Bad thinking, I know.

But August sucked and I just figured September would improve.

So I had my first signs yesterday that September is NOT improving.

It just wasn't a good day.

Dh put the kids down last night and I was downstairs by the AC unit outside when I heard it flip on and off with a ca-thunk.

"Lovely" I thought. Dh came downstairs and I knew he was turning the AC on for them. I told him he broke the AC.

He said, "Oh no, I accidentally flipped it on and off, but turned it back on." I said, "well, you BROKE it. It is not turning back on."

We argued a bit because it did not turn on after 5 minutes and he wasn't getting the point that it doesn't take 5 minutes to get going and that it was NOT working.

I asked him to go look at it. (Make sure it wasn't smoking or something, or nothing obvious wrong. LOL).

Anyway, so he did flip it on downstairs and it revved up. PHEW!

So I turned it on upstairs and it made the same cathunk. It flipped on and off. We argued more as I explained to dh I did nothing but turn it on. He insisted I turned it off the minute it started. I explained to him all I did was turn it on - he heard the same ca-thunk I did.

The good is the thing works. Of course since it only seemed to be the thermostat that stopped working, upstairs, since the downstairs was totally fine, I started to think maybe a fuse blew. So I started turning on all the lights and switches to test this theory, and the ceiling fan started making this horrible noise. !! I turned it off immediately and realized the kids had been playing with the dangly chains on it and they had gotten all wrapped up in the fan. LOVELY. They just weren't long enough to do to much damage so I was unwrapping all the chains. & mentally making a note not to touch anything. At that point I just felt JINXED.

Anyway, the plus is that it is September (though it is s'posed to be 99 degrees all next week) and regardless of the cathunk it seems to be more electrical than AC related. We still have AC downstairs... & AC at night is pretty unnecessary in September - it cools off rather quickly at night.

So I will probably have my dad look at it for an opinion and dh said we should get it fixed in February when maybe it is cheaper. He has a point.

It could just be a small simple repair (likely really), but I am bracing myself for the worst.

So I know, I should start thinking positively, but all I can think is, "UGH!"

I do admit I can't help but feel lucky that if our AC must die, September is the month to do it. Rather than in the middle of July or to find out on the first hot day of the year. I will admit that is lucky. Phew... But it would be way more lucky if it would just work as it should. Bah.

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Since last week we had about 7 no-spend days. Out of necessity anyway.

If dh has enough gas in his car for me to go to work and preschool today, then we are set for NSDs.

The credit card closes today and tomorrow I need to buy gas (for both cars probably) and I need to buy some work shoes. Just been putting everything off.

Dh did buy groceries over the weekend - that was the exception.

Now that we can spend money again we need to prioritize. We have a few things we want to do in September but we have to sit down and see what we can fit in the budget. Still trying to save our pennies and make up some of these computer and dental costs, from the regular budget. Which means little if any eating out, maybe skipping date night, etc. We'll see.