15 August 2008
Flashback Friday - Life Without Air Conditioning
Our air conditioner was not working on Wednesday & Thursday and it reminded us of a few years ago, in our first LA apartment, when we didn't have central air/heat. We had a 10+ year old window box unit in our dining room. It cooled down the dining and living room quite well but the bedrooms and bathroom were off through a hallway and we were on the second floor so for about 2 months during the summer, the bedrooms were disgustingly hot. After a couple of weeks of trying to cool them down using all the fans we could get our hands on, we decided it was a futile effort and just started sleeping on the living room floor on the mattress from our fold-out couch. The couch itself was miserable to sleep on so we just put the mattress on the floor and would lean it up against the wall during the day. It wasn't too bad but we were REALLY excited when we found out that our new apartment had central air that we wouldn't even have to pay for. So for the last few days, I've been thinking about the good ol' days back in our cute Chandler Blvd apartment when we were both freshly out of college and all of our furniture was handed down or bought at DI. We were brand new to the whole LA experience and miserable with our jobs but loved our new "grown-up" life. Good times.
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TOTALLY! I always fear my AC going out during the summer. And when we lived in NYC with our two window units (that didn't even really fit in our windows so we taped garbage bags around the edges) we were SO HOT! And the humidity was awful. There are many reasons to be grateful for the apartment manager job I guess.
You wanna know the really weird thing? When I picture you in L.A. I still imagine you in that apartment. I have to keep reminding myself that you guys have lived in your current residence like twice as long as you were in the Chandler place. Bizarre, huh?
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