Arizona

[Redlined]

Just moved to Arizona! 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 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 shits. 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 get 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 I 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. It's been too hot to do shit for 2 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 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 said. "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Arizona. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here.

 

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

[PyRo_ZaCh]

AUG. 1

Moved to our new home in Kootenays. It is so beautiful here. The country is so picturesque. Can hardly wait to see it covered with snow. I LOVE IT HERE

OCT. 14

The Kootenays Are the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves are turning all different colors. I love the shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the hills and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most peaceful animals on earth. This must be paradise. I LOVE IT HERE.

 

NOV. 11

Deer season will open soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such an elegant creature. The very symbol of peace and tranquility. Hope it will snow soon. I LOVE IT HERE.

 

DEC. 2

It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed in white. It looked like a postcard. Went outside and cleaned snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight today (I won). When the snowplow came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Mother Nature in perfect harmony. I LOVE IT HERE.

 

DEC. 12

More snow last night. I love it. The snowplow did his trick again that rascal. A winter wonderland. I LOVE IT HERE.

 

DEC. 19

Snowed again last night. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work this time. I'm exhausted from shoveling. Dang Snowplow!

 

DEC. 22

More of that white junk fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands from shoveling. I think the snowplow hides around the corner and waits until I'm done shoveling. That #@$%*!

 

DEC. 25

"White Christmas" Whatever!. Damn snow. If I ever get my hands on that #@$%*&@# who drives that snowplow, I swear I will injure the dumb #@$%*!!. Don't know why they don't use more salt on this stupid ice.

 

DEC. 28

More of the same junk last night. Been inside since Christmas day except for when "Snowplow Harry" comes by. Can't go anywhere. The car is buried in a mountain of white junk. The weatherman says expect another 10 inches of this stuff tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?

 

JAN. 1

Happy F-ing New Year. The weatherman was wrong (AGAIN). We got 34 freakin' inches of snow this time. At this rate it won't melt until the 4th of July. The snowplow got stuck down the road and garbage for brains had the guts to come to the door and ask to borrow my shovel. I told him I broke 6 shovels already, shoveling out the snow he plowed into my driveway. I broke the 7th shovel over his little head.

 

JAN. 4

Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on the way back a deer ran out in front of the car and I hit 'em. Did about $3,000.00 damage to the car. Wish the hunters would have killed them all last November.

 

MAY 3

Took the car to the garage in town today. Would you believe the body is rotting away from all the damn salt they keep dumping all over the roads. It really looks like a piece of scrap metal.

 

MAY 10

Moved to Florida today. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would want to live in the Kootenays!!!

[Otis]

But it's a dry heat.....

 

welcome to the south west....

[redcell43]

Born and raised here. And you dont have to shovel sunshine. you dont like it then leave.

they estimate that by 2008 there will be more californians here than Zonies. Theres already more outa state people than natives.Another thing is that those Cali peeps are coming here in droves I have no problem with that you ask them why they left and 90% of them say the same thing to get away from the rising prices of land, gas, and everything else. SO they come over here and start voting on thing to change AZ into another California.

Edited August 24, 2005 by redcell43

[dogboystoy]

Fortunately I get to Visit AZ in the fall and spring so I get to miss the major heat waves. But I love AZ, but glad I dont live there.

[SANDSTAR]

The 'Zone used to be a great place to live. No crowded lakes, plenty of places to ride. Now the influx of people have me eyeing Montana or Wyoming.

[redcell43]

The 'Zone used to be a great place to live. No crowded lakes, plenty of places to ride. Now the influx of people have me eyeing Montana or Wyoming.

407939[/snapback]

agreeded but i cant handle the snow i will have to stay in the desert. maybe cancun.