I love it in the house, I love it in the car, I love it in the supermarket, I love it in the department store, I love it in the bookstore, I will love it all summer long!
I remember especially loving it when I visited our ballerina daughter in Orlando in 2005 August-September. (Boy, did I love the Orlando Ballet studios!)
I love the window air conditioner in my old bedroom on LI.
I love that wonderful feeling of cold as I come in from outside.
I love it in my kitchen, my bathroom, my bedroom, my family room!
Last summer we almost didn't use it at all. I loved last summer's weather!
I know that if we didn't have it, I would just lie down all day with all the fans in the house trained on me, blowing hot air (but at least blowing air). Those days are so over!
We lived without air conditioning for decades. I raised 6 kids without it. I used to drag our mattresses onto the little balcony we had off one of our bedrooms and we'd sleep there - until the night a family of raccoons wanted to keep us company (the balcony was just a few feet above ground level)!
I often carted the kids + the mattresses into the basement at night so we could sleep. I've slept outside in a Mayan hammock - quite cosy and nestlike - and on a mattress on the grass in the backyard with hubby. We lived within walking distance of a shopping mall, so I and the children went there daily in heat waves to get relief.
Our house was like a saun! (Spell check is telling me to change this to "sauna" - as if it didn't know "saun" is the Estonian word for it!)
What to others is a given, is to me a gift and a privilege, still recent enough to extol the virtues of. The birth of our last child 20 years ago was during a heat wave and I had three fans pointed at me all through labour. The midwives had to turn them off in order to check the heartbeat, then put them back on again.
I love open windows and open breezes, but when the sun is scorching, a/c is a godsend.
I was referring above to my childhood bedroom as it is now, but, truth is, I did have my own air conditioner in it during university. The campus buildings were all hot back then - a benefit during our summer dance courses because it made us instantly more flexible! - but at home I had a/c.
Even when we're not using it, just knowing that it's there is very, very comforting!
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