June 26

How surreal that Farrah Fawcett, icon of the 70's and Michael Jackson, icon of the 80's passed away on the same day. I had a poster of Michael in my bedroom when I was 13 from the Thriller years. I remember watching the Beat it video trying to memorize the dance moves so we could do them ourselves. My uncle Jerry had the famous Farrah poster in the red bathing suit in his room for years. I think Michael's death was due to the abuse of painkillers, and his perpetually being underweight his entire adult life, but we will see.

June 24

I wonder if I should be worried about the headaches I've been getting for the last couple of days. Usually, a headache at the end of my cycle is normal and will go away with a couple of Advils, but it's been several days and I don't know what could be causing them, other than the heat & pollen. Last night at 10:00 I broke down and took a leftover painkiller I had in my medicine cabinet, by the time I went to bed I did feel better. It might be worth the expense to install a ceiling fan in my condo, since heat rises. My neighbor loaned me her handyman last Friday and he nailed down the loose floorboards in my kitchen in less than 45 seconds, one less thing I have to worry about in my condo. I was able to repair the broken pipe under the bathroom sink by myself, so I'm pretty happy at the moment. I have some pretty nice neighbors, including another lesbian in the basement who noticed my gay pride bumper sticker and asked if I was going to Pride this weekend, which I thought had been moved to October. I'll have to look into it.

June 18

Tonight I can pick up my huge Pink Floyd Collections wall print, it's all ready and dry mounted. I am finally finished with all the painting in my place, and have nailed my Michelangelo print over the mantel, I think I'm finished. The only thing left is buying moulding & a dinette table, but since I have no money for that right now, it will just have to wait. This upcoming Saturday I'm going to a pet store open house to look at some rescued chihuahuas for adoption, at the end of the Summer when the temperature drops, I might take one in as a foster parent. If Luci can get along with them, I could even adopt. Now that I own my place, and have a larger area for a small dog to run around in, I think it could work. Besides, I really don't have any neighbors that would hear yipping, so I don't have to worry about disturbing anyone. Tomorrow it's supposed to get up to 97 degrees, so I might leave the AC on low, auto so it will kick on for about 10 minutes once an hour for Luci. I will test it out tonight to see how well that works.

June 9

I don't think this Summer is going to be as extreme as it was a couple of years ago when we had triple degree heat. The average temp during June-July is early 90's, so I think me & Luci will be okay. I bought an indoor digital thermostat to see how hot it really is in the condo. Last night with the patio door half open and the fan blowing it was 85 degrees, which is comfortable. This morning it was 81 degrees, I just need to see how hot it gets at 3:00 or so which is probably the hottest time of the day.

Raising the Bar is turning out to be a pretty good show, now that CSI Miami is in reruns, I think I'll keep watching it. I'm glad Zach got that mop top cut, the 90's have been over for some time now. Poker tonight at 7:00, then laundry. Fun, fun.

June 4

I bought a Snuggie last night, it was on sale at Target. I know it will be December before I'll have any use for it, but I thought if I waited until then it might be twice as much. Perhaps I'll go to a Snuggie pub crawl like they had in Chicago a little while back. We came in second place last night at Trivia and won $25 toward our check, which means I almost ate for free, that's always cool. Some nights the questions are so ridiculous we end up washing out early, but last night they were pretty easy, only 2 sports questions. What's up with Eminem? He looks like roadkill backed over twice or something. It also looks like he aged 10 years in the last ten months, must have been all the pills he's been abusing. Another overrated, undertalented rapper that likes to stir up shit.

June 1

I have a window unit AC in my bedroom, but I'm not sure it was such a good idea. For one thing, it's HUGE. It took two of us to lug it up the stairs and mount it in the window. For another, it's tipping out the back end because of it's weight and I don't have a mounting bracket or anything. It sits very snugly in the window, I don't really think it will fall out, but I am a little concerned about the strain on my window for the next 3 months. Perhaps I should just buy a portable on Craigslist. In the meantime, I moved the fan back to the bedroom during the day, since that's where Luci has camped out for most of the time. I'm not really sure why, it's at least 10 degrees cooler in the living room and there's the balcony window to look out of. Now that I got the room darkening curtains I think it will be a little more comfortable for her.