The Heat Wave Continues

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The heat wave continues to try to melt our bodies every time we even think about going out the door.

Last night at the studio we had to cancel the evening classes in the big dance room because the air conditioner went out. WHAT A MESS!! It was 96 degress in that room. The office wasn't much cooler.

I finally left the studio at 9:30 pm with the air conditioner man on the roof, and Ginny at the restaurant down the strip from the studio. She came back at 10:30 and the man was still there.

Today it appears to be cooling the studio, but we will see when we get 100 bodies inside tonight.

We finally have the wedding sorted and put away, and boxes ready to mail to Shyla and Britni.

Now my focus will turn to sewing....I am going to make the bean bag chairs and curtains for the upstairs dance studio, and then go on to costuming for the Mary Poppins Production for Ginny.

Dad is getting ready to leave town for a couple of weeks, and school starts here on the 27th.

The little girls are going to a dance camp for the next three days this week, so that will give them something to do besides dance upstairs.

My major problem this week is deciding how to cram a million dance costumes into a small closet. Dad cleaned out the storage unit, so everything is home again. It wouldn't be to bad, but the feathers are screaming that they are getting squished, and the leotards do not want to be by the hip hop costumes. Heaven knows the tights will get all up in arms if they have to be in the box with the hats, so as you can see, I have a "Situation".

I want to contain those dumb feathers, otherwise they shed all over the place. Have you ever tried to vacumn up feathers. If a ceiling fan is going, there is just no hope. And with the heat, we don't turn the fans off.

The hats are another issue. They really should be kept in their hat boxes, but we need the boxes for other hats this year. Yes, I am too cheap to buy other hat boxes!

The hip hop outfits seem to think it is hilarious to just fall off the hangers, so I keep finding them all over the floor. I tried clothes pins, but they seem to pop those off too!

And the dance shoes, they just have the run of the house!! I mean, just how many pairs can four feet wear? And how come we have to have several colors of the same kind of shoe? What is the sense in all of this?

The worst culprit in the costume closet are the fishnet tights. Those are so angry at the prospect that they might have to have the rhinestones peeled off and another color glued on. I never realized that something so full of holes could create such a ruckus! At $30 a pair, I am going to try to reuse them. That should be interesting! If they don't behave, I am going to put them on those swimming noodle things, and just stand them in the corner for a good long time.

At least, the make up and jewelry that is still stored in the sewing room are behaving. At least I think they are, who knows what they could get up to in the middle of the night. Maybe while Dad is out of town, I will stay up and do some surveillance to see what really goes on in that room in the dark with the door shut.

Maybe I could enlist the help of my new serger as a spy, or even the floor lamp. It could suddenly turn on, and then the serger could sew things together that were misbehaving! Sounds like a plan to me. As long as the bean bag chair stuffing balls don't get loose, we should all be ok.

I have just returned from wrestling the cleaning rags into the dryer! Those rags have a mind of their own most days, and today they are saying it's too hot outside to be inside the dryer in the house! Give me a break! I think I deserve one of those big belt buckles for managing to get them all inside the dryer and it turned on before they escaped again. There will probably be an uprising when I open the door to change the load. Maybe I won't, and I'll just tell Dad when he gets home. He can take his chances with the rags! He can handle hanging up dance leotards, so he should be able to tame the cleaning rags don't you think?

Russell: I finally found a charger for that game thing that came home from the studio.....now the little girls think you need to come back and show them how to play it. I think they have a good idea...bring Shyla with you.

Dad finally got the last tree from the wedding returned this week. Sister Hyde has been out of town. His poor tigers are now depressed since they can't go outside and play in the forest anymore!

Well, enough of this foolishness for today.

All of you reading this, remember Dad and I love you very much. Go out there and do something you can be proud of today. Make amends with someone, do a bit of service, and mostly remember to represent your Heavenly Father.

Love you.

Mom