I am steaming mad at this weather this summer! How can anyone call this a summer? How can anyone enjoy being in a perpetual sauna everywhere you go? It does not sit well with me that every time I occupy a chair for five minutes I get up and feel like I've peed my shorts. Nor do I relish the thought that my 24-hour deodourant kicks the bucket after only 4 hours because it is having to do triple duty, and then I end up walking around the grocery store thinking someone with bad BO is following me (only to realize it is ME)!

I was so desperate for the summer to start. I LOVE opening my windows and letting gentle breezes float lazily in, while enjoying the trilling of garden birds and the buzzing of busy bees. This year I've pretty well huddled in my air-conditioned cave most of the summer with the windows jammed shut and the blinds pulled. I keep hoping each morning that the appalling humidity has left town, and run around throwing the windows open for a gasp of real air. Five minutes later I'm running around slamming them all shut again while I gasp for ANY air. THIS is NOT summer. THIS is TORTURE.

Now, I have to go change my shorts again as I've been sitting and typing for five minutes. Yes..even in the air conditioning I sweat. Like they say, "You just can't get away from the humidity". And it has found me!