Thoughts About This Week
In no particular order:
- I have required two cold showers a day every day this week, because it is hot here; so hot I don’t even want to use a tired metaphor involving hell to describe it. Oh yeah, we don’t have air-conditioning, and we live in a 100-year-old house without insulation. So I’m also not sleeping at night…
- Other ways to stay cool: standing in front of the open freezer, putting my face directly in front of the fan we have propped in the window, driving around with the air-conditioning on, eating popsicles, drinking a metric fuck-ton of ice water each day. Sorry for the cussing, I’m not sleeping.
- Life of Pi is an amazing movie and I wept pretty much throughout the entire thing because of hormones and the fragility of mortality and giant cats.
- Running into garden spider webs has become a daily occurrence, yet it still remains as unpleasant as ever.
- I am scared about the future of our country.
- I shouldn’t be allowed to hit “publish” when I’m feeling depressed.
- I have made it a point to do something different everyday to prevent early onset job-search dementia. Going to the beach for an hour, talking to new people, looking for an album for our wedding photos (two years after said wedding date), going to the library to check out a book someone recommended; sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t, but at least my butt hasn’t permanently adhered to my office chair.
- My adult-onset, allergy-induced asthma has gotten a lot worse this week. I blame it on the heat and the garden spiders, because they’re convenient scapegoats.
- Baking bread is not a good way to cool off, but it sure yields delicious results.
- I mowed the lawn for the first time in my entire life.
- Syria: what a mess. Don’t do it, America!
- Cover letters are torture devices from the pit of hell designed to make employers’ work easier, and the unemployed want to rip their fingernails out individually each time they have to use the words “energetic” and “accomplished” and “go-getter” to describe themselves.
- Dexter and Breaking Bad are ending soon, FOREVER, and it’s interfering with my will to live.
- Books are saving my sanity, and my cat is driving me crazy with her absenteeism. Go figure.
Happy Labor Dabor!
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39 Comments
Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife
It’s hot, I agree. We don’t have AC either. Too hot to go outside too. Yuck.
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Natalie DeYoung
Double yuck. If I had any money, I’d hang out at the mall, where there’s at least air-conditioning…
Kristin
Ahhh! I just ran into a garden spider web merely five minutes ago. It felt personal. And way to take me back to Homestar Runner. You go girl!
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Natalie DeYoung
I’m very impressed you’re familiar with Homestar Runner… 😉
And you’re right. It’s personal with garden spiders.
Shmoo Radley
We don’t have AC either. I keep ice packs in the freezer for when it gets crazy-hot. We just hold them to our chests, or put them behind our backs on the couch. I’ve even put them in the bed for a half hour or so to cool it off. Fairly effective. Pretty useless against spiders though.
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Natalie DeYoung
Taking notes on the ice packs…
Considerer
Glad you’re finding things to do. Hope you can get some decent antihistamines for the allergies (if they help)
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Natalie DeYoung
So far NOTHING WORKS. Sniff. I’ll keep trying, though…
Considerer
What a pain in the ass 🙁 Have you looked into immunotherapy? It looks pretty good, but also costa lotta dolla :/
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Natalie DeYoung
I have looked into it, but life got in the way before I could fully commit to the process…
Ellen
Strongbad! My boss at my previous job had a sound file of Strongbad saying, “Oooh, electronic mail!” as the sound his computer made every time a new message came in.
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Natalie DeYoung
Ha! How fun! Maybe slightly annoying, too, but still fun!
Chris plumb
I hate cover letters, query letters, intro letters, resumes, and any formal writing assignment that promotes brevity + outlandish bragging. If I’m going to talk about myself, I need eight pages minimum.
I don’t know what it is about spiders, but I have been killing armies of em for my family of girls lately. On the positive side, they appear not to fear snakes, though. 1 out of 2 phobias ain’t bad.
Great bullet point post. Lol’ed throughout. (I’ve never said lol’ed before).
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Natalie DeYoung
I needed a bullet list. They make me feel better.
And you’re such a good husband. Mine makes me kill all the spiders. I suspect it’s punishment for something I didn’t do.
Pinky Poinker
We’ve had our air conditioner on here and it’s still allegedly Winter at 29C. Can’t wait for summer… not.
I feel your pain 🙂
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Natalie DeYoung
Ugh, awful! And I’m impressed I remember my Celsius temperature scale to know that 29C is pretty frickin hot.
Vanessa D.
I hate hate hate writing cover letters.
When I was pregnant with my second and had no A/C, I used to take my nightgowns right from the washer and wear them to bed.
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Natalie DeYoung
That doesn’t sound like a bad idea…
And cover letters are evil bullshit.
Natalie DeYoung
Ugh, awful! And I’m impressed I remember my Celsius temperature scale to know that 29C is pretty frickin hot.
This Mom Said It!
Let us know when you start imagining a Paradise Oasis from the heat and we will send help…or at least ice…
I also would like to admit that I have never mowed the lawn in my life.
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Natalie DeYoung
I never thought I would have to, either. :/
And I’m pretty strong. I’ll probably hold out another week before the hallucinations kick in…
Michelle Longo
I hope you find something soon and that the heat breaks. I hate heat.
And I’m so bummed about Breaking Bad ending because I think it’s probably the best show on right now. I’m going to politely disagree about Dexter – I’m sort of glad that one is ending, though I’m seeing it through to the end because I’ve come this far.
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Natalie DeYoung
I get what you’re saying about Dexter; it needs to end. I’m still sad though, because it’s the end of an era for me…
Lovelyn
Cover letters were invented by the devil to torture us all. I state that like it’s fact when actually it’s my opinion, my very strong opinion.
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Natalie DeYoung
In my book, it is also fact.
Suzanne
I run into garden spiderwebs every day too, usually on the way to throw out dog poo, just to add insult to injury as I realize I am at the whim of four-legged and eight-legged creatures…
Life of Pi. I read the book before I saw the movie, just so I would know what happened to Richard Parker. The idea was to mitigate the bawling in public. But I cried anyway.
Oh, and you should watch Luther. It’s a British TV show. It might give you back your will to live. 😉
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Natalie DeYoung
Ick. Creatures.
I know, I was weeping out of control at the end.
Luther? Hadn’t head of it, but will look into it, because I need more reasons to keep on truckin’…
Ericamos
Cover letters are totally torture devices!!
And thanks for the Strong Bad…I needed a good laugh.
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Natalie DeYoung
I had forgotten about him, until I tried to remember where I got the phrase “Labor Dabor” from…
zoe
love the bullets…agree about the country and am also frightened … Not a good thing to look at when youre bummed about work , heat and spiders….
Natalie DeYoung
I know. It feels kind of apocalyptic right now.
Pam
I am impressed you are doing something different every day. That takes a lot of motivation and discipline. Also: have you tried sleeping with a damp washcloth on your neck and forehead?
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Natalie DeYoung
No, but good idea!
Kristin
I JUST watched Life of Pi on HBO (which we had FREE for August! Woot!) — loved it.
And the first several lines totally have me thinking about Do The Right Thing. You used all the methods that Rosie used. Well done!
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Natalie DeYoung
So good! And I had to get the ideas from somewhere… 😉
Marcy
That heat sounds brutal. Hang in there.
I have been hooked on Breaking Bad more than any other series in the history of the world–can’t believe it’s ending!
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Natalie DeYoung
I know. *sniff*
Samantha Brinn Merel
Cover letters are the root of all that is evil.
No A/C? You definitely deserve a medal.
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Natalie DeYoung
Agree, on both statements. 🙂