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Time to watch Die Hard again
I have this cheering seasonal message from Die Hard [which IS a Christmas movie!] on some custom-made cards, copies of the one we gave the gamesmaster one year. This is my newest icon. I'll use the one with the giant spider in the Christmas hat next time, so fair warning to arachnophobes.
Summer has dropped on us from a great height. Yes, I did mention the coastal breeze being too cold on Saturday night! Today the city reached 39^C, highest since they started counting. I live closer to the coast than that now, so we got 37-38^C. So I've stayed close to home except for a food run this morning before it got too hot. I have to say, though this place definitely isn't perfect, the elevation and the location next to the coast means we won't suffer the full heat the city, and especially Bassendean, which is an inland suburb, goes through every year. Bassendean regularly goes over the official temperatures.
I was supposed to be doing fish and chips wrangling tonight but my mother pulled her sudden sick trick again. I've got nothing to explain it, honestly I don't, but at least half the time anything is arranged, she'll do this. If it really was a cold, which she complains of having once a week on average, she'd be a freaking medical miracle. Or worthy of future study, at least. It'll probably happen for Christmas.
I don't really do Christmas; it sort of happens around me. But any year we don't spend in Emergency is good, right? M got an infection two years ago and yeah, that's where we went. Up to a few years back, I used to go to friends, but that's sort of fallen apart. This year I guess I'm grateful for not being in the midst of that pretty bad work-related stress and drama, culminating in redundancy first announced on 12/12. They messed the four of us around for a while before finally confirming it on the 24th. So I'll take what comes.
Summer has dropped on us from a great height. Yes, I did mention the coastal breeze being too cold on Saturday night! Today the city reached 39^C, highest since they started counting. I live closer to the coast than that now, so we got 37-38^C. So I've stayed close to home except for a food run this morning before it got too hot. I have to say, though this place definitely isn't perfect, the elevation and the location next to the coast means we won't suffer the full heat the city, and especially Bassendean, which is an inland suburb, goes through every year. Bassendean regularly goes over the official temperatures.
I was supposed to be doing fish and chips wrangling tonight but my mother pulled her sudden sick trick again. I've got nothing to explain it, honestly I don't, but at least half the time anything is arranged, she'll do this. If it really was a cold, which she complains of having once a week on average, she'd be a freaking medical miracle. Or worthy of future study, at least. It'll probably happen for Christmas.
I don't really do Christmas; it sort of happens around me. But any year we don't spend in Emergency is good, right? M got an infection two years ago and yeah, that's where we went. Up to a few years back, I used to go to friends, but that's sort of fallen apart. This year I guess I'm grateful for not being in the midst of that pretty bad work-related stress and drama, culminating in redundancy first announced on 12/12. They messed the four of us around for a while before finally confirming it on the 24th. So I'll take what comes.