Finally have A/C

When we had the addition built for my mom last year, the contractor installed a Mitsubishi dual air conditioning/heating system that goes up on the wall.

I should have known when I saw the contractor with the box open trying to read instructions that we were in trouble.  Mom passed away before we needed to use it. Fast forward to last winter. It was feeling cool in the room while I was working and I tried to turn the heat on.  Nothing happened but a light blinked on it.  So I moved the space heater from my old office to my new one and used that when needed.  Fast forward to the hot summer we've had.  One day I tried to turn the air conditioning on. All it did was blow air, and it was never getting cold. Despite having  the windows open and fan on, it just wasn't good enough.

I finally decided today to call someone that dealt with this system as our regular whole house central air repair person did not deal with these, which I thought was nuts!

Anyway sure enough had a nice repair man out today who said that the system was never completely finished being set up and there was also no Freon in it. Figures.  Of course this was one more thing that my hub was able to complain about our horrible contractor. I finally got him to stop complaining about him by the end of last year.  Of course I do wish the contractor would have told me to contact a specialist to get the unit working properly, instead of telling us it was all set.  But anyway after a year and 3 months the unit is finally set up and working.

Doing my part

Well I am proud of myself for doing my part for helping the earth. With all the severe weather occurrences, one would have to live under a rock to not know that we are destroying the earth.  Hopefully it is not too late.

Anyway I got myself some stainless steel straws to use instead of plastic ones. It took me a little getting used to not trying to chew the straw. LOL But I have the hang of it now. I use them for my morning smoothies.

First post in August

Wow. I didn't realize it has been so long since I blogged. My life is boring I guess. LOL. Well we did recently get Netflix and have been sort of addicted to it, but that was only since last week.

I do have to say that we let our Molly go on Aug 1st. :-(  We miss her terribly but we still have our other 3 left to love.

I did go visit the youngest last weekend to see their new place and a new puppy. We went shopping in a cute small town with shops not far from where they live and had a very nice time!

I know my last post mentioned getting my teeth cleaned. Since then I also had a skin doctor appointment in which she found two moles she wanted to remove and send out.  I asked her to try to take as much as possible so that all the margins would be clean so that I wouldn't have to go back to get a core biopsy (and stitches and more recovery time) .  Sure enough they were both precancerous but they did get all of them so I didn't have to go back.  I am very happy to have avoided that.

When I got to my skin doctor appointment I saw that my gynocologist's office was right down the hall as well so I went ahead and made that appointment too and have had my exam with them and such. I keep getting calls about setting up the mammogram but I want to make that appointment myself and should have told my gyno that too.  I just don't care to be pushed into appointments. Had my fill of doctor/dental appointments for the rest of the summer anyway. : -)

School started back up here a few days ago already.  It is also clear that there is less and less daylight. Oh well seasons come and go.