So much for September

[halfshellvenus]

What a weekend. I wound up in a 6-person writeoff after last week's Idol poll, so I spent Friday and a lot of Saturday writing an entry for that. Humor! Always fun when I can get it to happen. Please take a look and vote for me if you can. I need all the votes I can get!

I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a review merged for something I've been stuck on for about... 2 months? I needed help from another team to get our feature to work, and it took awhile until they were available to help. Merged! I can breathe now! And go on to the next overdue thing. \o?

I researched and specified a bunch of stuff for the house, and the project manager turned it around and put it up for approval, so we made a lot of progress there. We might actually meet the end-of-October move-in date. *bites nails* Now I'm starting to worry about having to MINIMALLY replace our mattress/boxsprings, probably at least one sofa, and the rug under the piano before our surviving stuff gets delivered to the house. I mean, both sofas were declared fire losses, but we could get by with one for awhile. Anything upholstered won't have survived, obviously (smoke fumes & toxins). Other things? It's iffy. I canNOT get a straight answer from the restoration people about kitchen stuff. Keepsakes I cleaned from the kitchen took a LOT of work to get the smoke smut off. Will we ever be able to safely eat anything using our dishes & silverware? What about the cookware? I have the feeling we'll be replacing a LOT of that. :(

Wild and not-so-wild life: I saw something on the bike path Friday that was a first-- a Siamese cat in a bike basket! I would be so afraid a cat would jump out while the bike was moving. Conversely, HalfshellHusband swears that a little cottontail bunny came up and looked in the living room window on Saturday. That surprises me. At best, it's a third of a mile to the parkway from here, and that's a long way for a little bunny to hop!

So, 101^o temps again starting tomorrow. How's your weather? I'm hoping none of you had hurricane damage. :(

Comments

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you so much! I had fun writing that one. :D

Wild life is all around us. :-)
Well, some of us are feeding the wildlife and making sure of it. ;) :D

I am so tired of this heat. SO tired. Nothing says "October" like 101-degree temperatures. \o?

[murielle]

Guilty as charged. Though not as much anymore. If they come begging my frustrated maternal instinct takes over and I totally cave--and they know it.

101 Degrees! I'd need an ambulance or a fire hydrant. Fall is coming, fall is coming... We're going up to the mid 20s again next week. I don't think anyone told the weather that fall is coming. :-(

[halfshellvenus]

I swear that little animals know they're cute, and that we're susceptible to it. Once, at Yosemite, we had a bunch of squirrels show up where people rested on benches mid-hike. The one next to us stood up on its hind legs to "beg" for us, which immediately overrode our resolve not to feed it. ;)