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A little love for our NZ littermates

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  • Started 2 years ago by gatakitty
  • Latest reply from MadcatwomanintheUK
  1. With love from Texas: here's what you're missing while you're freezing your assets!

    --- Subject: Dear Diary

    Just moved to Texas ! Now this is a state that knows how to live!!

    Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place!
    It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

    June 14th:

    Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an
    air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car.

    What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm
    turning into a sun worshipper.

    June 30th:

    Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots
    of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing
    the lawn for me.

    Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

    July 10th:

    The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do
    people get used to this kind of heat?

    At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the
    heat is taking longer than I expected.

    July 15th:

    Fell asleep by the community pool. (Got 3rd degree burns
    over 60% of my body). Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do.

    I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a
    climate like this.

    July 20th:

    I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left
    this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita
    had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then
    popped like a water balloon.

    The car now smells like Kibbles and **its.

    I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

    Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

    July 25th:

    The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!!

    And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the
    fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell
    me he needed to order parts.

    July 30th:

    Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now,
    $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one.
    Why did I ever come here?

    Aug. 4th:

    It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today.
    It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate
    this stupid state.

    Aug. 8th:

    If another wise ass cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm
    going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work,
    the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I
    smell like baked cat!!

    Aug. 9th:

    Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when
    sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass was on fire.

    My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all
    the hair on the back of my legs and ass . . . Now my car smells
    like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

    Aug 10th:

    The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot
    and sunny.

    Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do **it
    for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up
    next week.

    Doesn't it ever rain in this damn state? Water rationing
    will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over.

    Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

    Aug. 14th:

    Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead.

    Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out
    of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he
    asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?"

    My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail..
    Freaking Texas .

    What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here??

    Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.

    Posted 2 years ago by gatakitty #

  2. LOL!!!!! Yeah - the wind DOES suck!

    Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #

  3. ROFLMAO!!! I have seen it before, but I have to love it! The last version I saw Texas was Arizona--same problems there and in NM too. But it is a dry heat...

    Posted 2 years ago by SoxsMom #

  4. ACK!!! A "dry heat"!!!! We do love to say that, don't we? But it's still like living in a freaking hair dryer!!!!!

    Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #

  5. lol ain't that the living truth!

    Posted 2 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #

  6. For a moment there, I actually felt warm while reading that....

    Thanks, guys!

    Posted 2 years ago by jcat #

  7. This should help, too, JCat; it's the penultimate stanza of my all-time favorite poem:

    And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
    And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: “Please close that door.
    It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm—
    Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm.”

    --From "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service
    http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2640/?letter=C&spage=26

    Posted 2 years ago by gatakitty #

  8. This cracked me up when I read it. I DO feel like I'm living in a hair dryer! When I dry my hair, it makes me sweat!!!! 101 degrees today at 5 p.m. Yech! I would honestly *love* to be in NZ right now!!!

    Posted 2 years ago by lisaeylau #

  9. OMG, it's soooooo true!!!!!

    ROFLMAO!!!!! So true!! that's the "Lone Star State"!

    Posted 2 years ago by kittymom #

  10. I lived their for a year and half when I was 6 yrs of age. I remember the average temp was over 100 every day and we practically lived in the community pool.

    Now if you love the heat, don't forget the bugs...May flies in May and June bugs in June! Yechhh!!

    Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixMomma #

  11. ..... are you sure "he" wasn't in Tampa???!!!???????

    Posted 2 years ago by AV #

  12. Oh Ginny, that was great, as Jcat said I almost felt warmth while reading that. Talk about the heat and wind being problematical, we just get four seasons in one day here. That's also a song title for a Kiwi group. We have a slight pre-occupation with weather here due to our small country size and position on the globe.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sem05RHnM

    Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #

  13. LOL!! Starting to worry about being there in September... ;o)

    Posted 2 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #


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