My first attempt

This is my first attempt at creating & maintaining an actual "blog" - yeah, sure - I have a "myspace", and a "friendster" account - I'm pretty sure I also have a livejournal page as well, I just never can remember my password or username and I thought maybe I would try again & use this as a medium to convey my thoughts and feelings - although that may not always be a good idea...

Some things about me:

I'm a 42 year old, married mother of 2 teenagers - my daughter is 17 & my son is 14. My daughter recently graduated from high school & my son will be entering 10th grade in the fall. We live in Frederick, MD - where we just bought a single family home a few months ago. I work as a secretary at a local firm, where I've worked for 5 years. I have 3 older brothers who all live here in Maryland, and a younger sister who lives near Boston (grrrr...why does she have to live so far away from me???). My mother also lives here in Frederick.

I just recently started taking college courses again, with hopes of earning at least a degree in something, as I'm tired of being a secretary. Don't take me the wrong way, there's nothing wrong with being a secretary - in fact, I make a pretty good living - but I just dont' feel "challenged" enough. I feel like there has to be a better way that I could contribute to the world, other than preparing trip itineraries, arranging traveling & registering people for a conference - hopefully I'll get that sorted out real soon!

I spend alot of my "free time" either at home, doing work around the house, shopping with my daughter or watching my son play soccer. I love to read - you name it, I'll read it - whether it's a newspaper, news magazine, romance novel, murder mystery, biography or what have you - I love reading anything & everything. I've been told that I can be quite humorous at times, although personally, I think I can be incredibly boring. I tend to be a bit on the shy side, until I feel comfortable and then I can be reallllllllllllllly long winded. I've also been told that I'm incredibly random - but that may just be an extension of my long windedness (is that really a word?).

Well enough about me already...

Today's subject is: The Heat! What in the world is going on? Yes, I know it's summer. Yes, I know we have the whole global warming thing going on, but really does it need to be this hot? The only way I'd want to be outside in this kind of heat for an extended period of time would be if most of my body was submerged underwater in a pool, lake, etc. It's too hot to work in the yard; it's too hot to sit out on my patio and eat dinner (let alone any meal); it's too hot to shoot baskets with my son; and it's too hot to do much of anything!

I guess I shouldn't complain really - if it were January or February right now, we could be experiencing sub freezing temperatures and blizzard like conditions - and who wants that? Which brings up something that's annoyed me the last several years - when there's a blizzard & we're buried in 2-3 feet of snow, occasionally my employer will decide maybe it's a better idea if we all take the day off as a "snow day". Why can't we do that in the summer? I mean really - if it's stinking hot outside, why can't we just have a "heat day"....