Sometimes all you can do is laugh.

Drew and I seem to be having one of those weeks. Not that everything is going wrong, but a significant amount of things have. Enough to make us go, “Really?”

It started out Sunday night when we were having a relaxing evening at home. I had tried to start a blog post and for whatever reason, wasn’t feeling it. I thought maybe I’m just worn out from the past week and decided not to push it. I sat around for the next hour, playing around on the computer and doing nothing productive. Then I noticed that it was hot. Really hot. Since I tend to get cold easily, I know that when I’m hot, it must be hot. I asked Drew if he was hot, and he had thought it was just his office feeling stuffy. We checked the thermostat and discovered it was hovering around 80. Air was blowing, but not very cold. Drew had just removed some vines from the unit outside earlier that afternoon, and he wondered if he had done something to it. That didn’t seem likely, so he checked the filter. It was one of those special only change every three month filters but apparently it lied. It looked pretty dirty so he changed it. That didn’t help either.

He climbed up into the attic and pulled apart the air conditioner and discovered the problem. There was a thin layer of ice covering the unit. With my hair dryer to the rescue, he sat there for about thirty minutes while it thawed out. When he finished, he proudly discovered colder air emerging from the vents. Yay! Problem solved.

Until 5 am when the air froze up again.

Now I don’t want to sound spoiled, but those who live in Tallahassee know that air conditioning is more of a necessity than a luxury. On Drew’s latest comedy blog, he noticed firewood for sale at Walmart, which is pretty dumb in August. If you scroll down the post, he posted a five day forecast for our area. It should make you sweat just reading it. I lived without A/C in my car for a couple years, and driving too far without it will completely and totally drain you. Needless to say, the thought of living without A/C in the house was enough to make us break into hives.

Drew realized there was more to the problem than a little blow drying, so he decided to call a professional. It must be a good season for him, cause he can’t be here until Wednesday. Drew called on Monday. No A/C for two days. Yikes.

We’ve been able to run it a little, and squeeze some cold air out. But it definitely wasn’t enough. Drew decided to purchase a window A/C unit, so we could at least sleep. At first I thought this would be a frivolous purchase, and then I had an image of sweating through the night and realized it was the most brilliant idea ever. So he bought and installed our window unit, and we felt like we were in a cheap motel last night. But oh, the cold air was wonderful. We camped out in the bedroom last night, watching the Redbox movie that we hadn’t gotten to the night before. It was blissful.

We finished the movie, and were settling into bed when Drew turned the TV off. As soon as he did, the window unit shut off. And the clock radio. And our bedside lamps. Drew thought he had tripped a breaker, until we realized the ENTIRE house was dark. He walked outside to discover that several houses around us, maybe five or six, had no power. Not even the whole street, or the neighborhood. Just our little section of the neighborhood. Perfect.

I began to laugh, as the realization of the fact that we would be sleeping with no A/C, even after all that effort, began to sink in. Drew failed to see the humor.

My well prepared hubby rummaged through the garage and found our battery powered fan that we keep in our hurricane supplies. He rigged it up to the ceiling fan with rope (he turned the ceiling fan switch off first, so we wouldn’t have the re-creation of velcro handed Kermit the Frog flying off the ceiling fan that my sister and I found so amusing as youngsters). Pretty soon we had a small burst of air flying at our feet. It wasn’t much, but any little bit helps.

Just as Drew predicted, we were just starting to drift off when the power came back on and the sound of every appliance in the house starting up again woke us up. Oh well. At least we had air blowing again. I actually slept pretty well.

Hopefully the rest of the week can only go up from here.