Twelve Dollar Wonder
You know it is bad when you can't sleep from the heat. You try to help yourself go to sleep by putting moistuerizer on (I believe it makes your face feel better and more like sleeping), but then you sweat so much the moisterizer gets in your eyes and you have to get up again and wash it out of your now red and very unrested eyes.
When it gets to this place, one's red eyes and sad face are a call to action. So, Kathy and I acted. We went to Lowe's last night and bought a bunch of stuff to make our little, sweltering room more tolerable. We bought blinds and tools to put them up with (a 59 piece home repair kit that we are quite proud of) and set to work. After three hours and a call to the Saviors of The Blind Installment (thank you Tim and Brian and the drill that came with you) half of the blinds were up and the room no cooler. That is until we turned on the Twelve Dollar Wonder.
Our room is the only one in the house without a ceiling fan. We looked for a large, room sized fan to buy, but Lowe's was all out of anything that looked remotely helpful. The only fan left was a "desk" fan; a little thing you put on top of a table. We took our chances with the little white fan and bought it anyway. Kathy put it together and we plugged it into the sole remaining outlet. Then our lives change. The Twelve Dollar Wonder circulates cool air around our room. Where it is getting this cool air, we do not know, but there it is and it is great.
Moral of today: The Price of a Good Night's Sleep is Approxiamtely Twelve Dollars and Blinds are a Pain in the Ass.
When it gets to this place, one's red eyes and sad face are a call to action. So, Kathy and I acted. We went to Lowe's last night and bought a bunch of stuff to make our little, sweltering room more tolerable. We bought blinds and tools to put them up with (a 59 piece home repair kit that we are quite proud of) and set to work. After three hours and a call to the Saviors of The Blind Installment (thank you Tim and Brian and the drill that came with you) half of the blinds were up and the room no cooler. That is until we turned on the Twelve Dollar Wonder.
Our room is the only one in the house without a ceiling fan. We looked for a large, room sized fan to buy, but Lowe's was all out of anything that looked remotely helpful. The only fan left was a "desk" fan; a little thing you put on top of a table. We took our chances with the little white fan and bought it anyway. Kathy put it together and we plugged it into the sole remaining outlet. Then our lives change. The Twelve Dollar Wonder circulates cool air around our room. Where it is getting this cool air, we do not know, but there it is and it is great.
Moral of today: The Price of a Good Night's Sleep is Approxiamtely Twelve Dollars and Blinds are a Pain in the Ass.
posted by Cate at 11:11 AM
1 Comments:
These days, I have a fan directed at me when I sleep. Sometimes (due to the fan) I wake up because I'm cold. It's a nice change.
Thank God for Christmas--it made fans possible too, did you hear?
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