Okay, so please tell me I’m not alone in wishing for some damn sweater weather, or at least weather where being outside for longer than it takes to get into your car doesn’t leave you drenched in sweat. I know I live in Florida and we pretty much only have 4 days a year where it’s actually what most would consider to be cold, but this is ridiculous. I’m so over the damn oppressive heat. I was attempting to work on some furniture projects in my garage, but after only ten minutes of just breathing out there, I seemed to have lost my body weight in sweat, so back into the a/c I went to rehydrate and couldn’t seem to talk myself into venturing back out into the oven like conditions in order to get anything done (I was a total wuss today). It doesn’t help that there is pumpkin spice everything being thrown in my face, making me believe that it should be more fall like. Instead here in the sunshine state it feels like we are solidly stuck in the throws of the hottest part of summer with no end of the heat in sight. I know, I’m being a baby right now, which is unlike me. Normally I save the whining to those 4 cold days when I’m crying about how I miss the sand and the beach and the heat, but honestly, summer has been hanging around long enough and this girl didn’t get to enjoy the beach at all this year and would just rather fast forward to the cooler months so I can make myself venture out into the woods. Hell, at this point I would take mid 80’s as the high temp for the day. I can’t blame it all on the pumpkin spice craze that’s swept every grocery store, coffee house and bakery across the lands. I also got a tad excited and have already put out all my Halloween décor around house, so I guess my lack of acceptance for these higher temps is in part attributed to the festive atmosphere in the house. Pumpkins and bats and skeletons should remain packed away until either the local highs are at least below 87 degrees, or we have entered the calendar month of October (since there is no guarantee that we won’t be in the 90’s even by December around here). Anyway, I have a vase full of flowers with creepy eyeballs, a tiny dead tree donned with bat lights and multicolored skeletons on my window to soothe my sweat drenched heart whenever I get down about the weather, so I guess I’ll survive. Pumpkins (the plastic kind since I know better than to purchase the real kind this early in the season) decorate most of the flat surfaces around the house. The dog costumes have been pulled out and put on the pups to entertain the humans and freak out the four legged residents here. Yeah, I guess it’s not all bad being trapped indoors by the sweatbox like conditions when you walk out the door. Anyway, hope you’re slurping down gallons of pumpkin spiced beverages in the cool air of the a/c … I know I sure am.
Currently listening to Cringe (Stripped version) by Matt Maeson
