We've Moved!

After a month-long hiatus from blogging, I'm back. Things got kind of exciting near the end of May when we finally found a GREAT place to move to. We're renting a 3-bedroom house with a backyard and garage (if you can't read between the lines, that means we now have an office and storage space!!!), and wouldn't you know it, my favorite flower is growing right by the front door. Squeak is enjoying the extra space to explore, and also having her own room and not a corner of our "storage room" with boxes on one side, food storage on the other, and bikes on the ceiling. D's enjoying doing all the work unpacking (he really has done all the work), and I'm enjoying having air conditioning. We found out a week before moving out of our apartment that the air conditioner had been broken the whole time we lived there (since the end of last August). I thought I was just being a whiner about the heat, but when D's classes ended and he was home during the day, he said it really was hot and that we should have maintenance check it out. Broken compressor, and when they brought in a portable A/C unit to get us through that last week, the temp registered at 90 degrees in our bedroom. No wonder I was using all the ice faster than our ice maker could make it! We had the thermostat at 80 and I just assumed that 80 was supposed to feel that hot. We have it at 80 in our new place, and I almost feel cold sometimes! Of course, going outside is a different story--today's high was 110 and the heat is so stifling I can hardly breathe (and to think I used to go into the sauna by choice!), so I've even resorted to running on the treadmill--D has a gym membership nearby that only costs us about $40,000 per year, so we might as well take advantage of it!