... where there wasn't any before.

( Warning: extreme Trekkie geekiness under the cut! )

... happened without me. I had already selected and ordered the required musical sheets, but when I saw the weather forecast - 34-36 degrees - I decided to skip practice. It starts at 4.30pm, when the heat is the worst, and I simply found it suicidal to leave the house when I don't absolutely need it ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, just_jenni! I hope it was a nice, peaceful day, despite everything life has been throwing at you lately. *hugs*


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I'd be happy to gift about 10 degrees of our temperatures on any volunteers. We're having 34°C again, and things are getting unbearable. We both had to lie down and sleep a bit both in the late morning and in the early afternoon, just to survive.

Today I had to cook; a very simple thing, Topfenknödel, but after the roughly 35 minutes it took I had ( Read more... )

I had to get up at 6.30am to get the grocery shopping done while it wasn't quite as hot yet. I left at 21 degrees and got home less than an hour later at 26 - which doesn't sound much, but hauling the shopping bags home while the sun burned in my back was no fun ( Read more... )

I had a lazy day, trying to recover after the frigging cleaning. Slept until 8am, and the only actual work I did today was helping Mum to wash her hair. I did quite a bit of writing - clearly, the muse bears the heat better than I - had a nap in the afternoon, watched some crap telly and talked to my friend Evie in the evening. And that was ( Read more... )

She'd be 124 today - if we were Vulcans. Since we are not, she's left us back in 1996, at the age of 96. Yes, she was born in 1900; that always made keeping track of her age so easy ( Read more... )

... because tomorrow I'll have to do the last leg of the cleaning-on-my-own and won't be able to do anything else afterwards than drop to the floor and try to breathe ( Read more... )

It is still hot; well, actually, we are expecting some heavy rain, which means we can't leave the windows wide open... right now when it's getting a bit cooler. Annoying ( Read more... )

... is still going on. We do what we can in the morning, close the blinds and the windows around 10am and sit in complete darkness until 8pm. Everything else that has to be done gets done by artificial light. Around 2pm I'm completely drained and have to lie down and sleep an hour or two. Then I amble around in the flat, change clothing, hang up ( Read more... )