It’s been well over 100 degrees this past week.  In fact, several days have hovered around the 109-110 range.  This means we’ve been running our two A/C units most of the day, and needing them to sleep at night.

When Garbanzo started getting heat rash just from sleeping at night, we felt guilty enough to start letting the kids sleep in our room.  It’s one of the two rooms that have an A/C, so we dragged Chickpea’s trundle mattress next to our bed, and set up the Pack-n-Play at the foot of our bed.  If you saw how tiny our master bedroom is, you’d laugh at the sight of this.  We’ll pretty much be having a giant slumber party the rest of the summer.  Or at least until the temp drops below 90.

Our bedroom, without the two extra beds.

So to add to the fun, our electricity went out today.  We opened the front door and saw that the building’s hall lights were on, so that meant it was just our place.  Great.  Kabob loaded up the kids, and the three of them headed to the electrical company.

It was Friday at noon.  Oops.  The offices are closed for break and for prayer.  So they puttered around until 1:30ish, when the offices opened again.

We have automatic payment from our local bank account here, but that’s the only thing we use this account for.  Every month, we transfer money from our American bank into this one, just enough to pay all our bills.  It’s never been a problem.  But this month, they decided to just not withdraw the money for the bill.

They gave us a notice in our mailbox that we hadn’t paid yet.  At the same time, they turned off the electricity.  Kabob saw the notice as he was leaving with the kids, so he knew exactly what was going on.

So he stood in line, paid the bill in cash to the lady at the window, while I stayed home and read while my feet were dipped in the kiddie pool.  Oddly, it was cooler outside, in the plus-100 degree heat, than it was inside.

About an hour ago, they turned the electric back on.  So no longer are we sweating just from sitting on the couch.

That’s today so far.  Wonder what else is around the corner?

posted: 09 July 24
under: culture