning properly. You better send somebody out there quick before someone gets hurt, see?"

Ah, here's some more good news!! Saturday morning "the workmen" are coming to measure my bathroom floor in anticipation of getting the bathroom floor re-tiled!! Yay!! I am so excited about this! Well, I'm not excited about having the toilet ripped out and the shelving units that are covered with junk that I have to put somewhere so that the units can be taken off the wall, etc. but I am really excited about getting new tiles! Somebody who owned this house before I did had the bathroom floor tiles removed and they put down those fake adhesive squares that only look like tiles but are actually some sort of vinyl or something equally impossible to keep clean.

Well, then I figured, as long as they have to do all that ripping out of stuff in order to put down the new tiles, why not go ahead and have the entire bathroom remodeled?? The guy at the ripping-apart-your-bathroom desk at the Home Depot said, "Sure! Let's go for it!!" The look we decided upon is shown below!!

Okay. I gotta scoot, gang. This laptop is getting so hot that I can hardly stand being this close to it, you know?? I think I'm going to go lie down on a couch somewhere and sweat until the repairman gets here. Have a great Tuesday, gang, wherever you are!!! And thanks for visiting!

[My new bathroom. It's all about simplicity, folks!]