Lion and Lambs

I just clicked on the link that CNN has put up to announce the new seven human built wonders of the world. I thought to myself, how appropriate that they would choose today to reveal them. Much to my disappointment however, there are only pictures of three of them. Do they assume we all already know what these amazing monuments look like? Perhaps being educated in the U.S. I should. I don’t. Hopefully there will be more reports about this and someone will be courteous enough to link photos. If not, I suppose I will have to put good ole Google or Dogpile to work. Right now a plane is landing with a relative I need to retrieve.

I just want to know how it is that a person can be born in one of the hottest city’s in the country, spend their entire life here, with a short five year exception fourteen years ago, and each year the heat bothers me more and more. Okay, by bothers I don’t mean it makes me uncomfortable, it downright makes me ill, triggering horrible migraine episodes. Even short walks from say the car to my office, or from the theater to the restaurant across the parking lot, are enough to make we extremely nauseous and faint feeling. (which, as an unpleasant bonus does save me money on food) It also makes my head feel like I have been hit in the backside of it with a two by four, and leaves me exhausted and unmotivated for work or social activities until I can get completely cooled.

My brother and sister actually love this weather. My sister wears a sweater in the office so I can have the air down to eighty! Apparently their thermostats are in tact, still set to their birthplace. I would sure like to know when and how I broke mine, and where is the body shop that fixes them???

Staying with the idea of oxymoron situations, I want to talk about the water in Phoenix. Let’s call it a note of warning to would be visitors to the desert during the HOT summer months.

Normally when you turn on the faucet, say to take a shower, the logical thing is to turn on the hot water and let it heat up before you turn on the cold to adjust the water to your perfect temperature. Not so here. In the summer, you turn on the cold water and let it cool down before you turn on the hot water to adjust the temperature. If you just want to wash your hands or rinse something, you turn on the hot water because there is much less chance of being scalded in the short time the faucet is running.

Now that you are aware, you can also avoid the typical mistake of letting the building owner know the handles have been plumbed backwards.