A Summer in Florida

globalspot28

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A Summer in Florida


April 30th: Florida is fantastic! Just got here and love it already. Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

May 14th: Really heating up. Got to 89 today. Not a problem, I live in an air-conditioned home and drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a real sun worshipper.

June 5th: Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. NO MORE SHOVELING SNOW EITHER! Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 1st: The temperature hasn't been below 90 all week, not even at night. Where are those ocean breezes we heard about, still seems hot. Getting used to it will take a while, I guess. I sure miss my LP collection, though. I'll have to remember not to leave anything made out of plastic in my car. Got one of those fuzzy steering wheel covers, cheaper than the burn ointment for my hands. I always wondered what burnt flesh smelled like.

July 15th: Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed two 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 miss our cat, Tabby. He snuck into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, he'd swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and just as I opened the door he exploded all over $2,000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids he ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and poop. No more pets in this heat!

July 25th: Ocean breezes, haha. Hot is hot!! The home air conditioner is on the fritz and AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts. Only hope for a break in the heat would be a hurricane.

July 30th: Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Swatting the swamp mosquitoes that are as big as B-52's. $1,500 in darn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug 4th: 100 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to about 90. The electric bill is almost as much as the house payment. And two old lady drivers almost ran me off the road. I hate this state.


Aug 8th: If another wise jerk cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to tear his head off. Darn heat! By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like a roasted cat!!

Aug 10th: The weather report might as well be a damn recording: Hot and sunny. It's been too hot for two #@*& months and the Weatherman says it might really warm up next week. And whoever came up with the statement, "it may be hot, but at least you don't have to shovel it" should die from heat exhaustion. Doesn't it ever rain in this Godforsaken place??

Aug 14th: Welcome to Hell!!! Temperature got to 102 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the Lincoln. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?". My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out jail.

Aug 30th: Worst day of the summer. I'm not leaving the house. The monsoon rains finally came and all they did is to make it muggier than hell and drove the damned roaches out of the ground. I wasn't aware they could fly! The Lincoln is now floating somewhere in the Caribbean with its new $500 windshield. That does it, we're moving back to New Jersey where all you have to worry about is getting mugged. I hope this state breaks in half and floats to Cuba!
 

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Pretty funny, but not really what it's like here in the summer at all!
In the 100s?!?! lol...maybe once every 5 years! Steering wheels do get really freaking hot though, I'll give ya that!!!
 

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no, Lacey, he's not serious about the cat exploding. i've seen this one before. My friend in East LA (that's Eastern Lower Alabama) gets these quite frequently in her email.

I happen to think it's :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor: hiLARious!!!!!!
 

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LOL... the only part that was true about that was the steering wheel, and the hurricane part!
 

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WHEW!!!

I'm relieved! I was hoping it wasn't for real.

If you've seen the Pictures!Pictures! thread lately, you'll have noticed I have blonde hair.
 
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