Baby, It's HOT Inside

You may or may not recall our Heater Man incident a couple of winters ago... it was quite the drama. It was worth me going back to those "Baby, It's Cold Inside" posts to re-read for some laughs. Well, we just seem to have great luck with furnaces and AC units... and sewage. My parents came in town a few weekends ago for my niece Cerra's baptism, and they stayed at our house. I love having people stay here because we rarely have visitors. Well, just our luck, the second and final night my parents were going to stay here, our AC went out. Luckily, we have James' parents very close, and they were very kind to offer their 2 bedrooms upstairs for the night.
Well... 2 1/2 weeks later, we got our new AC unit! There's not much story to it other than James' phone calls to American Home Shield. All they had to say about how long it was taking was, "...due to the national heat wave..." blah blah. I like James' response of, "So, when it's the hottest time of the year, I have to wait longer for my AC?" What ever happened to people working longer hours, etc. when it's their busiest time of year? James does it for his job. Anyway, we were very lucky that it wasn't much of an issue (other than a crack that formed in one of our walls from the extreme heat and my melted chocolate chips... very sad) because we had a nice, cool place to stay for those weeks. I wonder what other people have to do who don't have a free place to stay?

If there's one thing we've learned since we've been both renters and home owners, it's to have renter's insurance, home insurance, and a home warranty. 2 1/2 weeks later, we were out several hundred less than if we didn't have that warranty. It's time to renew our warranty, and I know we will (possibly with a different company though) because winter is coming, and we don't want another Heater Man issue!