A Diary Review : Moving South

i386

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This is a little late being October and all. I tried to find it this summer but didn't until just now. Enjoy...

May 30,2007: Just moved to Birmingham, Alabama from Chicago, Illinois.Now this is the City that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park while lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.



June 14,2007 : Really heating up! Got to 100 degrees today! Not a problem. Live in an air conditioned home,drive a air conditioned car . What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this.I'm turning into a sun worshipper!



June 30,2007 :Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today, lots of cactus and rocks. The yard is a breeze to maintain! No more mowing the lawn for me! Another scorcher today, But I Love Living in Birmingham !



July 10,2007 : The temperature hasn't been below 100 degrees all week! How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least its windy, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer than expected.



July 15,2007 : Fell asleep by the 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 that ol sun in a climate like this!



July 20,2007 : Morgan ( our cat) sneaked into the car when I left for work this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2000 leather upholstery. I told the kids she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and s***s. I learned my lesson, though. No more pets in this heat!



July 25,2007 : 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 tell me he had to order the parts!



July 30, 2007 : Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now! The monthly house payment is $1500 and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?



August 4,2007 : It's 105 degrees. Finally got the AC fixed today for the cost of $900. The temperature gets down to 78 degrees, but this humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95 degrees! I hate this stupid City!



August 8,2007: If another wise a** person 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!



August 9,2007 : Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seats in the ol car. I thought my a** was on fire! I lost two layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and a**. Now my car smells like burnt hair and fried a**, and baked cat!



August 10,2007: The weather report might as well be a recording. Hot and Sunny! Hot and Sunny! Its been too hot to do anything for two damn months, and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week! Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next! so I might as well watch $1700 worth of cactus just dry up and blow into the pool. Not even cactus can live in this damn heat!



August 14,2007 : Welcome to Hell! The Temperature got to 105 degrees today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car! The Installer came to fix it today and said " Hot enough for you today"? My wife had to spend $1500 house payment to bail me out of jail. Freaking South. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?
 

tommays

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

LOL :D



You got tears out me thats so funny




Tommays
 

Gary H NC

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

Too funny!!! Welcome to the south!!
It will be worth it when we have those days in Feb. that are 70 degrees;)
 

aspeck

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

Glad to live in the north - my philosophy: "You can always put on another layer, but there is only so much you can take off!"

Bring on the sub-freezing temps and snow ... lot's of snow!
 

BoatBuoy

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

Yea, but it's enjoyable watching the ladies experimenting with how much they can take off.
 

studlymandingo

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

I first moved to Florida in the last week of July several years ago; when I got here, everyone kept saying "you're crazy moving here in the middle of the summer". I didn't move from Chicago (I have lived as far north as D.C.) I moved from Nashville, TN. It is humid here for sure, but we live close enough to the water where we still get some respite. Yeah it is hot here for sure, but it hasn't broken the 100 mark in the six years I've lived here.

I like it hot!!!

I like to visit winter for a few days of skiing and snowboarding... then come home to t-shirt and shorts and a day on the water!​
 

tashasdaddy

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

i totally agree, alergic to snow.
 

Limited-Time

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

You cant beat snow.................................................
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For Christmas that is.:p;):D
 

i386

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Re: A Diary Review : Moving South

We hardly ever get snow anymore. I like it every once and a while. I could do without the ice storms that take down trees and power lines though. That seems to be the worst of what happens around here.
 
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