Father’s Day was two days ago. I had intended to write a post about my dad in honor of the holiday, but I didn’t get around to it. I’m such a slacker. I will write that post one of these days, but not today. I want it to be good, and I just don’t have the time to put into it right now.
I was too broke to buy Hubby anything. But I didn’t feel too bad, because he was too broke to buy me anything for Mother’s Day. I just tried to be extra good to him and make sure he had a nice, relaxing day.
Our anniversary is coming up next month, and I’m hoping I’ll at least be able to get him a little something. Maybe I could get him a Personal Creations keychain with our names and anniversary date engraved on it. They’re really pretty and not too expensive. And with one of those, he’ll be forced to think about me every time he starts his truck. 
Well, I got up early so I could get some articles written and some clothes washed, not so I could sit here and blog. So I’d better get to it. Later!
Pumpkin has been complaining because the TV in her room was so small. I don’t really know why it matters, because she only watches it when she goes to bed to help her get to sleep. But Hubby got a call the other day from his brother, who said he had a larger TV he would sell for $5.
He went to look at it, and it played very well, so he bought it. Pumpkin had gone to Bible school with a neighbor, so we just switched it out and didn’t say anything about it. When she got home and saw it, she was a very happy camper.
The brother-in-law called back today, saying he had some more TVs he wanted to get rid of. I asked Hubby if he had robbed a TV truck. But apparently another relative had gotten them from a local loan company for next to nothing, and he had sold them to him for not much more than that.
Hubby is supposed to go look at them tomorrow. I don’t know if he has anything other than TVs or not. It would be nice if he would bring a cell booster home, or maybe a Wii. But I guess that’s just wishful thinking.
The weather has been very nice here for the past couple of weeks. Probably too nice, really. Temperatures have been in the mid to upper 80s, which is highly unusual in early June. And we hadn’t had any rain until today, when it rained hard for about 15 minutes, and then the sun popped out again.
I’m a big fan of warm weather, but it gets pretty unbearable indoors when you don’t have air conditioning. So I do what I can to keep cool. I keep the blinds down and run fans from the time I get up until I go to bed (besides the ones in the bedrooms, which run all night).
I have long and fairly thick hair, which can be a real pain when temperatures rise. But I’ve found a way to use it to my advantage. I take a shower when it starts getting hot in the house and wash my hair. Once I’m out and dressed, I put my hair up in something similar to a French twist. But instead of tucking the ends in, I leave them loose. I secure it with a hair clip that’s flat on the bottom (because the rounded ones always flop to the side and bug me to death).
This hairstyle is simple, attractive, and works out very nicely on hot days. Twisting my hair up like that makes it stay wet instead of air drying, which keeps my head cooler than it would be otherwise. And it helps that my hair isn’t laying on my neck, too.
I can leave my hair up all day, and when I take it down before I go to bed, it’s still very damp. So I guess that explains the excellent cooling effect. For those of you out there with long, thick hair, maybe this little tip will help you find some relief from the heat.
My brain could certainly use a motivational poke. I had been getting up fairly early (well, for me anyway) since Pumpkin got out of school. But today I woke up late, and a couple hours later I still haven’t truly woken up. My brain is not being cooperative at all today.
Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t just take the easy way out and marry one of the top Texas business lawyers so I wouldn’t have to worry about working and making money. But then I remember that I married for love, not money. What was I thinking??? (Hubby, if you see this, I hope you know that I’m just kidding and wouldn’t trade you for all the money in the world!)
I thought I was finally going to get myself on a normal schedule since I’ve been able to go to bed at a decent time and actually go to sleep lately. But if things continue this way, I guess I’ll have to go back to staying up late and working. I’m more productive late at night, and since Pumpkin is out of school, I won’t have to worry about getting up early. So even if my insomnia comes back and I don’t get to sleep until 4:00 in the morning, I’ll be able to sleep in. Maybe I can make it through the summer that way.
Pumpkin has two jars full of change, one of pennies and one of white change. We really need to get some coin rolls and roll it all up to take to the bank.
We’ve all been contributing to her little fund. Hubby is always emptying his pockets in there, and I always put what I find in there when I’m cleaning. I accidentally put a couple of Hubby’s silver dollars in there once, but he figured it out pretty quickly.
Once we take it to the bank and get cash for it, I guess Pumpkin can buy herself something. We really haven’t designated a purpose for it, although I’m thinking about making her put a portion of it into savings. It would be nice to start a college fund for her, because that’s something we haven’t been able to do yet.
I should really be doing what my parents did when I was in school. They put change into one of those huge pickle jars and saved it from the time my older brother graduated until I graduated, then started a bank account for me with it. I ended up with several hundred bucks, and it helped me learn how to manage money. I kind of forgot how somewhere along the way, though. But I’m hoping that Pumpkin will be much more responsible than I was.
I came to the realization not too long ago that most of Pumpkin’s shorts she wore last summer will no longer fit. This constant growing is one of the few things I’m looking forward to changing in the next few years. The rest of the preteen/teenager stuff, for the most part, I could do without.
Anyway, I guess I’m going to have to shop for some new ones for her. Locally, we don’t really have many options when it comes to shopping for clothing. So I’ll be looking online. I may check out Target.com, since I’ve had luck finding stuff that fits her well there in the past. (There’s’ no Target close by here.) They’ve got some Target coupons at dropdowndeals that I could use to save some money if I order from there, too.
She could use some more t-shirts, too, so maybe I’ll see if they have any good deals on those as well. Heck, I might even find something for me. I could always use some new clothes.
It has been insanely hot here in the mountains for the past week or two. It was in the upper 80s for several days, and then it cooled down to the lower 80s and seems to be stuck there. I’ll take this kind of weather over freezing cold any day, but it takes some getting used to.
I’ve still been pretty stressed out, and have had a hard time getting myself in front of the computer at times. And when I have been able to make myself write, and I’ve gone back to proofread, I’ve found myself wondering what kind of drugs I was on when I wrote stuff. I’m not as careful about proofreading my blog posts here as I am about proofing work for others, so it’s probably more noticeable here. So if there have been times when I’ve made absolutely no sense, sorry about that!
I suppose I could chalk my unusually bad mental issues up to the heat. It seems to be affecting others around here, so that might actually be somewhat believable. For example, I went to the grocery store today, and for once there weren’t huge lines at the checkouts. But I just happened to get in line behind some guy who refused to believe that he couldn’t buy his muscle supplements of choice there. It took the cashier forever to convince him that they didn’t have them and that he should try ordering them online. Sheesh!
I should be accustomed to this weather by the end of next week, because according to the forecast it’s going to stay the same for at least that long. Then maybe I can get myself back on track. I can hope, anyway.
