I may go back to bed

It's raining. For the second day in a row my newspaper got soaked. What's the purpose of putting the paper in a plastic bag if you then throw the bag into a puddle in the driveway?

I love sleepy rainy mornings. I'd like to open all the windows and let the cool rainy air come through, but it's just too hot. I haven't been able to turn the air off for a month. Let me rephrase that: I could have at any time this past month turned off the air but chose not to because I'm such a big whiney baby who hates to be uncomfortable.

So my bedroom. I have been spending money like crazy. I think I went shopping every day this week. Normally I can go months without ever shopping. But my can of paint has morphed into new everything. New mattress, new bed, new art, new window stuff, new lighting, new fan.

I bought some picture frames that I liked and then planned to buy some prints to go in them. But I couldn't find any 8X10 prints. Other than those simply adorable ones of cute little kitty cats in teacups or some other nonsense. I kept looking at big ones trying to figure out how to cut them up. But who wants to spend $30 on a print just to cut it up? I'm much too cheap to do something like that.

I went to Borders to look at calendars to cut up. There were 2 to choose from: lighthouses and Amish people. What happens to all the 2006 calendars that don't sell? Why can't someone sell those for like a dollar? What I really wanted was some simple black and white prints. I found a book about orchids for $3 that had some great pictures in it. So now I have pretty white orchids in frames for my bedroom. And yes, one of them is a ghost orchid. I'm digging through old frames and trying to figure out where else I can hang orchids. Since I killed the lovely orchid I used to have, this is the only way I can ever have an orchid.

My sister yelled at me for not having pics of my family on every possible table top or free wall space, so I think I might hang a few of the kids.

Speaking of kids, i'd like to post a pic I just got of my niece, but my brother told me he is much too private a person to be mentioned on this blog, along with his darling daughter. Which is odd, since this is the same person who runs in his underwear. So just picture it: the third cutest kid you've ever seen, sitting in a big green tub, grabbing her toes with a big elfin smile on her face. I hope she's an elf for halloween. Or a pixie! A pixie would be a fun costume to make. We can save the elf for Xmas.

Instead I'll leave you with a pic I took on the way to guitar lessons yesterday. One of the things I love about where I live is old places like this that don't really belong anymore. Except maybe It's the new McMansions that don't belong.