I think I have become addicted to hot chocolate and hot chai tea. This afternoon, I sat in front of the window air conditioning unit, while drinking a cup of hot chocolate. I was sweating and fanning myself, but I couldn’t put the cup down. I had to drink every drop or. I didn’t know […]
Read MoreI harrumphed and stomped my way to the bedroom. I didn’t think my mother was funny last week when she told me I should be an actress when I grow up. She had never seen a more realistic faint than the one I feigned today. Unfortunately, she saw me peep out through my lashes, and […]
Read MoreI had never heard my dad laugh as hard as he did when I told him I would die of heatstroke without air conditioning. He told me we had plenty of cool weather ahead of us, and he would not turn the air conditioning on yet. It was eighty outside, and it was only mid-April. […]
Read MoreI know it is only mid-April, and it is only springtime, but the last couple of days have felt like air conditioning weather. I don’t care about the reasons for it being so warm, I just know that it is hot, and I asked my husband to help me put the air conditioning units in […]
Read MoreNow that it was almost thirty degrees cooler than earlier this week, and back to normal, people would forget they had to flip back to heating It was almost eighty yesterday, but in the middle of the night, I could hear the furnace turn on. I didn’t think it was supposed to get cold last […]
Read MoreEvery time I walk into my bathroom, I cringe. I hate the humidity in the bathroom. The ventilation system needs to be upgraded, but I haven’t had time to think about it. The idea of purchasing a new ventilation system is there when I get out of the shower, but once I’m out of the […]
Read MoreWhen I was invited to a wedding and given the name and address of the venue, I had no idea what I was going to see. I wasn’t from the area and was going to the wedding because I had become good friends with the bride while in college. Over the years, we kept in […]
Read MoreMy girlfriend and I had always talked about going to England one day. For our honeymoon, we decided to go to England and stay in one of those old castles. I thought it was going to be fun, but I had to admit that I was scared out of my shoes. When we got there, […]
Read MoreI was helping my partner remodel a house. The owners hired us to remove all the old wallpaper and see what was beneath before we started redoing the walls. I never thought we would find something interesting, other than ant and bug infested wallboard. The house was over 200 years old, and it hadn’t been […]
Read MoreOne of my deepest passions happened when I was on a field trip in the eighth grade. The entire class went into the local museum, where they housed some amazing treasures. I couldn’t believe I could walk into the hallway and view such beautiful art. I was told some paintings dated back into the 1800s […]
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