"The wind is not supposed to go 100 miles per hour!"

But it's noooooooooot...

All this quake talk is making me nervous. The earth is not supposed to move under my feet.

Sweetie, the ground moves. It's a fact of SoCal living...

Yeah, that would be one of the only things about LA that is scary.

Though if this is the only thing you find scary about LA? Mazel tov!

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Right now, i get jealous of the east coast.

Me? Not so much. I don't miss the gross sticky humidity of New England summers, or the mosquitoes. I don't even wish for a/c more than about a week out of the year, when I move the fan into the bedroom and suffer nobly.

No earth-shakage here today, yay.

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I ran my two A/cs all day yesterday set at 76 (for 950 sq ft). Then I turned my bedroom one off at night and it stayed pretty cool. I also keep all the blinds pulled all day to keep out the sun and that helps a lot.

The kitchen is the only room taht gets really hot. It is furthest from the A/Cs, does not have blinds and gets afternoon sun. Add to that if you do any cooking and it gets pretty bad on these really hot days. I have a 2-way exhaust fan to install in the window and a ceiling fan. I hope that is enough. tonight I am gonna try to prepare some food with minimal cooking: gazpacho, cucumber soup, beans (in the crock pot), and some salmon.

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Right now, i get jealous of the east coast.

What Consuela said. Plus right now? Hurricane season.

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From my perspective this sounds pretty much exactly like:

"Water is not supposed to fall out of the sky!"

or

"The wind is not supposed to go 100 miles per hour!"

or

"What the hell is with the frozen water blotting out the landscape and clogging up the roads!"

No, sorry. All of those things are semi-predictable and avoidable. You cannot run and hide from an earthquake.

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We need a second A/C to put in the kitchen, so the apartment can be cooled from both ends. In our old place, we had the A/C in the bedroom, but in this place, the bedroom window overlooks the fire escape, so no dice.

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Puppy threw up on office rug. Puppy threw up on kitchen floor. Puppy threw up in back of car on way to vet.

My day is not starting well.

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{{{Kristin}}} {{{puppy}}}

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poor sick puppy and clean-up mom.

I opted to rip more CDs today. This can get addictive, but also kinda boring.

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We had an earthquake a couple weeks ago in the low 4.s. It woke me up (damn planet, grumbling at 6:35 am—pipe down!), but was only a mild shake that didn't overturn anything. I don't think you'd be able to feel a 2.4 unless you were right over the epicenter.

It did make me feel a little less secure about living on the edge of a bluff, though.

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