4th day of summer

OMG - we are breaking records here.  I'm not much one for heat, so I already have a headache brewing... Not gonna talk myself into it, though.  Started my morning with lab work.  They changed up the system so that even though the lab opens at 8 and I was there around 8:10 I did not get seen until almost 9.  Maybe someone didn't come in on time... I don't know.  But add that to roads being paved, and I got in at 10:30 even though I had left my house before 8.  Sigh...  However, the upside is that, because I didn't have my full breakfast/beverages before leaving I made it in without wetting my pants... too much. LOL

I have my bag packed for a swim at the gym but the pool doesn't open until 5, and I think I want to head home immediately.  I didn't want to go at lunch since I got in so late.  I know... I know... already with the excuses and it's only Day 4.  But no, seriously - I'm dying to get home to my unairconditioned house so that I can slap wet towels on my arms and sit in front of the fan and bitch and moan how the night is so long and so hot.  Hmm... maybe I will rethink the gym.  Actually I would have gone this morning since I was up so early, but I had to hang around for the lab to open.  I might just go for a walk on the track - I don't even have to change for that and my iPod is all fired up!

Speaking of the iPod I want to do a commercial announcement for something I just bought: It's by URGE BASICS and it's called a Flash Tube Charger.  You charge it on your computer and it holds a charge so you can plug your dead devices into it.  It immediately zapped a charge into my iPod this morning (which was dead when I got to the lab, but fully charged by the time I got out).  I bought four of them to give as gifts this year, but I think I am keeping a second one for myself so I will always have one charged and handy. 

I have just a feeling of overwhelm lately, which is what started me on my summer projects - so much to do, so little time.  But it's more than that.  I have a yearning for a simpler time.  I was thinking back to my apartment in Brooklyn when my children were just babies.  Of course at THAT time I was overwhelmed with being a new mother, living on one income, hoping to move, etc., but as I look back now I see how simple those days were.  If I had known then what I know now about how delicious being a stay-at-home mom could be, I would have appreciated and enjoyed it even more than I did.  Of course, when I'm 80, and overwhelmed with whatever overwhelms 80-year olds I will look back to now and wish for the simpler times of today! LOL  I don't know... I'm not exactly in a funk, but I feel like I am free-floating with no idea where to land. 

I think this is, in part, what motivated me to do summer projects...   I want the simple times of summer... Again with the doing instead of being.  Oh I've got it ... maybe on the way home I will swing by Walden Pond and just hang out there for a while -maybe being there will help me contemplate more than my belly button.   I just called and they are at capacity for the day but will reopen at 4PM.

I have my bathing suit, flip flops and towel with me anyway ... I've got a plan!!!!

Miriam