I am fairly sure that I can say, with authority, that it is TOO DAMN HOT.  As evidence I offer up my unhappy face at being too warm:

And I’m going to follow that up with the makeshift office that I have created in our bedroom:

That is the foot of our bed (likey the ikea bedspread?) and one of the end tables from the living room set up in front of Bert (the portable air conditioner) and a fan.  Bert is set at 70.  I am only just now starting to feel cooled off.  Incidentally that is West Wing on in the background though I feel that I should be honest and tell you that, while it will always be one of my favorite shows, it is just not doing it for me today.  That might have something to do with the fact that I am tired and cranky and retaining water and too hot.  Aaron Sorkin himself could show up to perform soliloquoys from his show and I think I would still be like “duuuude.  Go awayyyy.  I have no patience for you!”  (after I finished  freaking out at Aaron Sorkin teleporting into our apartment of course.)

Next week the temperature is supposed to go down into the mid seventies/low eighties and I am beyond ready for this.  I know that I complain every winter about how much I want it to be warmer but I do not mean “over 100 degrees” warm.  I mean “high 60s/mid 70s warm.”  The kind of warm where you can still wear jeans and oxfords with a regular t-shirt and the sun feels happy and cheerful, not “I am going to shine on you so hard you feel like you’re being pushed through the concrete while your brain catches on fire with my forcefulness!”  So yeah.  I’m a picky S.O.B.  And right now, I’m okay with that.  Seriously folks, part of the appeal for Will and I about the Portland area was that it was supposed to be milder weathered than Roseburg.

I have been trying to get work done all day since I spent Monday (and yesterday as it turned out) doing wedding stuff and Will’s sister is going to be here for at least part of tomorrow.  It looks like I will be working through the weekend, but that is okay because our plans are to camp out here in the bedroom and wait for the temperature outside to lower back down to something more reasonable.

In other news (possibly the most abused phrase on this blog), I have decided that I am going to redesign this site after the wedding.  I’m not going to relaunch it like I did last summer but I am going to overhaul the design and the sidebars and I am seriously considering doing the entire design by myself.  From scratch.  From my brain.  Which is kind of terrifying because I? have no idea how to do that.  This comes mostly from adopting blog templates and having to tweak them within an inch of their lives to look and behave the way I want them to.  So… does anybody know of a good “build your own WordPress theme” tutorial that I can start looking at once I’ve gotten caught up with work?