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Shower update, heat, and
Aug. 15th, 2021 06:51 pmFriday was Interesting!
The shower saga: ( We think this time it may be fixed. We'll see. )
Alex proposed frozen pizza dinner. I counter-proposed Costco pizza dinner, on account of the heat. Belovedest went off to Costco and eventually returned with pizza and it was delicious.
I was too hot to sleep by bedtime (still feeling slightly sunburned despite not having been in the sun) and the shower was out of commission, so I sponged myself down the best I could. I was eventually able to sleep.
I ran the living room air conditioning overnight, because one of the fun parts of heat wave is that it doesn't cool down enough overnight and we start the morning already too hot. Lesson from Arizona: having your climate system at Too Damn Cold overnight means you get a head start on the heat so it's merely Warm during the day, and not Too Damn Hot.
Saturday: we mainly lounged around in the heat, waiting for the shower to be ready to use again. When it was about that time, I went outside and started up the clippers. Belovedest wanted to be shorn. I finished more quickly than usual. Alex wanted to try an undercut. I saved them a lock before entirely getting the sides. I see places that I want to improve if I ever do that again, but they're pleased.
Today, Sunday:
Shopping day. (We did not get the early start we wanted to.)
Since Smort closes before Costco on Sunday, we hit Smort first. The state of the shelves was Somewhat Alarming, and they are limiting customers to two cases of whatever at one time. In addition to the burritos we went in there for, I also grabbed us some chips, some shelf-stable cupcakes, and some almond (and therefore Belovedest-safe) Snickers. I mentioned the State of Things to the checkout clerk in passing, who said that the warehouse is shut entirely down due to the number of sick people there. I'm guessing it was probably Delta. Yikes.
I'm considering this a bellwether about the supply chain. I don't know how many of them were vaccinated. But it's probably time to make sure youse have the supplies to wait out another shutdown of "nonessential" services. Regardless of top-down shutdowns, things are going to halt if too many people are sick at once.
I think we were getting low on toilet paper, so I grabbed one of those at Costco. Belovedest reassured me that we have a lot of frozen, pre-formed hamburgers in the downstairs freezer, and a lot of broccoli as well. Those are two of our staples, and we already have beans and rice.
It was slightly cooler today than yesterday, so after we got the car cooled down from its parked-all-day state, we were able to just whizz around with the windows down. I emptied my water bottle so we made a stop for sustenance (and cool drinks, mostly the cool drinks) on the way from Costco to the pharmacy to retrieve my current batch of meds. Belovedest relayed that two of them are supposed to be coming in tomorrow. Yay.
The-Steph is coming next week. I'm not fully logistically ready for that. I've got a mammogram this week. I'm not sure I'm emotionally ready for that, but it's got to be better than last year when I didn't have my phone available due to it being broken by a battery replacement gone wrong. (I have my next appointment with my counselor the day after, so I can have whatever feelings I'm having in her direction.)
The shower saga: ( We think this time it may be fixed. We'll see. )
Alex proposed frozen pizza dinner. I counter-proposed Costco pizza dinner, on account of the heat. Belovedest went off to Costco and eventually returned with pizza and it was delicious.
I was too hot to sleep by bedtime (still feeling slightly sunburned despite not having been in the sun) and the shower was out of commission, so I sponged myself down the best I could. I was eventually able to sleep.
I ran the living room air conditioning overnight, because one of the fun parts of heat wave is that it doesn't cool down enough overnight and we start the morning already too hot. Lesson from Arizona: having your climate system at Too Damn Cold overnight means you get a head start on the heat so it's merely Warm during the day, and not Too Damn Hot.
Saturday: we mainly lounged around in the heat, waiting for the shower to be ready to use again. When it was about that time, I went outside and started up the clippers. Belovedest wanted to be shorn. I finished more quickly than usual. Alex wanted to try an undercut. I saved them a lock before entirely getting the sides. I see places that I want to improve if I ever do that again, but they're pleased.
Today, Sunday:
Shopping day. (We did not get the early start we wanted to.)
Since Smort closes before Costco on Sunday, we hit Smort first. The state of the shelves was Somewhat Alarming, and they are limiting customers to two cases of whatever at one time. In addition to the burritos we went in there for, I also grabbed us some chips, some shelf-stable cupcakes, and some almond (and therefore Belovedest-safe) Snickers. I mentioned the State of Things to the checkout clerk in passing, who said that the warehouse is shut entirely down due to the number of sick people there. I'm guessing it was probably Delta. Yikes.
I'm considering this a bellwether about the supply chain. I don't know how many of them were vaccinated. But it's probably time to make sure youse have the supplies to wait out another shutdown of "nonessential" services. Regardless of top-down shutdowns, things are going to halt if too many people are sick at once.
I think we were getting low on toilet paper, so I grabbed one of those at Costco. Belovedest reassured me that we have a lot of frozen, pre-formed hamburgers in the downstairs freezer, and a lot of broccoli as well. Those are two of our staples, and we already have beans and rice.
It was slightly cooler today than yesterday, so after we got the car cooled down from its parked-all-day state, we were able to just whizz around with the windows down. I emptied my water bottle so we made a stop for sustenance (and cool drinks, mostly the cool drinks) on the way from Costco to the pharmacy to retrieve my current batch of meds. Belovedest relayed that two of them are supposed to be coming in tomorrow. Yay.
The-Steph is coming next week. I'm not fully logistically ready for that. I've got a mammogram this week. I'm not sure I'm emotionally ready for that, but it's got to be better than last year when I didn't have my phone available due to it being broken by a battery replacement gone wrong. (I have my next appointment with my counselor the day after, so I can have whatever feelings I'm having in her direction.)
