I do have things sitting here waiting for me to review but it’s hot and I’m lazy. Yes, I know that it’s not as hot in West Hollywood this morning as it is in say Wauwatosa or even West Adams. and Washington DC and the rest of the East Coast could be underwater by Thursday. So I shouldn’t be complaining because it’s not hot, comparatively. And I have AC.
But I don’t let that stop me.
I do have a packet of musk samples that I need to get to as well as a few others but when it’s too hot I just want to bite people. We are getting humidity (again, relatively. It’s 45%, which is in West Virginia desert-like, I suppose) so it’s like a wet sauna to me. Ugh.
Rain we aren’t getting. Yet.
So I have been turning to the lighter side, mostly of things you’ve already read about: Alvarez Gomez, Dior Eau Sauvage, Acqua di Parma, and the default for me, Eau de Hadrien. I love Eau de Sud even more but that one can come out in the evening.
So, a couple of updates. I am down to either 190 or 199, depending upon where I stand on the Hume scale the people who refunded me the second one that didn’t work left me with rather than paying to ship it back.
The $13 digital LCD scale I have had for years reads 196. I will be very happy when it’s 175. I know that sounds thin for someone that tall, but I have a very weird body- big chest and shoulders on teensy little hips and ankles and wrist that’s about 7″ in circumference. Which is a plus and a minus- I tell myself that I can carry a few extra lbs. and not show it. Don’t dissuade me.
Since it’s been hot and in season and dirt cheap I have been having watermelon a lot. I make a salad out of it- watermelon chunks with crumbled goat cheese and diced red onion that I soak in lime juice. Black pepper and maldon salt and you have a nice lunch dish. With a cold piece of chicken or fish it’s dinner. Berries are in season and I am a total fool for them. I will say that the blackberries I used to filch in the woods behind our houses growing up tasted better but that might be the glow of nostalgia and the added sweetness of (somewhat) purloining them. If I don’t eat them in a day or two they go in the freezer. I can add them into plain yoghurt frozen the night before and have them ready for breakfast.
I wouldn’t try to get away with that top,
Okay- I’ve babbled long enough about not very much- how is your week going? Are you in the path of Weather? (who isn’t, according to the news?) What are you doing to beat the heat? (I know it’s winter South of the border. If I had SuperLooto winnings I’d be travelling between hemispheres telling everyone “I haven’t seen an Autumn or Winter in years..”)
Most of the summery ones I’ve mentioned are able to be sampled at Surrender To Chance.
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Well, in the past week we went from “Heat Advisory” to “Extreme Heat Warning”. Temps were in the 90’s to over 100’s with high humidity. Friday evening and night the Dew Point was 80F!!!! I’ve never seen that! Breathing outside was uncomfortable. Today was in the 90’s. Tonight “85F feels like 96F” and the Dew Point is 77F! And humid! Kansas City has been shockingly quiet. Even the homeless seem to be in hiding. That’s my miserable tale.