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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Day 51 of Triple digits

So today HAS to be better than yesterday. Nothing horrible happened during the day, it wasn't that busy at work, I had to redo some jeans that I'd been doing Tuesday because I delegated one of the other girls to do it and well she didn't do it right (or really more to my standards). We got out on time.
Getting home is when stuff got worse...I get home ope my apartment do and it is SWELTERING, I swear it felt a little hotter than it was outside...which is in the low 90's at this point. I figure I left something on, though I swear I didn't use the stove or oven that morning , and my toaster turns itself off after not being used, I check the water heater and the fridge just in case, then go and let poor Harley out and she's gotten sick ALL over her crate (I'll spare you the gross details), but that's when I notice my AC is on, and I think it's strange that it would be this hot in my apartment with the AC on, yes I do keep my AC fairly high around 80-ish usually, but it's WAY hotter than 80 in my apartment. So I put my hand to the vent in my bedroom and it's blowing out HOT air...great right. So I super fill Harley's water bowl, she's drinking like a mad woman which means she probably got sick from the heat (poor puppy =( I'm watching her today to make sure she's ok, she's acting normal so far).
So I call the emergency hotline for my complex, because the AC being out in these temperatures (even at night) is horrible, and leave a message. I get a call back about 15/20 minutes later and the head maintenance guy says that since my apartment is on the top floor my AC unit is on the roof, which means that they can't come out that night because they aren't allowed, I'm sure by insurance, to be up on the roof that late at night...which means that I have to spend the night with no AC and just my fans (thank the lord I have 2 stand fans and a small desk fan!). I did tell the dude though that he, or whomever, needed to be out here first thing in the morning because I was so worried about Harley, with her having long hair and being in the apartment however long with the AC acting up I was so afraid that she might get even sicker than she already had, she was already panting really hard and went through SO much water, so they said they'd be here at 8am because that's when they get into the office.
It was a DAMN long night! I moved my shorter stand fan into my room to where Harley's crate was (I moved it out onto the deck so that I can clean it later today)...needless to say it was a very long night. I tried to get Harley to sleep on the foot of the bed in front of the fan to help her keep cool, I had a damp towel around my neck. I woke up every couple of hours and at about 6/6:30 I decided it was just no use in trying to sleep, it's just too damn hot. So I channel surf, *force* Harley to lay in front of the fan on her back with a cool damp towel on her tummy to try and get her to stop panting. The guy gets here a little after 8 and makes me turn on the AC. =\ Apparently the motor or something went out and that's why it was only blowing hot air. So now I have a working AC and I'm trying to catch up on the sleep I didn't get last night.


On a much happier, my dorkyness gets to be peaked, I got to early register for PotterMore.com which I'm kinda super excited about! Hopefully I'll get to try the beta sooner rather than later!


My Birthday went well, went out with Chris and Heather for the traditional dinner at Trudy's for a stuffed avocado and a couple Mexican martinis. Then we met up with Patrick downtown and just bar hopped that Friday, I completely forgot how dead 6th can be when school isn't in sessions yet, then we finished the night at Gourdoughs where I got the Son of A Peach, SO good, I highly recommend going there, their doughnuts and doughnut holes are crazy good, the Flying Pig and Blue Balls are a must try! I went down to San Antonio Saturday morning and was there until Sunday night. Went to dinner at Ponchitos with family and my grandma, got their AMAZING empenadas, and since we know most everyone there they had the entire restaurant sing to me, and my mom got me one of my FAVORITE cake, white with whipped topping and strawberries on top! Then I spent the night with my mom at a hotel that her soccer club footed the bill for because they were having a soccer meeting that weekend. Sunday morning got up had the breakfast buffet, then we went to a cooking class at William Sonoma (which wasn't really good, the regular teacher wasn't there and the guy they got to "teach" had no idea how to multitask, he knew what he was talking about, he had to be a culinary student, but he couldn't explain what he was doing and actually cook at the same time), then we went home chilled with the puppies and just chill, then the 4 of us went to Sea Island for some DAMN good seafood, then I packed all my crap and drove back up to Austin for work Monday morning. My parents promised to buy me the new iPhone when it comes out in September as my birthday gift because my mom refused to give me all money for my birthday because she knew I would spend it on bills and not something fun and for myself, which she's right, I would spend it paying bills, rent, paying off my credit card, so I don't really need anything right now except a new phone, but with the new iPhone coming out in a matter of months there's no point in getting the iPhone4...and I can survive with my crap iPhone 3G until the new one comes out...even if it drops calls and randomly either turns off or the screen goes blank...but hey Apple is smart like that and wants you to keep upgrading every time a new product comes out.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Freedom

