I’m ready to crack. The house is great, but we have to figure each other out. Middle Eastern houses all have their own special features and learning how to navigate my way around them takes a bit of patience. I don’t have much to spare these days.
My bathroom has the hot water and cold water switched (not that unusual in this area of the world). I got stuck taking a lukewarm bath because I didn’t figure it out until the tub was 1/2 full. The next day I took a shower and felt like I was being molested by the shower curtain because it was right on my backside. My old shower may have had a droopy curtain and the shower head held up by a zip-tie, but I had plenty of breathing room and endless hot water. Oh, and it actually kept all the water in the tub instead of funneling it onto the floor in a glorious waterfall. I think this tub must be installed on a slight backwards slope because any water that hits the walls or sides of the tub runs to the back and along a line of grout onto the floor. Enough to flood the entire bathroom.
And the nonstop blowing air from every vent in the house. It feels like I’m in the Arctic. I am wearing layers as write this. Yes, I want the house to be cooler than outside, but I can’t figure out how to keep from feeling like I’m under a blast cooler without turning off the AC entirely. Which I have done and feel marvelously comfortable for about 10 minutes until the air starts getting sticky and stuffy from the humidity creeping in under the doors and through the window cracks. Our old house had separate AC units that would drip water and I could never find the remote to adjust them, but I could angle the vents toward the ceiling so when they were working properly I didn’t feel cold, just comfortable.
I’m trying to figure out how to feel comfortable.