100 degrees and finally dropping – living without an air conditioner

Oh my God!  We finally got our air conditioner running.  It needed to be recharged.  We weren’t planning on turning it on so soon in the year though, but this heat and humidity took us by storm.  Last year we didn’t even need to turn it on until the last week of summer, when we discovered it wasn’t working.  Grr.  What was the point in fixing the air conditioner when we were only going to need it for another week or two.  Last year we sweat it out.  But this year, it’s only June.  Now, I like it warm.  If I had my way the heater would be cranking it out to 85 degrees all winter long.  So I really wasn’t expecting to want to turn on the air until around August.  But yesterday as I was sitting there melting in my chair I turned to my Honey and said, “Let’s get the air conditioner running.” I couldn’t think, I couldn’t move, the kids were breaking out in heat rashes.  Humingbird even threw up yesterday morning because of the heat.   So we called up the guy and he came out today to put more of that wonderful toxic gas into it.  Now it’s a nice dry 83 degrees.  Ahhhh.  That’s better.

It is a bit of a conflict though.  On the one hand, I long to be able to stay away from such unnatural and unhealthy methods of living.  But on the other hand, we don’t live in a house that can allow for comfortable living without it.  This house was designed for air conditioning.  What is one to do other than move into a cave or something?  What are the options?