The heat wave has finally broken, and we’re all rather comfy at 77°F at the moment. We’re still running around half-naked and Eddie is eating freeze-pops as though they will be banned sometime tomorrow, but thankfully the animals aren’t dying of the heat/humidity any longer. With any luck, the next time weather like that rolls back in, we’ll be in the new place with the a/c.
Eddie spoke to the office yesterday and confirmed that we won’t need to pay our last month’s rent, which gives us an extra $750 in the bank, which will be put towards the truck’s repairs and getting the rest of the new place finished off. With any luck this week we’ll be able to actually finish the bedroom, providing that we can get the storage totes out of there so that we can actually get to all of the walls. I also want to get the cabinets doors finished off. I know that I’ve been posting about those damned cabinets for 4 weeks now, but this time I mean it - I will be buying knobs and putting up the doors this week.
Aside from working on the new place there’s not a helluva lot happening this weekend. We’ll be going to the movies on Friday, and hopefully playing some WoW on Saturday night and since I decided to grab myself a level 19 Ghost Saber which I’ve managed to get to level 41 (out of 70 remember) I know what I’ll be doing on Sunday.
It is really too fucking hot today. Even with the a/c on high in the spare room and all the windows in here closed, this room isn’t getting as cool as it has been.
It’s getting way too hot lately. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long, but it seems like it’s just going to get worse as the weekend/next week progresses. This means that we’re going to be miserably sticky, which sucks. Pickle might end up moved into the other room where it’s much cooler. We’ll have to see how things go and whether or not the a/c keeps the 2 rooms cool.
I signed up for my medical coverage last night. Hopefully at the same time it goes into effect my raise will kick in. I don’t expect the raise to offset the coverage entirely (impossible when the medical is about $45/week for the two of us), but it won’t hurt in the least. It goes into effect August 20th, and Eddie is positively thrilled at the prospect of getting new glasses, and I’m looking forward to going to the doctors and finding out about getting my tubes tied and possibly getting my ass medicated (birth control until I can get something more permanent done, antidepressant/anxiety). Such fun!
I think I’m going to have some peaches and tuna in a pita for lunch today. Eddie told me I can’t open the canned pears we bought last night until I finish the peaches in the fridge.
As a bit of a warning, those of you who read my site (the actual site, not the Livejournal or the RSS feed) might notice that stuff goes crazy later this evening. I’m testing out some new code, but it won’t have any effect until later tonight because it’s time-based. Unfortunately it should be going live about 2 hours before I get out of work, so I won’t get to troubleshoot things until I pick up Eddie and get back home.
I busted out Pickle’s ice bottle again so she can stay cool in the cage. I need to scrub out her “pool” because it looks like I dropped a bit of black dye into it the other day. Currently she’s running around the living room with the rubber keychain, searching for the ultimate hiding place for it, stopping every now and then for a bite to eat behind her cage where she kicks all her food for later consumption.
Today has been hell for my sinuses. For some reason I have been sneezing all friggin day. I’d try to stich a monkey up and I’d have to stop 3 times because of either a sneezing fit or just having one of those drippy-nose feelings that drives you insane, makes you think you’ve somehow managed to fit Niagara Falls somewhere just behind your left eye, and has you reaching for the tissue only to discover you’ve got a couple of tiny but oh-so-stubborn drops of snot that won’t come out no matter what.
I did the dishes this morning after running the dishwasher through 1 cycle while empty just to make certain that things worked. It’s massive compared to our other washer, since the other one was just a countertop-sized washer and this one is a full-sized one that just rolls to the sink. It did everything without a problem (pans and all) and now everything’s clean and ready for dinner tonight. I messaged Eddie to ask him to pick up some taco or fajita kits for dinner tonight, and hopefully he’ll pick that up along with my monkey stuffing, which I forgot to ask about.
This heat is fucking awful. Right now I wish I was as small as Pickle so I could crawl into her cage and snuggle with a bottle of ice just like she’s doing right now. In another hour or so Eddie should be home and then I’ll have him move her cage into the man-cave where what meager AC we’ve got can work its magic.
Eddie tossed out an assload of crap from the spare room last night, piling it out in front of the house to be picked up with the trash this morning. Comrade came home from wherever crazy Polish men hang out on Saturday mornings at a little past noon, parked his van, and then proceeded to walk back out front to investigate the trash we’d put out. An hour or so later the trash is picked up, with the exception of a cardboard box full of tech manuals from when Eddie was in college 10 years ago, which I’m assuming they left for the recycling or in hopes that someone would drive by and pick it up. The garbagemen are hardly off our street when Comrade’s out there bringing in the solitary trashcan and pulling in the box of books. I’m not sure what he did with them after that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re outside our door.
My high school’s 10 year reunion was announced this week. I haven’t quite decided if I’m going, since the group of folks I hung out with really wasn’t the type that socialized with the majority of the people who will definitely been there, and I know I’ll spend the night explaining who I was to the folks who didn’t give a shit about who I was 10 years ago. However, being able to answer the questions like “So what have you been up to?” with “Well, I worked as the Easter Bunny for a couple of years, and did some work in the porn business. Not at the same time, of course, because that would just be wrong” would be worth it.
