keepin' cool.

hello errr' body!


almost two weeks ago, mike and i moved into a new, cute basement apartment. it's the perfect size for a newly wed couple (aka: tiny) and we love it. 


the only downside to this wee, new place is that there's no central air conditioning, not even a swamp cooler. the temperature outside is just getting warmer as we are nearing the end of july, and august isn't looking much cooler. 


i've googled a lot of ideas trying to find ways to keep cool for the next month or two. as many of you know, i work for nest and have gained a scant knowledge of HVAC systems. how i understand central air is very basic; the cool air gets to our house by the compressor coils cooling and the air handler blowing that cool air through the vents. 


in the 2.0 software update for nest, a feature called airwave was announced. this feature saves energy by turning off your compressor a few minutes before your home reaches the target temperature and the fan continues to blow through the coils before they fully cool. 


sooooooo... i got creative, or crazy. i asked mike to stop by the store on his way home from work one night to buy a case of water bottles. i then froze those water bottles. once they were frozen, i placed them in a big metal bowl and put my handy dual turbo force fan behind the bowl, pointed at our bed. our room dropped 4 degrees in a matter of minutes. 

(since it's saturday i have moved the ice bowl and fan out to the living room)

our freezer is currently filled with about 50 water bottles that i continuously cycle through the metal bowl as the ice melts in each bottle. it's no perfect fix, but i like to think that it's helping! 

* hmm let's see..I'm a little over 6ft and there's three of those. sooo 6 x 3 is..92ft? that seems a little high don't you think?*

instagram

well it's 230 am and i cannot sleep, again. nervous and anxious about finding a job. and missing my man that i feel like i won't see til we are married. that's a lie-- we are going to jim gaffigan on FRIDAY! who's excited?this girl!!!!!!!!!!!! it was a birthday present from michael and how cute is he?

(photo by alexa warren and instagramed by me)

that DIMPLE on his face is just too much, too much.

soo the new thing i'm gonna try is instagram. i have shared or posted, or whatever you do, 4 pictuers. and mike is in hardly any of them. hah, another lie.

i have been staying up late looking for apartments and jobs. my concern about a march wedding is finding the perfect place. we are looking to live in the provo/orem area and most contracts are set on college semesters, it seems, and march is the middle of everything. so tomorrow i am going to go look and see who can wait for a march move in, or mid february ish. any ideas and or suggestions are more than welcome!

the job thing is awful--what's up with that?

soooooo if you want to see all my cool posting on instagram, feel free to find me! i can't promise to be amazing, but it'll be fun, kinda. maybe that's another lie? stay tuned, folks.

**golds movies**