Thursday and Friday were a bit of a challenge with this cold and the allergies, but I think the Claritin is finally starting to build up in my system so my allergy symptoms aren’t so severe. The cold just had to take care of itself, and mostly left me feeling achy those two days. I was able to work though and luckily I managed not to fall too far behind. One night this week (Wed? Thurs?) I was feeling a bit hot and miserable and Michael took me down the street to the new Rita’s for some waterice. He’s so good to me, and it hasn’t been a good week for him either – some pretty serious sinus headaches are really messing with his ability to function.
My head still wasn’t quite right when we went out yesterday evening for some dinner and to stop by Lowe’s for a new air conditioner. I was doing very absent-minded things all evening, the worst of which was ordering cookies for dessert with the intention of taking most of them home – and then leaving them on the table at the restaurant. Arrrgggg cookies! :(
The air conditioner was one that would finally be big enough to cool the upstairs living room/Michael’s office. This was an investment we have been meaning to make, it gets VERY hot up there. We needed one that was at least 15000BTU, so I did a tiny bit of research and decided upon one. Usually I do more research but I just haven’t had the time. My research was pretty much: HomeDepot site sucks, I’m not shopping there, Sears doesn’t have anything big enough in a Window unit, hey Lowes has what we want, Frigidaire is a good company, and the price is competitive. So we went with the Frigidaire 15,100 BTU Room Air Conditioner (Color: White) ENERGY STAR. It was huge and heavy. It barely fit in the Civic (we should have brought the truck!) and bringing it upstairs was a challenge. Even more of a challenge was installing it in the window. Should be pretty straight forward, right? Nah, it came with a bunch of screws and horrible instructions. It must have taken us 2 hours to figure it out and finally get it installed. We’re not dumb people! It was tough! I think the worst part is the instructions didn’t clearly tell you that the bulk of the A/C was removable from the chassis – and this is required to do some of the installation. Bleh, air conditioners. But by 10 PM last night we had it running and it cooled down the room very quickly! Michael and I slept upstairs on the new futon couches last night.
And now that I’m feeling a bit more alive than previously, I need to shower and get myself out of the house and run some errands I’ve put off while I was sick.