This can only mean one thing…

It is, literally, 104 degrees outside.  My grass is fried to a nice, crisp yellow.  I woke up at the luxurious hour of 7:30 this morning.  And I have the time and mental energy to think about posting to my silly little blog.

Ahhh…summer.

For the first time since I was fifteen, I will not have a summer job.  Although I’ll miss the type of summer work I have been doing for the past eight years or so (glorified camp counselor at nerd camps), I’m really looking forward to a couple of months of, well, not much.  Going on a couple trips.  Reading books.  Planning for next year.  Getting stuff done around the house.

Speaking of that last item, I know the time will end up slipping through my fingers like so many proverbial grains of sand or whatever, so here are a few of the things I want to get accomplished around the yellow brick house this summer:

• Water the lawn enough that it doesn’t uproot itself and blow away, which my dad said it would do.  This is so much easier to do when I don’t get up at 5 in the morning, spend 10 hours at school, and then get home and just want to lie on the couch for the rest of my life.
• Get rid of the ivy.  All of the ivy.  Everywhere.  I hate it and it’s a scourge.  This might be hard, but perhaps it will involve fire, which could be fun.
• Pare down other stuff.  Figure out how to trim (prune?) things.  Also, figuring out the correct terms would be a good start.
• Put curtains up in the living room.  I have the hardware but need a better electric drill and also a person who’s good at electrically drilling things.  Which does not describe me, so yeah, someone else.
• Finish up the guest room.  I’ve decided I’m going to live with the awkward minty green on the walls and add in some sky blue and a little bit of orange (this is all rooted in a pillow I bought the other day).  I’d like an area rug in there, but we’ll see.
• Paint the cabinet in the guest bathroom.  The wood is ugly.
• Paint a couple pieces of furniture I have hanging out in the garage.  This will have to wait until it gets under 100 degrees.  Sheesh.
• Generally de-clutter and reorganize.  I am cluttery person.  It is my downfall.  Very occasionally I go crazy and run around throwing things away.  I need this to happen at least once this summer.

I’m sure there’s other stuff, but that is PLENTY for right now.  Because this is the summer of doing not-much, not everything-I-can-think-of.  Duh.

P.S. Guest room pillow…

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