July 15, 2008
Summer Slowdown
You’d think, hey it’s summer, I should be able to get more down. Well I’m here to tell you, not so much. One thing after another comes up (like the A/C breaking for the THIRD FREAKING TIME IN A MONTH OF 100 degree days) and thanks to the kiddos being off school, you have to deal with them because pretty much they stand next to your ear saying, “mom, mom, mom…” until you respond some way or another.
I really thought I’d have so much more done by this point. I even bet Lynn as much (but the month ain’t over, I still have time!)
I don’t know if it’s a heat thing. Or a kids home thing or just a combo of both, but summer time sucks. Who knows, maybe it’s the hard wire from childhood when you had summer off and didn’t have to do a thing and so now your brain knows it’s summer it shuts off!
Mine seems to be less and less useful……
It seems longer daytime hours, means more stuff to do. :-P Before you know it, it’s 11:30pm, time for bed and you haven’t accomplished half of what you wanted to, even though it felt like you were going a 100 miles per hour all day.
What Jaq said.
So much more to do in summer, so it seems like whatever you DO get done isn’t nearly enough.
But I’ll take the warm weather over the frigid stuff. Shorter days and cold just make my brain say, “okay, going into hibernation mode now…”
Note to self…never write post when it is hotter in the house than out!
I didn’t mean for it to sounds as whiny as it came out. But it truly amazes me how the heat can just drain you and make your brain shut off. The house didn’t get back to “normal” until probably 8 pm, by then I was exhausted!
One of the fun summer things is coming up–I’m taking the boys to San Antonio… I have my note pad packed and hope to get several pages done while we’re away!
I mowed the front yard this morning and had to stop about 5 times for ICE COLD WATER! The neighbor kids came home so I offered them money if they would do the back yard.
They knew a sucker when they saw one coming! I gratefully headed to the ATM machine. I would have died if the A/C were broken, too.
This is my busy summer week. We are off to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas tomorrow afternoon. (maybe I’ll find something.)
Have fun in San Antonio!
You know if I lived some where else I could understand how the kids could drive you mad. My computer faces outside. I tell my kids to play outside with the waterhouse. They play FOR HOURS. I get lots done. I do get a lot of interruptions, but that’s better than 24/7 “mom, mom, mom…”
Our AC broke about a month ago. We had to get a whole new unit. $4,100. To add insult to injury one of the two guys who installed the thing STOLE our UPS delivery. I’d ordered two movies off Amazon and the packages were delivered to my doorstep, but they miraculously disappeared. We get Amazon deliveries every week. Our doorway is obscured from the street by shrubs. We’ve never had a problem until these two bozos showed up. I called the owner of the company and he deducted the money ($33) off our bill, all the while insisting he still trusts his workers.
Needless to say, they lost our business for good.
“maybe it’s the hard wire from childhood when you had summer off”
Think there’s something to that.
That’s the way to do it Lynn! (my 11-y-o does it for $10 bucks a mow)
Mel, that sounds ideal. My “office” is in the middle of the house. Unfortunately our backyard is teeny (most of the losts where we live we designed for 2 stories and we got the 1 story ’cause someone tends to fall down stairs
) But they seem to like to sit on the back porch and harrass the dogs–it freeaks them out when we come into their territory. 
Tanya ~ that stinks! Our A/C went out last year and they replaced the outside unti. This summer the coils went belly up. Monday it was the starter (covered by the warranty tahnk goodness). When he started working on it, he said it might be that and would be a freak thing. I told him if it’s weird or freakinsh it WILL happen to us!
Bummer on the movies. I came home yesterday from San Antonio and found two boxes on my front porch. I open them and it’s $1600 worth of B&N gift cards for Nationals for one of my chapters. They just left it sitting there, no siggy, no nothing. I couldn’t believe it.
Think there’s something to that
I have wondered. Basically you go for 12-16-possobly 20 years of school having “summer breaks”. I know at least two of my boys are determined NOT to do anything remotely resembling school or learning…didn’t even want to see the Alamo because he’d already covered it in school that year! Sheesh!