A Hot Mess

Posted on by Mandy

We’ve reached that point during the summer in the Mississippi Delta where it’s unmercifully hot. 100 degrees in the shade at 6 PM and the heat index is anywhere from 105-115 degrees. All you can do on those kinds of days is stay indoors, stay cool, and keep hydrated. Naturally, staying indoors and bonding with the air conditioner is not something anyone would have to beg me to do. However, just because I am forced to stay indoors most of the time now does not in any way mean I am not staying active and having a productive summer.

Lifting these? Totally counts as exercise, right?

tv remote

And these? Just keep jumping out of the freezer and into my mouth. Over and over.

ice cream sandwich

And one can never watch too many America’s Next Top Model reruns.

top model

Ditto for Beverly Hills 90210.  Which is a great thing, actually, because our cable TV stations didn’t pick this show up until it was in its 2nd or 3rd year, so I’m catching up on what I was deprived of in the early 90’s.

90210 brenda

So you see, I will not be deterred from enjoying my summer just because of a little heat.

And how is your summer?

Up All Night-Sleep All Day

Posted on by Mandy

fat lazy cat

Clyde (the white cat) has to wake me up at least twice during each night to be fed.  Why don’t I just shut the bedroom door?  Because when I do shut the door and lock it he throws his weight on it over and over so annoyingly that it’s just easier to give in and let him in. Also? When the door is only shut (but unlocked), he can even jump up and turn the knob.  I’m not kidding.

L.J. (the orange one) annoys Clyde when he is trying to sleep and generally keeps our home in an uproar half the night wanting to play.

But come morning time?  When I’m bleary-eyed and stumbling around trying to psyche myself up for a long day at work?  You can be sure these two will be sleeping like babies.  On MY bed.  I’ll even go so far as to say that their nocturnal habits are worse than a newborn!

Better be glad you’re cute!