This is the week from hell, but thank God this is the only truly awful week this summer. I've got 4 kids going 5 different directions this week and only one of me to drive them. Take #2 son to summer school at the community college campus 15 miles away, while I'm gone neighbor across the street takes #3 son to band camp, hurry home to take #1 son to aviation camp, leave #4 son home alone while I go clean my neighbor's house, hurry home to take #4 son to music lesson, while he's there pick up #2 son, then pick up #4 son on way home, stuff food down #2 son and take him to other summer school class at other community college campus, thankfully the close one that he can walk home from, then I have 1.5 hours to stuff food down me and do everything that needs to be done for day, go pick up #1 son, shop for dinner fixings, go pick up #3 son, make dinner and collapse.

On top of that the only air conditioner in my ~2000 sq ft house is a little tiny window unit in the dining room and it's the hottest summer we've had in years, and it's already 75 out and heading for 95, yuck! If I wanted weather like this I'd have stayed in Texas. I guess the good news is that I grew up in a house without air conditioning so I know how to deal with it... the windows are open, exhaust fans have been running on both floors all night, and it's definitely cooling down the house. Once it hits about 77 outside I'll turn off the fans, close all the windows, pull the shades and turn on the bitty air conditioner with fans to blow cool air around the main level of the house (which is fairly open), close the basement door so all the cool-ish air doesn't flow down the stairs, and it'll stay reasonable (80-ish) in here, then repeat, because tomorrow is supposed to be just as bad with no break in sight. Not fun.

But the good news is that I feel like I have a brain again, instead of a pile of mush, and I got a bunch of stuff done yesterday instead of wallowing in novels like I did last week. My desk is cleaner than it has been in quite a while, a bunch of little things are off my mind and I feel like I actually have brain enough to do more today. YAH!!

So I'd best get to it. :-)