A Summer Day + a meme

Well, our humidity wave hit today. Suddenly it is Summer, despite the part where there is still a statistical danger of frost. I deserve a trophy for not allowing myself to consider turning on the A/C today. But who needs a trophy when you've got Rita's? A nice refreshing lemon water ice is the perfect way to reward one's self for surviving insane humid heat. (Although Mr Renn prefers mango - pish posh somebody needs to shave)

Also I was tagged by the hairy shoe fairy to share 7 things that you may not know about me. This is harder than it sounds, considering my broad and inconsistent readership of people who do and don't know me in real life.

So um, sorry if some of you already knew some of this.

1. I have a chronic runny nose. Between allergies and colds, my nose just gets this momentum going and forgets to take breaks. My parents would probably blame this on my over-use of those nose-drop thingies as a teenager. (Although maybe I was using them because I already had this problem....) It was just too embarassing to have to sniffle at school and I had a thing about blowing my nose in front of people. Um, after delivering a baby and experiencing what it feels like to not care who sees any part of me being gross, I am over that thing. So we go through a lot of tissues at my house.

2. (only about me indirectly and ancestrally...) Sir O is partly named after my Great Grandfather that I never met. He was a fireman and he was born in Dalton in Furness (sp?) England. I've been there, and I saw the church where he was christened and where his parents were married. Cool.

3. I have Hess eyebrows. No amount of time or energy devoted to them seems to make them manageable. And Oliver looks to have inherited them. Sad but true.

4. I am addicted to color, and cannot seem to find balance in my wardrobe or my home because I really struggle with the whole neutral basics fundamental background thing. The only neutral I have in abundance is black, which is rather un spring-and-summery don't you think?

5. I have a reputation for reading a lot, but to be perfectly honest my reading attention span has been dwindling since I turned 20. Now that I have mommy brain I seem to require either lots of pretty pictures or really arresting use of language to keep me hanging in there until the end.

6. I hate talking on the phone. Like it could probably be considered a phobia kind of hate. Even to people I like, or love. Hate hate hate it. Heart sinks when the phone rings. Heart implodes when I have to make a phone call. But I sure do love mail!

7. I have not worn a watch since I was 4 months pregnant with Oliver and my watch started hurting my wrist. Haven't really missed it.