omygoditsfreezing
A nice cold front came through the Utah Valley on Saturday, and Ben and I celebrated with a big hip-hip-hurrah! It's Fall! It's also been cloudy all weekend and raining on and off, which is weird. We were (are?) in a drought throughout the summer with the hottest, dryest July on record... many days topped 100 degrees (F). That reminded me of the summer I spent studying near Madrid, when the local thermometers touched 40 degrees Celsius and the apartment where I was living with an older couple and another American student didn't have air conditioning I said "Never again." Well, I haven't been to Spain since, but I didn't expect Spain heat in Utah. At least we have air conditioning.
Weather? Who cares about weather! Talk about something else.
Like how I went to a summer camp in Dayton, Ohio when I was fifteen and met a girl who desperately wanted to be a meteorologist. At the same time, our early-eighties TV at home only went up to channel 39, which incidentally was the Weather Channel. I learned early on in life that the Weather Channel was a much better predictor of a snow day than the local weather. But the local news is what I had to watch at butt-ass-early-o-clock in the morning to see if my school was closed. Hooray for Northeastern Ohio Lake Effect snow!
I think the point of all this is that I woke up shivering, since we'd left a couple windows cracked for fresh air as we cleaned all day yesterday (with some impressive results late in the game).
There's still a lot more cleaning and organizing to be done, but maybe now that the kitchen/dining room/living room area is tidy and clean (like with real all-purpose cleaner and everything) the rest of the house will be easier to maintain. Ben is still working on the family room in the basement... I'd say that nearly half of that is clean. The rest is Ben's personal disaster area, but he's taken his precious time away from the last throes of fantasy baseball and even turned off the attention-demanding sights and sounds of Harvery Birdman Volume 1 on DVD ("Why watch it for free when you could pay for it?" as the insert says).
I am hoping that Ben and I can keep the place clean (if not cleaner) through the holidays. I want to have people over (a small gathering of friends, not a "party", Ben, even though you're turning <censored> this year) around our October birthdays. Then my aunt and uncle are coming to visit at the end of October, and then we'll probably be taking a trip home to NE Ohio to visit various parental units and other relatives and someone will probably have to come in to make sure that the cats haven't eaten each other, and then it's already Thanksgiving time and then Christmas and then holy shit 2008.
Wow, is it really Fall already?
