Muy Caliente

[sakon76]

During what is probably the hottest birthday weekend I've experienced in decades, today it hit 93 degrees inside the house. Wonderful Husband and I are drinking lots of liquid (particularly me, as while I am looking forward to Squiddle being an external rather than internal phenomenon, I do not particularly want to share my birthday), sitting under fans, and taking the housework we intended to get done this weekend slowly, bit by bit. And ducking into the shower for a cool rinse-off whenever our sweat tolerances become exceeded.

(Yes, whine whine whine first world problems. This is still the reason we are agreed that we will never move further inland, no matter how cheap housing is in Riverside or Temecula.)

Birthday dinner was at Lucille's. Yummy! Every time we go there, I order a half-plate of fried okra. And every time, I have to remind myself that no, I don't want to grow okra next year. If nothing else, I lack a deep fryer. And I'm not going to get one, either, because that's a slippery slope that leads inevitably to deep-fried Twinkies and other county fair food.

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[tainry.livejournal.com]

Erlack! I remember a few days up at Humboldt when the temp spiked into the nineties one October. And no one up there has A/C either. Blerargh. I didn't have statistics class that week though because the computers all crashed from the heat. \o/