DH is about to lose his life...

Jess & Drew · June 2012

This NBR, but I need to vent because this is just that ridiculous.

Yesterday, DH decided we needed a new thermostat. There was absolutely nothing wrong with our old one other than it was a little older, but it still worked fine IMO. So he goes out and buys one and starts installing it. I decided not to "supervise the installation" (aka read the instruction manual because he won't), but i could hear him mumbling to himself the whole time. After a bunch of mumbling, he finally has it installed...or so he thinks. He turns the A/C on then goes around feeling the air vents to admire his handiwork. Then he comes into the living room where I was sitting and says "Does the air coming out of the vents usually start out hot and then turns cold?" WHAT?!?! Yeah dumb@$$ that sounds about right *hint of sarcasm*...it just comes out hot and floats around our polar palace and magically turns cold.

At this point, he decides he hooked something up wrong because "the instruction manual says if you have X setup (our setup), then you should have a professional install the thermostat:". And of course in his male brain he is an A/C professional because of course serving in the military on airplanes = A/C professional. So he gets on Dr. Google and actually gets it hooked up and working...until this morning. I woke up to this obnoxious noise, and I actually thought somebody was using a leaf blower at the crack of dawn. Nope no leaf blower, just our trusty old A/C that was working fine yesterday.

Right now it is 70ish degrees outside and the thing is struggling. Keep in mind we live in FL, and the high today is 97. I'm pretty sure the thing is going to blow up by the end of the day. And to top it off, my MIL comes into town this week. So if a broken A/C and an opinionated MIL don't spell recipe for hormonal rage then I don't know what does.