26 Going On 70

This climate is making me so much more like my Okie grandmother and great-grandmother...After both of my lukewarm/cold showers every day, I powder up. I see now where I grandma is coming from with this shit. Yes, Shower-to-Shower is old lady-scented, but I don't mind smelling like a sachet when I can be chafe-free and less sticky.

So then once I'm all lavender-ed up, I put on a "house dress" if anything at all. The a/c hovers around 80 degrees, which is comfortable but still a little sweaty. Why bother with real clothes? I was totally wearing this super sexy moo-moo when the maintenance guy came by today to fix some stuff.

I was inspired to buy this polyester beauty at House of Vintage by Tracie, my hero/stay-at-home Jezebel-editor extraordinaire. However, my great-grandma wore the same things everyday while she played solitaire on her coffee table and watched her "stories" or creepy televangelism.
Hmm, I watched True Blood and played Spider Solitaire on my laptop in between unpacking and doing housewife-y stuff today....

So, it's hot. And I am basically a crotchety old lady. As soon as we're mostly unpacked, I'll start looking for age appropriate hobbies/a job. But I'll still smell like a grandma.

The day the internet died

So after the last post our internet decided to fail for a while. It is finally back up (what Leah did to fix it I will never know) so I can post. Anyway, we went out with a couple of my co-workers and their girlfriends on Saturday night. It was pretty fun. We met up at the brewery for a couple free beers and then headed downtown. Down there we went to a Creole restaurant and had some jambalaya and *gasp* alligator. One of the guys from the brewery had ordered these "gator bites" and they tasted a lot like orange chicken. They were pretty delicious. We then went to a bar for quite a long time until it got a little too "bro-y" then we took off. We got home at about 1am and found out that 1am was the one time of the day when the weather was actually pleasant (we had a 3-day heatwave where we had 100 degree days with 50% humidity. It was gross). Another lesson learned was that to get Leah to move mattresses, you just have to feed her gin and tonics. Unloading was a success!!

Other than that, today was my first day at the brewery and it was pretty low-key and I enjoy the people I work with. Despite it being a 10 hour day, it was still pretty good. We are still unpacking and settling in and trying to find the things we are missing from our apartment.

To end on a positive note, the bugs are still large, we are getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, and we can't cook without setting off the fire alarm.

Hot Enough For Ya?

We arrived at our new home Wednesday afternoon, but the truck with our belongings (including internet things) came today. So here begins the updates.

In our couple days of exploring, we've come upon lots of "southern things" already - some surprising and some expected. The two things West Coast-ers immediately say when we mention North Carolina are HEAT and GIANT BUGS. They have no idea...

As I said, the moving truck came today and we have all weekend to unload it. All extreme heat advisory weekend.

THE COMBINATION OF VERY HIGH HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES NEAR 100 DEGREES WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 105 AND 110 DEGREES

So thanks for that, weather channel.

The afternoons are crazy hot. I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my life as I did today, what with hating sweating/physical activity. We thought today that we would wait until nightfall to unpack what more we couldn't get in before it hit 100 degrees today. NOPE.

As the temperature decreases the humidity increases, seemingly as a rule. A whole new kind of sweaty, possibly worse. And darkness brings a whole new swarm of problems: Giant beetles, crickets, and whatever the f* this thing is!!!

It flew around me at the front door when we came home with groceries. It stalked around waiting for me to open it again and while making ice water for Jared (who is still carrying boxes while I stop to document this) it came right at me again in the kitchen!

Do I even need to stop and point out the wtf-ness of this bug? You see the scale, and the DANGLY THING! I wish we had a side view of how big that booty was, and maybe video of the way it rotated its wings slowly in opposite directions.

So moving took like a 15 min break while this thing flew around the apartment tricking/terrifying us before Jared finally killed it.

Back to moving now, let's see if we can get a bed moved in tonight so we are less like squatters in our house!