Tuesday, August 11, 2009

My brother just pulled my hair...

...And his excuse: "I wasn't pulling it! Some of it just, um, got stuck between my two fingers!!!"
^^Exactly! :)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Heat Wave

I readily agree with accuweather.com when it says that it feels like it is 100 degrees. It's actually only 89, but it is still apparently the hottest weather we have had so far this summer. All that talk about how I wanted warmer summer weather, I take it all back! I love the rain; I would do a rain dance if I thought it would help. I have piled up my hair and stuffed it under a cap so it won't stick to my neck. Makes me feel kind of topheavy; 20+ inches of hair, even rather thin hair which requires gallons of volumizing shampoo and conditioner to keep it from being so thin that strands of it would be invisible to the naked eye, feels especially weighty when one is soaking in a pool of sweat. Days like this I almost feel jealous of guys, because their hair is already short and light and they can go around without their shirts. It makes me mad to see my brother parading around in only his underwear and shorts. In times past I have even bullied him into putting his shirt back on, just because it was annoying me that I couldn't go around without one too.
I feel like jumping into the creek, but on second thought that would probably not help since I bet it is almost boiling by now. And it is surrounded by poison ivy and supposedly according to my mom, lyme-disease-carrying ticks [I don't really blame her for being paranoid though, seeing as she has gotten lyme disease twice]. Seriously, come to think of it, the creek would be boiling if it were a hundred degrees Celsius rather than 100 degrees fahrenheit. Even though, to the chagrin of my Canadian friends, I have basically forgotten what I learned in chemistry last school year about converting temperatures, for some reason or other I still remember that 100 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which water boils. I wonder what temperature blood boils at? You know how blood has to be heated before they can inject it into people who need a blood transplant? Well I heard a story once about some people who tried to heat the blood in a microwave, and the person who got that blood died. Rather creepy... but it is a favorite anecdote of the people who believe microwaves are dangerous and life-threatening and possibly cancer-causing (of whom my mom is also one of, sort of :)
Okay, either I swallowed too much pool water yesterday or the heat is really getting to me. Or maybe it's the strange book I have been reading. At any rate, I had better quit typing before I spill out something really bizarre. Well, in parting, remember to stay hydrated and try to keep as cool as possible, which means you'll have to try even harder if you don't have air conditioning like we don't. Well, at least the giant fan is on now and buzzing its heart out loudly. My dad seems to be an expert in ventilation (or at least thinks he is), and has set up a system that coincides somehow with how the propellors on an airplane work (trust him for that!). The fan is so loud I can hardly hear myself think. So tata!!