Barb wrote today and said that she'd heard we were having a heatwave. I
wrote back and said that "heatwave" was relative--it did get up into the
low 40s this week, and compared to what it's been, it
did feel something
like a heatwave. I went down to Meiner's and got a salad for my lunch, and
I briefly considered sitting outside on the sidewalk to eat it, but even
though the temperature probably would have allowed it, it's been
really
damp, and it feels cooler than it is, I think.
In any event, it's nice to be able to go outside in just a sweatshirt and
not a heavy coat. Not that I have a heavy coat . . . I have some
sort of block about buying coats. And shoes--I hate to buy shoes.
In fact, I pretty much hate to buy clothes of any kind, but shoes and
coats seem to be the worst.
I've got a great, long dark green overcoat, but I think it looks weird with jeans--it's
too long, I think, or maybe I'm just short--so I don't wear it unless I'm wearing a
skirt, which lately is pretty much never.
I have a jeans jacket, and a couple of other light jackets, and a long
sweater with a hood that I like a lot, and a few sweatshirts, and a light
fleece coat which I've been wearing quite a bit, but no real casual
coat. I've been idly thinking that maybe this would be a good time to buy
one on sale, but I'm also thinking that at the end of winter I'd be even
less likely to want to buy a coat, since I'd only be wearing it another
five or six weeks, if that.
I know I have a problem, I'm just not sure what it is.
I've been Weblogémonized! If you visit
this page and answer a few simple questions about me
(click on "Mood Swings"), you can capture me and view my card.
In other news, I got a really interesting email yesterday from a guy at
Maxis who is working on the new Sims game, SimsVille. He had seen my journal and was contacting me to
see if I would be interested in creating a family for the new game.
Of course I was, and of course it had to be my family. Well, my
family with a little elaboration:
I was going to make Bob and Willa the parents, and Pyewacket and Dinah
the children, but I was afraid that they wouldn't put a family in the game
with a child named "Pyewacket," so I decided just to go with our regular
two-person family. SimsVille is an extension of the game in that (I believe)
there's a whole town full of Sim people to interact with, rather than just
one small neighborhood. It should definitely be interesting.
I don't think I mentioned it here, but I've re-done
Mood Swings. The
old page was getting too large and unwieldy, and I was beginning to dread
trying to update it, which is my cue that it's time to do something about
it.
People who had come to depend on the world o'links version were disappointed,
but those who had stopped visiting it because it took so long to load are
happy, so while I hate to disappoint anyone, I also know that I'm the one
who has to update it, and if it had continued on the way it was going, I
was probably going to have to stop updating it at all.
So I figure we're all better off, and I'm also now updating it using
Blogger,
so since I don't have to do it manually anymore, it should be updated
much more frequently.
I saved the old page, and it's accessible via the "Portal" link at the
top of the new main page. I may clean it up some, but I'll keep all
the links. And the "Web Design" link at the top of the new page leads
to a page with all the web design links. I wouldn't totally
abandon you.
