August 8, 2012

  • Its a funny thing about us mom's-a lot of the times we are right.

    Growing up, my mom always said that, whenever we would be having a heat wave, it was "earthquake weather".  She was right about 70% of the time.  Our first heatwave of the year and a small one hit last night.  Until the local news comes on, I'm not exactly sure what time it hit.  It was only about a 4.4 with a couple of 2.something aftershocks.  It was so hot last night in the house that I slept only in 30 minute increments and started my day at 2am. So either I didn't feel it or was asleep when it happened. People were posting about it on Twitter and also my Disneyland website when I got up.  I guess they shut down the rides immediately and walked people off.  The center was about an hour and a half to two hours north of me.  At one point, I woke up at 1am and heard Sam still playing a computer game so I'm anxious to see if he felt it.  Its just a way of life here.  I have my extra bottled water and supplies to last 3 days and replace them every other year.  I think the pets were too hot to even get excited about it.

    The hot weather is supposed to last through Saturday and then it will cool down for a couple of days.  It always takes me about a day to get used to it.  The humidity is high, but I can live with it.  Its the darned Santa Ana's we get in the fall when its hot and the humidity drops down into the teens that I absolutely hate!  I end up in a short-term committed relationship with my humidifiers.  I close up all the windows.  The boys and their friends always complain that the house feels like a tropical jungle and they expect to see monkeys swinging through on vines.  Do I care?  Nope.

    Knowing it was going to be a warm one, Buk and I were out of the house by 7am to go grocery shopping and to get him out while it was still cool.  I've got multiple fans set up on various levels including the floor to keep the pets comfortable.  Neko is the only one who really gets miserable.  Leon the Maine Coon cat with his big coat always hogs the fan on the bed-the boy is smart and knows what a fan does.  I plan for Buk and I to be out of the house early again this morning to go walk by the bay.  I'm going to try to work out in the yard while its still cool.  And then its paperwork day in front of fans-oh joy!  What I would give to blow my whole day off and head to my movie theater for several hours....

    I saw the massage therapist yesterday.  As I pulled in the driveway, my neighbor came out.  I went over to her house for about an hour and then suggested we seek relief from the heat on my patio for the next couple of hours.  I so enjoy talking to her-we talk about everything under the sun and, fortunately, have the same sense of humor.  So she laughed with me when I told her I had discovered there are free sex apps on our iPhones.  Me being me, of course, was wondering do couples whip out their phones during the act to see what they want to try next???  We had a good laugh over that.  We are going to go try to see "Moonrise Kingdom" over the next couple of weeks.  Amazing cast.  Bruce Willis isn't even recognizable in it!  I think its going to get a Best Picture nomination.

    Nothing new on the Mandie situation.  Which was nice.  I enjoyed a drama free day yesterday which was much needed.  That box isn't even being opened this morning.  its not that I don't care, but the craziness in their lives right now is. not. my. problem.

    One foot in front of the other, Leopardditz, one foot in front of the other.