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Wow, it's been really hot lately. Thank goodness for sunscreen and a condo and workplace with central air! Working out has been a lot more of a chore lately. There were a few days where there was no breeze at all. On those, the sun just beat down and gave me more of a farmer's tan (even though I wear sunscreen). Honestly, though, I'm thankful for the days when I successfully get out there and do stuff. My back has been making things difficult lately, so I'm always excited when it lets me do things.

Well, on Friday I went to a birthday party/Arbonne presentation at a friend from work's apartment. It was fun to see her place and even to get inspired to make our place feel a little bit more like home. It was hot, though. When I left it was 105 degrees out and my car had been sitting out there for a while. The seats were almost unbearable, even when wearing jeans. I rushed home to the coolness of my bedroom and watched tv and napped with Pip. Ric and I stayed in that night, although we did make a little trip out to Target to kill some boredom and pick up a few food items. I finished watching King Kong (the Jessica Lange edition) and we watched more 30 Rock on the Roku.

Saturday I slept in, then got up and started working on paint touch-up in the kitchen. I swear, I just touch up with white along an edge and then need to do more touch up with beige. One of these days there will be a crisp-looking edge. Anyway, I got through a lot of The Last of the Mohicans over the weekend while painting. I'm really enjoying it. In the evening Ric and I went to Shoe City to get him a new pair of shoes and then headed over to Brea to go see Get Smart. Our theater was packed and everyone had a great time. At home, we finished season one of 30 Rock (only took us a week).

Sunday we went to church. The high school pastor kicked off a series called Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, which is a series that features lessons from children's ministries being brought to the main sermon. It's kind of fun, but a little bit more milk than meat for my tastes. We'll see how the rest of the sermons go. After church we tried out Sansei, a new Japanese place over where they're renovating the old SuperK to make a Target and Circut City. There are a bunch of new restaurants over there, so we decided to get out of the rut and try new places. Well... meh. I'd rather pay $5 for a bowl at the Flame Broiler, which is much tastier. I'll have to give it another try sometime and try something besides their spicy chicken breast bowl.

We went home and I worked on more touch up until it was time for our weekly trip to Lowe's. We bought doors for our hallway closet, new fixtures for the bathroom tub/shower, and more painting supplies. I spent the next several hours painting and listening to TLOTM. When I was done I realized I had done too much. Oops. Well, we watched the opening hour to Helvetica until Ric had to go to bed for an early morning, and then I watched The Lady from Shanghai. I tried to read after that, but Pip interrupted me every paragraph or so for attention, so I gave up and went to bed.

Up this week: grocery shopping, painting, maybe a night at Disneyland with my sister, and maybe a fun activity of some kind for short Friday.