Diary of a new Texan

[Big N' Blue]

Dear Diary,
Just moved to Texas ! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the community pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and Shits. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now, $225,000 house and I can't even go inside.. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
Its 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise ass cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat.. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do shit for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn state? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas . What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?? Will write later to let you know how the trial goes

[coadycurbow]

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read this, but ain't it the truth! LOL

[outlaw13]

now that i have been back in northern cali in the mountains for a few years and i was thinking that i kinda missed texas but then i read that and remembered how hot it was and when i lived there how i used to think "man i really miss living in the mountains". I guess the grass is really greener on the other side until your there.

[timothy]

No shit, I grew up in Texas moved out when I was 18 and joined the army. I went all over the East coast, gotta say though Iraq was worse! anyways back to my story, after me and my wife got out of the army in Georgia we moved to Utah. spent 2 years here then went to texas in july of 2010. DAMN it was hot!!! Decided my next trip wont be until this thanksgiving!

Too bad it will still be 80 degrees outside on a cool day.

[come-hunt]

Gotta be someplace? I'm in the Panhandle. 31 straight days over 100 degrees, the hottest has been 119 degrees at Childress.What grass we had is burned brown or has been burned off with fire. 63 percent humidity is all the moisture we have had since Feb.It could be worse,I could have to live in Dallas.
13 inches of rainfall a year isn't bad except the day we get it.
Great State Texas is!

[porkchop]

Man my cheeks are hurtin. I replaced texas with Pheonix, My Dad is moving there next week and he Keeps saying how much he is going to love the HEAT