Shit Its Hot!

Hi I'm Sarah, and I'm allergic to the heat [Hi Sarah]...

Ok, so I'm a bit dramatic. But I haaaate the heat. Its been 45 degrees today, and we're not getting any relief til the weekend. So, I thought I'd test our new inverter air conditioner out, and along with my meter readings, see just how much power it uses.

What a shock.

I've had it running for about 24 hours now set to 25 degrees, so it turns itself on and off as it pleases. I've used 30kw! I usually use under 10 a day (its just me home at the moment, but we run pumps for all our water, and we also have a poor fridge in the hot shed). But, I gotta say, its been worth it! I might put a bit of extra money aside for the next power bill and just leave it running. I'm bad, I know. I've told my cousin to come over whenever he and his fiancee want - they live about half a km down the road in a very old besser brick building and its like living in an oven.

Tonight is our first read through for the play - I auditioned for the local arts group for the first time, and I've scored a part of a maid called Beth. Its a british play called Dry Rot, and I'm not sure if I'm going to talk with an accent or not. Its a bit embarrassing, but I'm sure after tonight I won't be so nervous. My MIL and SFIL (step father in law) are both in it too, and my SFIL has been in heaps of them before, so it'll be good to do something with them.

I love it when the supermarket stuffs up! They ordered some 64 page exercise books since its back to school time, but stuffed up the order and ordered way too many, so they've got them out for 5 cents each!!! I grabbed 20 of them (all that were left by the time I got there) and just think its fantastic. I'd planned on making my niece and nephew little office sets for their birthdays this year (some stickers, textas, etc) so now I can add an exercise book each (and they're Bratz and Bob The Builder type ones, so the kids will love that too).

Our dogs have one of those plastic clam shell halves as their swimming pool in weather like this, but I'm about to go put some ice in their water (drinking and pool) to keep my doggos cool!