Not Even Lions

 I wish I could say that I've had all these really important things going on, since you last heard from me, but it's just not so.

-Halloween is a HUGE deal here. I mean, it's fun, exciting, but I have never experienced Halloween like I have here. It just seems like the Hispanic culture gets way more in to it than it is back home. I could be wrong, but so far, that's my experience. The decorations were ridiculously awesome.. For example: 5 vintage porsches in the front yard with zombies driving them for the "death race", in house DJ's in the front yards, plane crash scene with actual small plane crashed in the yard?... i mean decked out. I'm already brainstorming for next year...

-It's cold here all of the sudden, which means it's FREEZING in my house because I have a swamp cooler. What's that you ask? The worst invention ANYONE has ever come up with. I remember when we were looking at houses to rent, I kept noticing signs on houses advertising "refrigerated air". Didn't really know what it meant, so didn't worry about it. Now I know that there's a reason why they advertise it, because you WANT THAT, not a swamp cooler. Let me explain... I'm not real sure what it is or completely understand it, but somehow it PUTS HUMIDITY/MOISTURE into my air.... WHAT?????? Literally it's a dial and a switch. Switch is "high-off-low" Dial is "9 8 7 6 5" 5 being the coolest. It just runs unless you have it on off.

1) If it's raining, it simply doesn't work because there is too much humidity in the air.

2)You have to vent the air. If I am in the kitchen (the hottest room in our house), i have to either open a window or the back door, so that it will pull all the cold air to that window. You have to give the air an escape! CRAZY! Of course, we were all sealed up for the first month, sweating our asses off, trying to keep all the "cool air" in. Then we learned.

Well, now that it's cold, apparently you can't just flip the switch to turn the heat on. There's a whole process to shutting down your swamp cooler for the season. You have to seal it up and do some kinda switcheroo. Sure, we could go ahead and do it, since the low is in the 30's, but it will randomly get up to 90 again and we will need the wonderful swamp cooler again. So, me, keith, hairless ellie, and olcase will just freeze until the desert decides it's done getting hot.