Hot, damn hot

It's gone from gray and overcast to unbelievably freaking hot in the past two days. I'm melting. And not in a pretty way either. There is sweat involved here people. I've worked up that sweat mainly by eating my weight in freezer pops, because heaven knows my ass won't fit into my freezer. What? It's not like you haven't tried it.

Surprisingly, the boys haven't tried to kill each other in the past few minutes. Friday night was bad, really bad with Boy 1. His dad was going to come up and get him for the weekend, to give him time to cool down and maybe get him to open up over what's been up his ass, er, bothering him the past few weeks. My problem with that is that he acts up, and then gets the reward of a whole weekend alone with Dad. And since Him isn't a disciplinarian, it would be a fun weekend. Lots of reward. I know that's not what Him intended, but I also know Him. After about 10 minutes of telling Boy 1 that he's disappointed with his behavior, they'd go out and rent movies that he wouldn't be allowed to see at home and thus would begin their fun filled weekend.

And I'm sure that would teach him a lesson.

So, it was with baited breath (and knotted stomach) that I faced the weekend. Especially because this was "atone for your behavior weekend" wherein we've fixed a few of the things he's done lately. We fixed that screen that was ripped out when he threw a basketball through it. We fixed the dent in the screen door that was dented when he hurled a basketball at his brother who had ducked behind the door to hide. And we wood puttied and painted the window sill that was gouged when he took a knife and made about 30 gouges in it, because he was angry.

I was worried that this would put Boy 1 in a bad mood. And it did, a bit, but not too badly. He helped fix things with a perfect snotty attitude (it's not my fault these things happened, you made me mad and whatever, I'm just here because life is that unfair).

So, back to the main gripe. It's hot. Damn hot. The boys and I installed a ...dryer thing. You know, you hang your clothing outside on the thing, and they dry, only without using $8,000 worth of electricity? It was good timing too, because it's so hot that things have dried in about 10 minutes. Just enough time to peel myself off the ground and start another load.