Don't sweat the small stuff

The usual response to 'Don't sweat the small stuff' is 'It's all small stuff' but I have a new one: 'Can't stop sweating'!

I am not bearing up well in this humid heat. I have waves of sweat dampening my clothes and making me feel in turns heavy-headed and faint. I am crabby and tired and feeling rather desperate because I am so hot.

We came back from a movie to a very hot house, much hotter than outdoors at 9:35 p.m. JR and I ended up disagreeing because he has the fans blowing out the windows, whereas I like them blowing on me to dry the moisture on my skin (I got tired of saying 'sweat'.) While I have no doubt it's useful to have the fans blowing outside, I really suffer without the fan's drying properties on my wet self.....We both came down here to the basement, and I was seriously considering sleeping down here, but now that I've sat here 10 minutes, I am liquid again so I guess this is no improvement.

Ironically, we decided to go to a movie because movie theatres are air-conditioned, and ended up at the Dunbar only to discover that it had air-conditioning only in the lobby. Half-way through Harry Potter, which is over 2 hours long, I was bathed in sweat and feeling itchy again.

The movie itself was great fun....Focused a lot on the boy-girl aspect of things, since the main characters are all now 16 or 17 years old, but there were lots of magic tricks and wand-wavings too, and of course, this is the one where Dumbledore gets killed right at the end....The last book in the series will be 2 movies, as it is so long and covers so much. When all of the Harry Potter movies are out, I think it would be fun to buy the dvd set.

Spent some time today organizing things for my trip to the Island, reading the list sent by the kayak tour people and making a pile of things in my office to be packed. It is extremely difficult to be thinking about wet gear and things to keep me warm in the campsite at night, when I am fainting from 29 degrees of heat - I have to keep reminding myself that the weather could change between now and Saturday, when we actually embark on the kayak weekend!

Talked to Elsa and arranged to pick her up at McDonald's in Ladner, so we can load her stuff into my car easily, and then hit the ferry. I made reservations for both ways, even though Duke Point is not usually that busy, as it means one less thing to worry about on the trip. I am looking forward to this adventure, and it is very neat that Nikki is coming too - I think it's the first time she's done something like this, although she is an experienced kayaker.

I told Elsa that I haven't yet used my new kayak, and that I was hoping she would go kayaking with me in August. I have yet to carry my kayak by myself or attach it to my car; I have been waiting for JR's help. But Sunday is his only day off, and the last 3 Sundays were spent with him looking at houses with Mits and Pete, and then helping Jordan and Kerri with their flooring - there has been no time to help me play with my new toy.

Most of today I spent reading. I started a new book last night, and then read all of it today. It was an amazing book, one of the best I have ever read. I am still absorbing it, and very, very sorry it is finished....