The semester is officially over! So happy summer break is here! I can finally start reading the very long list of books that I've been wanting to read/finish reading, but couldn't because school feels the need to make me only have time for boring school books!
Here's what I have so far, if you have any suggestions please feel free to tell me:

The Hunger Game series
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
Heat Wave and Naked Heat (yes the ones from the Castle series, what can I say I'm obsessed)
Reread the Harry Potter series (have about 200 pages left on Deathly Hallows)
Rocket Men
Too Far From Home
Water For Elephants

Every time I stop by half price books, which lately has been on a weekly basis, I find more books that I want to read. Darn them and their good prices!

I have a couple crochet projects that I want to work on too. I found a doily book that I want to try too, not to make doilies that are going to ruin my eyesight, but there's one pattern I really like that I think would be cool for the back of a shirt. They seem to be all the rage right now, and I figure instead of paying $15-$30 for one I can buy a cheap cotton tee at work and then cut out the back and sew in what I've crocheted...we'll see how that goes. Sounds simple, but what I've found with crochet lately even if it sound simple and straight forward, it's not. I have a baby blanket to finish for a girl at work that is about to have her baby any day now, and I'm being completely serious, she's due the 28th.

I'll be going to ACL with the lovely Miss Heather this year! Bought my first ticket today, I'm excited! I LOVE Austin and now I can say that I'll be participating in a major Austin tradition. Ha Ha

I've noticed lately that I've been getting more and more obsessed with Harry Potter the closer the last movie gets. I'm so excited, and yet sad...with the last movie getting here it means that there will be no more Harry Potter movies. =( But for this one I want to go all out, midnight 3d showing and everything! Anyone be willing to go with me? =D

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Summertime Blues

So I haven't been getting as many hours as I'd like, so it looks like I might be looking into getting a 2nd job, goodbye complete and total social life over the summer *sigh* but hey you gotta do what you gotta do to make rent right? =\
I had most of this week off, Monday thru Thursday =o, so I took the time to go down to SA to see my parents and wish my dad a Happy Father's/Birthday...and do some much needed laundry ;) It was nice, I sat around most everyday and hung out with the puppers and watched the world cup which was really nice. Got some good crocheting done on my friends granny square blanket, I got 2.75 squares done which is pretty good considering each square is 2ft x 2ft ugh! My mom made a comment about it not being completely square, it's my mom she has to criticize, I need to bust out a couple more, it took me about a day or so to make which means I can get the other 4.25 out really fast...and then comes the evil task of putting it together...i need to find the diagram of the way she wants the colors to be arranged...eww. I need to work on my mom's blanket too, I'm about 5(maybe 6...gotta get it out and look :p) hearts in, didn't take it to SA just to make sure that my mom didn't see it. But I think it's coming along nicely, I fully understand the reasons why my mom detest making blankets in the summer, even sitting in an ac-ed breakroom that thing gets damn hot sitting on your lap, but I want it to be done by her birthday in October and when school starts in August I won't have as much time on my hands to work on it.
Sad USA lost to Ghana today, it was a good game, went into OT =( Tomorrow morning Germany plays England, Paul the octopus says that Germany will win, i'll def be getting up to watch it, gotta root for the one team that I like that's still in it!

TTFN homies
XOXO
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