I think it is safe to say that Will and I have become addicted to Hollywood Video.  We didn't plan on renting any movies this weekend but somehow we came home with three of them.  I think the plan is to watch movies in the bedroom (the room with the air conditioner) all weekend and just ride out the heat wave that's taken over Portland.

Can I just take a minute to say that our PDX apartment is so completely superior to our Roseburg apartment.  Our apartment in Roseburg was a great little starter place (with holy crap I can't believe we gave that up rent/utility costs) in most respects.  Sure only having one closet was kind of annoying and led to my development of a "I don't want to keep anything! Anymore! So help me, my closets will never be stuffed to the gills again!" complex and the neighbors liked to smoke so much pot that we'd get contact highs just from being home at the same time as them, but really it wasn't a bad little place.  What's more, it had one of the best views of downtown Roseburg that you could get.

The view could be seen through our ginormous kitchen and bedroom windows (the only windows in the place).  I think, when added together, we had 64 square feet of windows in our apartment.  This posed a little bit of a problem because all 64 of those square feet? Faced west. And, because we were on the top floor of the building, the trees didn't provide the windows with any shade.  So from one minute after noon until the sun finally set below the hills (usually a good nine and a half hours later in the summer) the sun beat into our apartment through the windows, raising the temperature of our apartment a good thirty degrees higher than the temperature outside.  This was fantastic in the winter and heinous in the summer.

Our PDX apartment is larger, has more closets and is twice as much as the Roseburg apartment, but this apartment almost never gets direct sunlight.  We are on the bottom floor and while the bedroom windows face west, they are shaded by very tall trees, so they only see an hour or so tops of direct sunlight.  The windows in the living room and dining room face North.  No direct sunlight there! Happy!  Our PDX apartment is a good ten to twenty degrees cooler than the outside temperatures and let me tell you, it is a welcome change.  Yesterday when the temperatures got up to 105, I had the fans on and sure, I felt hot but not "oh my god I'm roasting alive" hot.

Still though, a weekend lounging on our bed in front of the air conditioner and watching movies?  Sounds pretty good to me!