Heat-generated crankiness
I’m just gonna flow with the crankiness right now. So I saw on the accuweather site that yesterday’s high was 97. I put this in the comments in the last post. The average high for yesterday was 71. That’s 26 degrees higher than normal. Let’s say the average high for Dallas, is oh, 94 degrees. Add 26 to that norm and you get FREAKING HOT. So think of it that way.
Luckily for us, we come from a place that is used to freakishly, hellishly hot summers. Yesterday we ran some errands - to the air-conditioned Bed Bath and Beyond to return some pillowcases and pick up a fan (except they were all out of fans) and to Trader Joe’s for groceries. City Car Share cars have AIR CONDITIONERS. Have I mentioned I love Trader Joe’s? And that it’s air-conditioned? We then came by the house to drop off the groceries and pack a picnic to take to Dolores Park. We left there at 8:30 and came home. Joshua and I watched Down By Law after Judah went to bed. Great cinematography, but a slow script, poor acting and cliched dialogue delivery. It’s like watching a high school play - you want it to be good, but mostly it just hurts a little bit. Roberto Benigni was easily the best actor in the flick. Big surprise.
Today, the San Francisco Symphony had a free concert in Dolores Park at 2. So we packed up a wicked cool picnic lunch (Italian bread, smoked salmon, pesto, spinach dip, hummus, goat cheese, a blue cheese, a brie-like cheese,, crackers, yogurt, watermelon, grapes, sparkling cranberry, swiss chocolate bars - I might have to eat that for dinner too), extra pillows for mommy, and headed over early. That last uphill block kicked my ass. We were joking that if I want to induce labor I should just walk to Dolores Park every day pushing a stroller laden with picnic gear. We stuck around til about 3:30, when the shade no longer was on our side of the tree. I definitely don’t want a sunburn while it’s this hot out there. We went to Ritual for a bit, trying to prolong our trip home, but it was just as hot and stuffy there, so we came home and all got in a cold shower. It was like our own personal water park. I’m now laying on the hot sheets in our hot bedroom with a fan blowing hot air on me, water by my side, and an ice pack down my pants, trying to think cool thoughts.
Mark Twain was dead wrong.
I’m less cranky now than I was earlier.
July 23rd, 2006 at 5:51 pm
dang dude. you guys are jammed with the goods for the picnic. makes me wanna eat it all. im glad you all can get out. that is really nice. it’s so hard for us to get out. it’s like warzone sometimes.
July 24th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Mark Twain wasn’t wrong, SF just has a freakishly cold “Indian Summer” (just wait until September… you can practically snow ski down Lombard).
July 24th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
I remember when we moved to MN and though the “We have cold Air Conditioning” signs were just deco. Then the hot days hit, and we went everywhere that had those signs. No AC in your living space is hot, and I wasn’t pregnant. I feel for you. Maybe you will go into labor and enjoy the AC in the birth center. The birth center does have AC. Doesn’t it?
July 27th, 2006 at 11:39 am
this is an interesting topic, i don’t know how many people, in christian circles, debate the fact of stem cell research or when does “life” begin. i don’t think i have a strong opinion in either direction, but sometimes find myself not believing the” life at conception” view. does the human soul sit in a petri dish frozen until the end of time? I don’t know. Regardless of this fact, i don’t really know what to do with all these embryos. Can we still use them inside of trashing them, or should we even allow parents or doctors to dispose of these little beings. I can’t say what the point of this is really but the fact that i do not know where to put my belief. Is using fertility clinics bibilica? I mean they are implanting numerous embryos, life, in hopes that one will attatch. Is that killing a life, or just scientific miscarriage?
I have been talking about the value of life as christians should see it. I told another christian that I was anti death penalty and he tried to tell me that christ’s death was the ultimate death penalty, so why did i not agree with that form of punishment. I was kind of floored because I thought christ death abolished the death penalty. Ofcourse with the amount of people i have murdered in my mind, i probably should have been executed when i was in my early adolesence.
July 27th, 2006 at 11:56 am
sorry, i clicked on the wrong comment link,… this has nothing to do with weather, or does it?. anyway sorry.