It’s only April

Some colleagues who were supposed to come over and swim today stood me up, so I took a 20-minute walk to meet another couple for dinner. I was wearing jeans, a T-shirt and tennis shoes.

By the time I got there, I was soaked. I guess I hadn’t walked outside in awhile, and last week, it was gorgeous with very low humidity. But today it was 88 with a “feels like” of 99. On April 19. (Happy birthday, Beth!) I just forgot that you can’t wear jeans and anything with socks past, say, St. Patrick’s Day. It was just awfully muggy. I had sweat rolling down gross parts and even the knees of my jeans were sweat through; never mind the new LL Bean T-shirt.

And that’s what I am going to be in for until, oh, about September. Joy. I have my last two boxes of Junior Mints (my nightly dessert) on order and when those run out, I have to switch to LifeSavers. Chocolate in the spring, summer and early fall mail doesn’t work here.

So, despite dinner out, it was still a fairly slow weekend. I was in the office all day Saturday doing some catch-up and escort duty, which was fine by me. We had some big thing last week and since I get copies on what seems like every group email in the place, I had a ton of stuff to just sit and delete. We also have a bunch of temporary people coming in and out and I was trying to straighten some of that out, too. It’s something that changes on a daily basis.

I’m in a stretch of about a month or so where I am not leaving town. I even had a three-day weekend coming up and no plane ticket yet. It’s kind of amazing, but I’ve really emptied out my bucket list. My next solidified trip is at Memorial Day, but until then I really don’t know. We have a safari park in town and I’m trying to get one of the families to go there with me over that three-day. Otherwise, Hong Kong might call.

Next week is the dentist. I haven’t been in a year and have this jaw thing going on. We have a dentist who lives in the building and I just ran into him. He asked when we are going out and I suggested after my appointment, since I’m the last of the day on Saturday. Yay! I have plans.