Philadelphia, PA

Ah, nature.  Lexi and I drove up to CT for the week.  We stayed at the Lake House and family came by every day to visit, swim and eat.  We had such a wonderful time.  Every day was packed with relaxing and breathing.  I gave Lexi a little tour of NW CT, which is just beautiful this time of year, so lush.  We had a picnic and nap at Topsmeade.  Art took us out on the pontoon boat to the deep end of the lake where we lazily swam hours at a time, napped in the heavy sunlight on the boat and cooled ourselves with chilled Sam Adams.  A couple friends made an appearance for a swim and visit.  And we had family dinners every night.  What a great time.  Thank goodness for a break.  We certainly needed it.  Lexi and I took 1-2 hour naps every afternoon.

I've decided this week to begin taking my own little steps, and stating them in my blogs to be sure I follow them.   My little step this week is to get more rest.  I haven't been sleeping well these past few weeks because of many different reasons, but I've decided every time I get a chance to take a nap I will.  Actually, perhaps right now is a superb time.  Be right back.  ;)

The night before I drove into Philly I spent in NYC with Brandon.  I arrived pretty late, but there was a spot waiting for the Kashi mobile a block away and Brandon was home from rehearsal.  (His show opens pretty darn soon!)  http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140704-Rent-Tony-Winner-Wilson-Jermaine-Heredia-Cast-in-New-Comedy-Tales-from-the-Tunnel
We had a lovely breakfast at a local diner and I hopped in the car to head down to Philly.

The event went pretty well.  As usual, it was superbly hot!  The heat has been following us everywhere.  It's pretty miserable.  It was over 100 degrees on Sunday.  Every weekend so far, I've gotten home unbelievably dehydrated and dizzy with exhaustion.  Functioning as a regular human being is out of the question.  I'm sure I'd be pretty funny to watch.  This summer has been super hard on us.  No kidding global warming!  Oh gosh!  Tommy informed me that 86-89 degrees people get angry and 90 plus people just don't care anymore.  Once I had this awareness, I watched as the temperature rose.  The day started at 10am with temperatures already at 86.  The first 2 hours people were pretty angry.  It takes us an hour to open, and people were walking in to soon.  We'd ask them to come back at 11 when we were open and they'd sort of snarl at us.  Haha.  We were having generator problems because the heat was so extraordinary the genies didn't know how to handle it.  So, since we had a couple quick computer glitches, people were pretty upset.  No patience.  A few minutes later the temperature was over 90 degrees and people literally started functioning like cattle.  They went and did anything we told them to without a question or thought.  No sign of emotion or interest.  It was amazing.  I couldn't believe it.  The heat is a powerful thing.    Abbey - don't move down south.  It's too hot!!!

We're headed to Minnesota next, where there are hurricanes, tornadoes and floods in the works.  Oh, this summer just keeps getting more and more exciting, at least weather-wise it does.  I wonder how this affects our behaviors as humans.  Not just from the heat, but the negative energy the sky is spitting at us and the strength of the burning sun cutting through our thinning ozone layer.  I imagine more than we think.