Is there such a thing as a "coldhouse flower"? Because that would be me.

Arctic flower? Himalayan flower?

Good news, good news! /roscoe p. coltrane I talked to my boss and she agreed that the task is not only ridiculous but wrong-headed - we need to restructure the whole blessed thing. So now I'm just breaking the bad news via email to the committee chairs and setting a meeting to discuss next steps. That and my monthly report, and I'm out of here. Hopefully by 7 pm, and hopefully one of the cookouts is still going on.

Poor Frankie is so bored.

Just got back from an afternoon at the community center pool, and am now kicked back drinking a strawberry lime Jones soda and considering a nap before dinner out with the folks.

Yeah I think in the 80's would be hard for me to get to sleep. Unless of course I'm outside with a breeze.

I am at uncle g's recovering from the heat while he and mac play video games. Mac liked all the things I bought him and I successfully hid 3 purchases in the shopping bag.

I set the one with a setting pretty low, but it and the other have to keep the whole house moderate. So right now, it is 79 downstairs and 77 up. And warmer in the kitchen.

It's great that you have a boss who recognizes that "ridiculous and wrong headed" is cause to stop doing something, smonster.

Is there such a thing as a "coldhouse flower"? Because that would be me.

Yeah, that sounds like me. I wandered around in the relatively nice 86F weather yesterday for a few hours, and today I feel vaguely hungover.

Just got back from seeing Toy Story 3, which was wonderful. Now going to hunker down, as I am having a sinus attack on one side of my head, the kind which hurts like a mofo and also made my eye all bloodshot for some reason. I have applied drugs and homemade zucchini bead and expect to feel better soon.

Scrappy, I'm watching your HammerHeads episode right now AIFG! You look lovely and your hair is gorgeous, and your DH is so darn cheerful I can't stand it. The blue on the house was pretty but I agree that the green looks better. Not done watching yet so I can't comment on the yard.

I have completely accepted that this first summer in Texas will be so uncomfortable for me I may need a fainting couch.

So, I'm reading scripts for a competition (not a script-reading competition. They're competing, not me). Anyway, I'm reading one, and it's interesting, and oh, hey, the two threads just kinda came together and then...ok, wait, she accused him of being Zeus (no, there are no other Greek gods in the thing), and then goes off to get shovels and it ends? What kind of an ending is that?

I mean, I like Primer as much as...ok, more than most people. I don't need tidy endings, and am down with mythology and symbolism, but, really, wtf, people? It feels like the end of act 1, rather than the end of the play.

Scrappy! Your yard is beautiful beyond belief! I love the whole Craftsman look, and the fencing and arch and deck and and and - wow. Just wow.