The weather is hot, hot, hot. Look, not a hint of rain in the sky for over a week now.
To think that just before that, we were having major storms and some towns were flooded and there were massive traffic jams and stuff.
Right now, it says it’s 86 degrees on my computer but I say it feels more like 100 degrees because of the humidity.
Alrighty, I’m logging off now to do the rain dance 
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After breakfast with an old friend, she took me to view the house she’s planning to buy if the price is right.
It’s an old house with a big, old fire hydrant sitting just outside the fence. For some strange reason, she’s thrilled with this whole idea of the fire hydrant.
The house itself seems rather run down, and as for the fire hydrant, I just can’t see where the attraction lies.
Of course, I should’ve known. This friend of mine doesn’t do anything unless there’s a really good reason behind it.
Apparently that water hydrant, by its mere association with water, symbolizes wealth as is commonly believed in feng shui.
So does that mean that owners of houses without fire hydrants outside are doomed to a life of poverty? I jokingly asked my friend.
I’m inclined to think that merely having a faucet in (as opposed to the fire hydrant which is outside) my garden should be symbolic enough, no? And wouldn’t houses with swimming pools be much sought after then?
My car’s battery decided to go flat on me this morning just as I was about to leave for the gym. Duh!
What a drag, right? I’m just glad it didn’t die on me yesterday because it would’ve ruined my weekend. I had groceries to do, a birthday dinner to attend, so yeah…
I’m now waiting for the mechanic to show up with a new battery and get my car running again. I’m jumping up and down here because I’m going to be seriously late picking up my kids at school today. Grr!!
Yesterday, on my way back from dropping my son off at college, I stopped by my mechanic’s. I’ve had this red icon flashing on my dashboard since the day before and I wanted the mechanic to have a look at it.
Turns out I’m running low on engine oil and didn’t know it. Well, okay, I usually check and top up the battery water but I’m not consistent with checking the dip stick. So there you go.
He says good thing I brought it in early or I might run completely dry on engine oil and burn up my engine and run into thousands of dollars of repair. Yikes!
I’ve just noticed that clutter is building up quite heavily in my home office. Again. No matter how many times I try to clear it, stuff just starts accumulating again right away.
Granted I don’t clear it out as often as I should because it’s quite a hassle trying to get the recycling van to come back and pick up the stuff. These guys run the recycling van on a part-time basis so it’s hard to get a hold of them sometimes.
The last time I got the guys to come, I gave away a whole truckload, well, that was including an old TV and sofa which the guy told me he was taking home to use himself.
Until then, I’ve got a used cisco router, old modems and monitors, and a bunch of wires I can’t find a use for. The guys could probably make quite a few bucks out of recycling these.
Last weekend, DH sneaked out and came home with a Playstation 3. Now I’m not quite sure who he bought it for but one thing I know for sure is that my teens are not into these games.
They’ve got their own favorite online games which they much prefer. So I’m guessing he bought it for himself. Yep, I’m pretty sure of it. He even canceled his golf game to stay home and play 
. Funny guy!
What may not be so funny is that we’ve already got a heap of white elephants in the store room. He just likes to buy these big boys’ toys but he also abandons them pretty quickly.
I’ve been threatening to call in the moving services guys to cart them away. On second thought, I might just decide to auction them off on ebay or something and make a little spare change while I’m at it.
I’m seriously considering looking for a new mechanic. I’ve been going to my present mechanic for years. In fact, the guy is a friend of my dad’s so he’s like a family mechanic for us.
Yet his service seems to be getting from bad to worse. Each time I send my car in, it’s either that we have to wait endlessly for car parts or my car comes back with more problems. And that is seriously beginning to annoy me.
I really can’t be without the use of my car. My kids’ taxi runs have to go on, rain or shine. So I really can’t afford to be running back and forth half the time.
I don’t understand why they can’t just assign one person to fix the car from start to finish. Instead they have different people working on the car which, to me, is more likely to end up being sloppily done.
I met my neighbor for the first time after we’ve been living on the same street for the past ten years. Yes, strange, isn’t it? All these years, we’ve been waving and smiling at each other whenever we passed each other. But we’ve never spoken.
Like me, she’s always busy running Mom’s taxi. And so we’ve never had the chance to actually meet face to face. Until today, that is.
I was waiting for my kids to pile into the car and I waved as she was just driving by. Suddenly she slowed down, wound down her window and we started talking.
It was so cool. She’s such a nice lady but we only got to talk for a few minutes as she had to drop off her youngest son at school.
Over the years, I’ve seen her kids grow and heard about their academic achievements and football trophies from the other neighbors, and she too apparently knows a little about my kids.
I can’t wait for another opportunity to catch her and have another friendly chat. I feel like I know her just from having waved at her all this while. Ever felt this way about someone?
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that one of my favorite gripes is about our hot weather. I’m always complaining about not getting enough rain.
But lately I love how moody our weather has become, and I’m not even a fan of moody weather. But this moody is different. The alternating hours of sun and rain that we’ve been getting means we get at least some reprieve from the overbearing sun.
Before the rains came, I’d taken to wearing gloves, a hat and sunglasses every time I step out of my house!! And it’s never even been my childhood ambition to be a bag lady when I grew up.
Well, praise our TV repairman. He finally got our TV fixed and we’re able to watch the Olympics. Yes, we missed the first, what, ten, twelve days of it and now our TV’s back working. Aargh!
Never mind, the consolation is that we still get to watch the closing ceremony which won’t be as spectacular as the opening, I’m sure, but at least it’s better than nothing.
The kids have been glued to the TV ever since it came back. Swimming is their favorite event but that’s over now. I guess they just have to pick a new favorite.
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