Love it!

It’s hot. H-O-T hot. It’s so hot, that my refrigerator has ran out of ice so now I have to drink sort-of cool water. But I love it. I love the heat and I love how tired it makes me, because I love taking afternoon naps on my couch during a long quiet weekend.

On Friday, I sat on my dusty porch with the dog and watched families around the neighborhood pack up their trucks and SUV’s and head out of town. It occurred to me that we might be at a time in our lives when we should consider renting a cabin some weekend and inviting friends up for some good ol’ Minnesota style hanging-around-ness. I mentioned this revelation to my husband and he loved it. So there you go. One of these summer weekends, we may just pack up our own SUV and head “up North”. Why the heck not.

Also, we now own a boat. It’s a long story and I didn’t necessarily want said boat, but now it’s ours and we don’t know where to put it. It’s just a rickety old thing and I don’t want it taking up space in my back yard (which is now a huge plot of dirt because it is taking twice as long to do the landscaping as we expected, but I digress…). Any ideas?

What else? Oh yeah. I have made a decision. Starting tomorrow, no more daytime television. Since I stopped working, I have done basically nothing. Other than a lovely trip to NYC, I have laid on my couch and learned about all sorts of scrumptious dishes I will probably never cook on the Food Channel, and I have made long lists of all the places I will probably never get to visit from the Travel Channel. I can quote Dr. Phil in my sleep and I often do. I don’t know where this lazy streak came from, but I suspect is has something to do with the utter exhaustion I felt after entirely too long at a job where I was surrounded by ugliness. I took a break, maybe even sort of a deserved break, but now it’s over. Starting tomorrow, I will read and write and walk the dog.

You are all my witnesses. Seriously.