Thursday, July 15, 2010

"Cold Blooded Critters and Heat Wave Haters.........."

Good Evening;

I am totally fed up with this stupid weather, another 2,(two), weeks of 90+ degree temperatures are forecast. 93 degrees today with a dew point in the 70's means a heat index of 99 degrees. It really sucks taking a shower then having to head back out into the humidity, 20 minutes later I'm soaking wet again. Jenn is about as thrilled as I am and has to deal with the end stages of healing of her latest tattoo on top of everything else.

This morning Jenn and I and the grand brats picked up Rachel at her mother's and we all went out to the Towson library for the 'Critter Caravans, Squeeze and Please Show'. Tortoises, snakes and lizards from small to the giant economy size that we got to touch. Rachel has seen it before so she was only excited, Ed was off the wall, and Devin was thrilled but a little bit more reserved...lol. There must have been 3 to 4 times as many kids and parents than at Pikesville for similar shows, but so much more well behaved. Just because a couple CAN have 6 or 8 kids, does not mean they should, or are qualified to parent them!

We then went to the Giant where Jenn and I took the kids in and we locked Ed and Devin in the shopping cart/kiddie car and bought the fixins for spaghetti and meat sauce and a bunch of fruit, and some frozen shrimp for shrimp salad. After we got back to the apartment and fed her kids chicken nuggets and sweet potato fries...refined palates they don't have...lol!... I made the shrimp salad for Rachel and myself, (and Jenn dived in their too), I started on the ground beef and sausage for the meat sauce. Jenn had 3/4 of a jar of RAGU, (I know, I know, but I seasoned the meats well and 'doctored' the tomato sauce), so it was a quick and dirty deal. The kids gorged on cantaloupe, grapes, watermelon, blueberries and strawberries and I showered. Rachel's mother picked her up about 5:00 pm. and after i had a bowl of spaghetti and some Key Lime pie left over from Tuesday's dinner, I split just as Tom was getting home...and ...here I am until 9:00 pm., in the A/C, when the library closes. It is too hot to travel anywhere, even if I had anywhere to be. I think I have to run over to the really bad dollar store and get some of the cheap batteries for the fan, so I can tolerate the shed tonight. It will be hot! I'll most likely sit outside until after midnight to let it cool as much as possible.



I used one of the ointments that the doctor prescribed on my legs Tuesday after I showered and the damn stuff caused the lesions to begin weeping and bleeding...that's not good! And on top of that, when I was here at the library yesterday there was an Ethiopian woman and her brood of 6 kids, each under 8 and with their own library card number, on the computers and running all over the place. Everytime I ended being assigned a computer they had just left, there would be some sort of tiny bug or fly biting at my lower legs, under the desk. I thought it was just me until some other people started talking about the same problem. And this is in Pikesville not in some shelter or soup kitchen!! I'm going to start carrying around an industrial size spray can of DEET!



I got a call from the doctor's office rescheduling my appointment with the Gastro-enterologist from the morning of the 20th to the afternoon, hell they can out it off 'til next year, I'm not that anxious about getting my very first prostate exam anyhow!!!........LOL! What's the proper protocol for that anyway? Do I bring him flowers and take him to dinner, before or after???.............LOL!!!


Okay, I guess I'm done here for now, everything else is about the same, still playing the waiting game with S.S.A. and the State DHMH. I'm slowly slipping into the downhill slide of a depressive cycle, but gradually this month. Money is down to the $10.00 level, Foodstamps are running about $50.00, prescription meds are good and I've got about 3 days of 'bupes' left. Next week on the most reasonable day, (in regards to the weather), I'm going to the East Monument Street office of JAI to see about a referral.
This weekend is ARTScape here in Baltimore, I may see about jumping on the train with Rachel and checking it again this year, there many free things to see and do, and a kids area sponsored by Target with arts and crafts.
We have been trying to get down to the Inner Harbor to the Kid's Fountain but it has been just to hot to travel by public transportation and all the walking involved. Again, maybe next week if there is a drop in the humidity at least.
I am tentatively supposed to watch the grandmonsters on Saturday morning, it is the interment of Tom's 'little brother' Nico, and I am hoping to slide in Friday evening and crash after the kids are asleep. I am so sick of this heat and the shed in these conditions, that I'll scheme and scam my way indoors almost any way I can, within limits of course. This year, the heat, even more than the cold is beating the crap out of me.....and you remember my constant editorial comments of---"Cold Weather Sucks!!!!!". One of the big things is that feeling of never really feeling clean due to the constant sheen of perspiration or salt residue on my skin.
Now, if I was at or near a beach being gently washed or even thunderously pounded by salt water waves.........well that's a different story.
One day, when Rachel is older....or is going with me.......! I at least have to get away sometime soon for a week or four before I shrivel up and die of dehydration.....adding sand and road salt to a kiddie pool just doesn't cut it! Even the margaritas don't help!.....lol.
I'm listening to a Jimmy Buffet album I've never heard before, "Buffet Hotel" from last year (2009), I don't know how I missed it.
Last night at Jenn's I watched parts of his benefit "Concert For The Gulf" from Gulf Shores, Alabama on July 11th, last night. And I saw on the news just as I was leaving Jenn's this afternoon that BP has finally capped that damn well....."About F*cking Time!!!"!
Anyway times up again, so I'll be back at some point tomorrow with another thrilling episode in the 'The Boring Life Of Dave"............
...................Later................Dave

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