Air Conditions

Now I know how Tipper Gore must feel.

So while we purchased not one, but TWO portable A/C’s, it turns out we’re not actually supposed to USE them. Okay, okay – I may be exaggerating a LITTLE…but usage is definitely frowned upon. At first I thought it was because we didn’t want to run up the electric bill. But then I realized that we were trying to REDUCE, reuse, recycle. We are supposed to use these things “for when we are sleeping”. Ummmm, call me nuts, but shouldn’t we use them at the hottest point of the day…not the coolest? =) [smiley face]

And let me just tell you, Rita can be outside, behind the house, in the garden and STILL pick up the nano-second I sneak in and turn the air on [of course, it’s a dead giveaway when Molly sprints from the other end of the steam house for a drop of precious coolness for her fur-lined self].

I keep trying to work out a cap-and-trade system with Rita. Like…I will recycle one more yogurt container for 20 minutes of A/C. And I’ll even wash it out like you’re supposed to. But really, I think Rita and I ARE a cap-and-trade system. All her conservation and meanwhile I haven’t turned a light off since 1997.

Talk about an inconvenient truth.