{"id":147,"date":"2005-05-09T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=147"},"modified":"2005-05-09T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T00:13:00","slug":"summertime-and-the-living-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/05\/09\/summertime-and-the-living-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime.. and the living isn&#8217;t easy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not cut out for heat. I&#8217;ve had the AC going since March when the weather began warming up because I can&#8217;t stand being hot in the slightest. Neither can the kidlet. It&#8217;s so uncomfortable. Clothes stick to your skin by a thin sheen of sweat and merely walking from the living room to the bedroom requires a stop in the bathroom to splash a bit of cold water on the face. I hate it.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because our ancient AC has become frozen again as it does from time to time. This means I have to shut it off and let it thaw for several hours. in the meantime the house becomes stifling hot &#8211; the kind of hot that makes you long for the deep-freeze of early January even if you do have to scrape the car windows.<\/p>\n<p>So Shan and I are baking and trying not to think about it. Hopefully I can turn it back on before bed because the only thing worse than being awake and uncomfortably hot is trying to sleep while uncomfortably hot.<\/p>\n<p>I hate this apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, had a nice weekend again, nothing as exciting as a weekend away, but I got to introduce Shan to Gone With the Wind, which she enjoyed. I also was awakened very early Sunday morning by Shan and for a moment I thought she was sick. Fortunately she wasjust coming in with a lovely breakfast she had prepared for Mother&#8217;s Day \ud83d\ude42 She dragged herself out of bed at 6:15am on a Sunday to scramble some eggs and cook some toast and brew some Chamonile tea for me.<\/p>\n<p>Awwwwwwwwwww \ud83d\ude42 She&#8217;s so cool.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday I&#8217;d taken her out to Fonner park to practice her parking skills. We&#8217;ve discovered she isn&#8217;t very confident parking the car so we&#8217;re going to work on that until she&#8217;s got it nailed. We&#8217;re slowly building up her confidence and her skills so that driver&#8217;s ed and the big test won&#8217;t be a huge shock like it was for me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I&#8217;d driven a little bit before I took my test. My dad painstakingly and patiently taught me how to drive in his beloved Honda Accord (a stick I might add) in the empty parking lots around my high school. But that was after I was cruelly tossed behind the wheel in class and told to drive along Highway 1 in Pacific Grove. A road so precarious and scary I&#8217;m still afraid of it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get a lot of time to become confident behind the wheel, which might explain the 6 attempts I made at parallel parking during my test \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my baby behind the wheel *sniffle*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/gallery\/Sweetiepete\/Behindthewheel3rdtime\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/albums\/Sweetiepete\/Behindthewheel3rdtime.thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/gallery\/Sweetiepete\/Behindthewheel3rdtime2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/albums\/Sweetiepete\/Behindthewheel3rdtime2.thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not cut out for heat. I&#8217;ve had the AC going since March when the weather began warming up because I can&#8217;t stand being hot in the slightest. 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