Last week was a very long and hard week. I felt myself many times wanting to slip into hermit mode again. I fought ever urge not to and the days went by (badly) but I made it out. It mainly had to do with work, it just flat out sucked. Short staffed (new people do not count as real workers!) plus the whole state of Arizona escaped the heat by being a tourist here equals very grumpy baristas. That’s all I really want to say about that because rehashing it out wont help anything. Id rather stay in my happy place about work and stay there to get myself through the summer (aka Frappuccino hell).

Speaking of the heat, it was bad. Now, don’t yall down there in the south jump on me how hot it was there. I’ve been there, done that. I couldn’t believe the cry babies I share a state with last week. I would of liked to of shipped a handful of them to the sticky south so they’d understand truly what hot is. But for folks who pay good money for 70, ocean breeze weather year round, we did not get that last week. The main difference between my living places in the south and here is one thing: air conditioning. I lived through a hot Alabama summer only through having the air on all the time. My family does not live in a house with air, this fact I did not know till this summer. My mom just opens the windows and says “natural air conditioning”. Thus, adding to my bad week with it being so hot I couldn’t sleep, so I was tired or grumpy most of the time. Today its rather nice, bit warm but its summer, I expect warm just not hot.

On the shopping front (this seems to be a bit of a theme lately which I’m unsure if its good or bad) yesterday I was on the hunt for shorts. I own one pair. With summer camp quickly approaching I will need shorts, but for some reason only jeans to be on sale (ironically of course). In my hunt for shorts (I did fine one pair – brown) I ran across a really cute Kenneth Cole wallet. I have been looking mostly on eBay for a checkbook cover (my plastic one from the bank is falling apart) but all were too much for me to pay for a checkbook cover. I almost bought a cute Lily pattern one but I couldn’t bring myself to pay 7 bucks for it. So when I spotted this wallet (with checkbook cover) for only 10 bucks I couldn’t help myself. I’m not a Kenneth Cole girl by any means but its far too cute. I may have to name it and post a picture of it. Also, I ordered a make over for Marla, its in the mail and should be in with a few days. That was free, gift from my mom because she thought they were cute, and helps protect my laptop.

My projects today have to import most, if not all, my cds into iTunes. My that is a task. Since Pinkie is a mini iPod she can not hold all of my songs. Which is totally fine, I have just come to the point where I’m tired of dragging my cds around in my car or having to hide them so no one breaks into Hope to steal them. So I’m going to be investing in an iTrip soon probably. Just a reminder, I am not an apple girl, PCs all the way. Also, I have downloaded all of my transactions from my online bank statement into Quicken to make sure I haven’t missed anything over the past year. Can you believe I’ve been back in Ca a year? I cant really. But I feel such the geek girl having computer projects all afternoon. And tonight is the first meeting of the Starbucks bookclub, adding to my geekyness. I think it will just be my coworkers since we didn’t widely advertise it (our store is small so we don’t really want to) but that’s fine. It will give us a chance to talk books, discuss Rosie Dunn. I plan on wearing my “Reading is Sexy” shirt tonight to it. That doesn’t help my case does it?

Upcoming events: Caedmon’s show on Wed. I’m ditching youth group for this (shame shame). I’m not as excited as I was a year ago to see them. Basically, I don’t have high hopes, I’m going for old time sake and to met Casey. I think it will be a fun night if just to go to a concert which I haven’t done in quite a while. Jason and I are trying to plan a trip for him to come out here so we can decorate with the help of IKEA his new apartment. Very exciting. Bridget came today so a Bridget movie marathon might be in order. Oh I just saw Bride and Prejudge, wonderful biollywood movie cept I don’t like how Mr Darcy was casted. Ready for August to be over and September to come. Gilmore Girl reruns are gettin’ old.