Beat the heat to avoid last years mess with Tina

Our apartment faces the sun and is on the top floor with lots and lots of windows.  In the summer this place gets unlivable hot.  Last year Tina and all of us tried to by a tent thing but this never panned out as it is also really really windy!  A storm came in and ruined our nice little home we made outside.

I took this back as it was not going to work but this still left us with a really big useless balcony.

Last year this happened was really funny.  This year the landlord has agreed to put up a nice retractable umbrella like he has to help us fight the heat.

(you can view the whole storm post in our archive HERE)


We have purchased a little really cheap like 10 dollar umbrella to at least share our toes but suprisingly the landlord has agreed to install a really nice sunsetter canvas thingie.  Woot they are really expensive and he wants us to be careful with it so has asked us to pay 100 dollars so we will take care of it.  He is even going to install it!


We have the metal blinds which helps but you end up living in the darkness the whole summer fighting off the heat.  We have decided to buy an Air Conditioner this year also.  What is also cool is the landlord said he would drill the bigass holes through the wall for us.

Well my dad and I dicked around at the mall ate some subway brought amy home some subway and picked up an Air Conditioner that I purchased last week.  With some mishaps looking for the car and him getting all frustrated and funny we learned we are not good at anything and need a womens help but we did after about an hour figure out how to get this big mamba jamba to the car and get it tied in.

Damn E4 error message doh!

Yep there is the error message and on top of that I ripped the box up good opening it.  Amy has called the company who said I need to bring it in since it is "portable" we do not have a car and bugging my dad for another thing could prove annoying so I am going to hop in tomorrow on my lunch and say hey come get it.  I got the box together as good as possible but without the tie straps im screwed!.  See the video for more.

I am still grateful for everything we have gotten we moved here sleeping on a used oldass dirty single bed sofa thing half on the floor.  We had not much at all when we got here we fought and climbed found our way and have just been moving on up. Oooh the hard times we have had!  We are not rich yet but working on it just enjoying some of our tax money :)