This & That

I haven't been in Bloglandia for a while because Mica and I and a couple other friends had a yard-sale at her place. It has been so much work going through so much trying to come up with stuff to get rid of. The time with friends was so completely worth any reason to get together, but the sale itself was a total flop. Way too much work, and lots of disappointment, but hey, you live and learn. We both had some furniture, and none of it sold! I remember that when I lived in CA that would have been the first thing to go!

I've already spent all my earnings. I made barely anything. Basically I gave Kevin a dinner and movie date. He wanted to see "Get Smart" which wasn't as dumb as I thought it would be, but I could have done without the few gay jokes in it. Actually I probably would have really liked it otherwise. Well, maybe. Anyway, so we caught a matinee of that after church not something we'd normally do on the Lord's day, but because we wanted to be someplace with air conditioning for a while. Then we stopped into the brand new Little Caesar's and got a pizza to have for dinner. So, between the $15 for movie tickets and the 6.50 for pizza and extra sauce, the earnings are all gone. Poof! Yup, I barely made anything. I think most of the truck-full of stuff is back in the truck, ready to go to the Goodwill. The thing I really made money off of was a plate of cookies I baked. I think most of my profits was more bake sale than yard sale, oh well. I really think the heat is one of the reasons it did so poorly! Especially on saturday. I think it was the first time ever that I saw a saturday sale be worst then the friday sale. We literally saw people driving by with windows rolled up to keep the AC in, look from the car and drive off. I mean really, how can you tell if something you want is there or not by looking from the car? I know I do that sometimes, but that's mostly towards the end of the day when the money and energy is running out, not all day long. This was all day. I don't blame them, I wouldn't want to get out unless I saw diamonds for 50 cents or something, but for us sitting in the heat getting burned in more than one way, it was just disappointing. The yard sale really stunk! Aside from the heat being so overwhelming, I got a sunburn on my right shoulder and cheeks, and I've had a headache on and off from exhaustion. Slurring and crabby.

This record heat wave is killing us! I didn't sleep well at all last night, and I'd be amazed if Kevin really got restful sleep either. And it's been a humid heat, so three showers yesterday didn't feel like enough! Man alive, I feel like explaining my blogging hiatus is nothing but complaining. I think we're going to, for medical reasons, not buy groceries this month, live off of spaghetti and mac and cheese, and buy an AC for the bedroom, at least in this misery I can always hope. I really hate summer, I hate how tired it makes me, how my body swells up because no matter how much I drink water it's not enough, how the tired makes the headaches and the lack of coordination, and the nothing getting accomplished. Lucky husband, he gets to go to a job with AC, my work continues to wait for me here in this oven. I do not like heat. I feel oppressed too when I can't escape it like this. Is there a climate somewhere that only feels like fall to spring and no summer? I'm sure there is, but their winters last too long. Speaking of too long, another thing I don't like about summer is the few hours of darkness each day! I feel like I'm being held in a constant state of awake. I looked up the latest hours of darkness... well, what I found was that sunset to sunrise is about 8 hours right now. And really it's less than that, because dawn and dusk are still light out. Oh well. No place has perfect weather all the time. I just wish I had an air conditioner. I can't stand this. It would help if we had a cross breeze, but it's either been packing in humidity into the house, or blowing in hotter air, so opening up doesn't help! Plus when we put the window fans in they suck in so many flies! We don't have holes in the screens, they're being pulled in because of the fans. They're all the little fruit flies and such, nothing big, but enough that I have to keep checking my glass to make sure nothing has flown into it. I'm hanging my bug zapper inside on my pot rack, this all feels so white trash. ;-(

I don't want to complain, I just can't feel like I can exist, I'm having the hardest time getting anything done, maybe I'll just sit and melt on the couch reading a book. We did have some thunder last night, that was supposed to cool things down, but the sun is out and it's hot all over again. The heat is so oppressing to me. I'm seriously considering pulling a Margot Tenenbaum (From the movie the Royal Tenenbaum's) and living in the bathtub, yeah, that's it, I'll live in the bathtub with my books and a radio.

I had so much fun hanging out with the Mica and her family for a few days, but next time I think we'll have to come up with another reason to get together. We're actually planning a camping trip, that should be MUCH better.

Well, I think I need to get more ice water in me. My Ball-Park Franks feet are swelling twice the size and it's starting to hurt. And my arthritis is pretty inflamed. For that reason I really do need to cool down somehow. I hope everyone else is surviving summer much better than me! And that's my update, maybe I shouldn't have bothered.