I did finally get off my ass and did the minimal bit of research necessary to have the papers I need to register and title the swag wag tomorrow. I hope. You know how those things go. I will try to be there at the crack of eight when it opens. We shall see how much of my day it swallows.

It is nice and cool this evening too, and did not actually rain any more today, the first time since I've been home. It's still pretty floody out, though, because it's all runoff. If it doesn't rain tonight, we'll be able to get out to do business tomorrow.

But yes, windows open in the evening and all night, will close first thing in the morning in accordance with desert passive cooling principles. So nice to have that sweet desert breeze drifting through the windows.

I miss that so much about the desert. But I get to pretend here in the spring and fall, when that works pretty well most days. Summer, though, all bets are off. This July was brutal. I got off easy last year. OTOH, since switching to a different electric supplier, my bill last month still only $114. Last year was about the same, but I used 1.5 times more energy this month.

eta: Huh. Looking at my billing history...my expensive time isn't summer, it's gas in winter. For the Feb cold snap/blizzards, it was almost $300.

I may be a little crazy, but I really benefit mentally from that time doing laps where I just tune out. I might think a little bit, but I'm pretty much focussed on keeping count and improving my strokes and kicks.

Zen.

Oo, Jilli, I just so happen to be a UK size 12. meep meep

If you are looking for stripey blazers, you may want to stalk my LJ in a week or so.

Ow. Ow ow ow. So when I went dancing on Friday, I foolishly wore boots with traction-type soles. I caught one of my heels in the lowest ring of my hoop skirt, and suddenly sat down on the dance floor. My back is now letting me know that oh yes, something is out of whack.

OK, I finally saw The Dark Knight today.

The ending was noble and whatever, but why the hell did they have to pin the murders on Batman? The Joker and three countries worth of crime syndicates were killing people all over the place.

The insano heat is still here and will be for the foreseeable future. Some counties start school tomorrow in 95+ heat.

Having to take apart one bed to fix it led to my moving taking apart all the beds; switching the twin beds with the double bed; polishing the bedrooms' floors; and cleaning all the things. I still haven't put together one bed and most of the stuff I had to take out of the rooms to do that are scattered all over the house.

Mr Peabody hates the confusion. I had to move his food and he won't eat it in a strange place. He comes in, sees that "clean all the things" is still going on, and promptly turns around and goes back out.

Yeouch, Jilli. I hope it gets better soon. Love to hear the words "dance" and "hoop skirt" in the same sentence. Youse my kinda peoples.

Starting to rip all my CDs to my external HD in case I have to move to a place so small I can't even bring my de-jewelboxed CDs with me. Tedious and sad. On the good side, I'm able to be in the moment enough to sing along with Standard Ridgeway on "The Cannon Song".

Trying to ration out Diet Dr. Pepper spiked with Bacardi so that I feel nice, but not so tired I wanna go to bed.

CJ has one more week of freedom before school starts. I don't think I'm ready.

That's an early return to school. We don't go back until 9/13. Seriously.

In other news, my dad has been re-hospitalized. Did I mention he was hospitalized two weeks ago in WYOMING for heart problems? He got home to Ohio without too much issue and he went back into the hospital via the ER on Thursday, the day my mom got back from her 2 months away. Tomorrow AM they are doing something where they are trying to reset his heart. If this doesn't work he'll stay in the hospital until the anti-coagulents are out of his system so they can put in a pacemaker. Oy.

My poor mom.