Our House is for Sale!

Alternate Title: how to create an instant Murphy’s Law.

 Ben and I have been feeling for a while that we were suppose to sell our house.

To a certain (huge) degree, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

But we feel we are suppose to.

So we decided to, step out in that shaky grey area of faith.

Our AC promptly went out.

OUT. {we didn’t know for a while how OUT it would be}

On a late Friday afternoon.

We cocked our head to the side and threw our shoulders back- We GOT this. What an adventure to be in an Arkansas June without AC! GAME ON.

We’ll win this thing!!!

how fun!… we told ourselves.

it’s like camping! …we told ourselves.

By Monday {day 3} we felt like we were missionaries in Haiti or Indonesia {or any place it felt like hell outside} and we became very spiritual.

Me: wow, I am so thankful that God didn’t call us to live in Indonesia. It’s really hot there and we’d feel like this most of the time.   I mean, this is terrible and it’s only 84 in the house. I really feel bad for the countries and cultures around the equator.

Ben: Yes, that would suck. I’m glad we aren’t in India either. It’s amazing the conditions the missionaries live in. No wonder the southern states are so fat. I can’t do anything but lay here and pray that this stupid AC gets fixed asap.

Me: Thank you Jesus for air condition! May the hands that repair ours be blessed. May they be speedy hands that come quickly to our rescue! {ok, perhaps I’m embellishing here a bit.}

Ben: We should read James 1 together, count it all JOY! So, we are building endurance though this trial.

Me: This is like a Christian bootcamp! We are learning and growing so much. Wow, I’m so thankful for this growth opportunity!

By Wednesday {day 5} the heat had made me insane:

Ben: How was your day at work?

Me (sarcastically): Greeeeat, just great.

Ben, concerned: Oh, ok. So your day wasn’t good then?”

Me: NO IT WAS GREAT!

Ben: I’m getting mixed messages.

Me: STOP HARASSING ME! WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO?!?!

Ben: ……….

By day  7 I was a hopeless mess.

Me: Tell me again what is going on?

Ben: I’VE ALREADY TOLD YOU 10 OTHER TIMES!

Me: What?

Ben: I’VE ALREADY TOLD YOU.

Me: What did you tell me?

Ben: About why the AC isn’t working. The first guy thought he knew what was going on and when he came back to fix it, it ended up being a different problem that he couldn’t fix, so then I called the people who fix our Carrier type system and they are backed up. Then when that guy finally came, he said that this has been a common problem but that our part is still under warranty because it’s a newer system. Then when we had them call Carrier, they are claiming that the paperwork was never turned in so instead of a simple fix- it’s looking like we are out $4,000 to get a new system. Long story short- we don’t have $4,000. They are kind of giving us the run around and we’ll probably have to get a lawyer to send a letter so in the meantime- no air condition in the foreseeable future while we wait and see if they are going to do the right thing.  We’ll have to keep using Harmony’s plug in air conditioner and the kids can keep sleeping with us at night {like they have been for the last week}.

Me: {begins quietly sobbing hopelessly}

By day 9-12 I can’t write what I said because it’d all be banned for the profanity that it would contain.

By day 14 {2 WEEKS without AC} I was quoting the *slightly less* helpful parts of the bible.

Me, delusionally: Do you remember what Job’s wife told him to do?

Ben, knowing but not wanting me to talk because it put more hot air into our furnace house.

Me, knowing he didn’t want me to talk but feeling the need to answer myself since no one else cared: She said to curse God and die. I wonder why she felt that way? They were probably really hot. It doesn’t say in Job if in addition to all the loss that he experienced that there was a heat wave.

Ben, ignoring me.

Me: Yeah. There was probably a heat wave.

By day 16… we realized that meeeh, it’s not so bad. Could be worse.

Me: OH it’s going to rain! YES! Cooler weather! But the house hasn’t felt so bad the last few days.

Ben: I left the back window open with the box fan, hopefully that will have helped cool the house while we’ve been out! and yeah, it’s been around 82. With a box fan blowing on you,  it’s not so bad!

<gleeful high five> Back at the house.

Ben: it’s 76 {muggy} degrees in the house! This is the COOLEST it’s been since the AC went out!

Me: WOOHOO! This is AWESOME! YAY!

<victorious chest bump> We GOT this! YEAH!

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If anyone wants a charming 4 bedroom, 3 full bath home in the best Springdale schools, on a beautiful plot of earth in a great neighborhood extremely close to Fayetteville and only 15-20 min commute to the Walmart vendor world, with a brand new AC unit, do give us a shout.

Eventually.

This too shall pass, right? 😉 Please pray that all the corporate red tape on the “missing” warranty approving the repair of our air conditioner is found, passed and expeditiously repaired. Pretty Please.