I heard that phrase on the news last night to describe the weather here in VA this week. It’s been over 85 nearly 90 in many places all week- from what I heard on the national news it’s not just VA it’s the whole Eastern Seaboard!

I’ve said before that I like the warmer (even unseasonably) weather. Of course I’m easy to please- our 7 day forecast shows ‘cooler’ weather from Wednesday further & none of the daytime temperatures are below 70. That’s the sort of October I like – not 40 & 50 degree temps like they have in MA where I’m from.

As I told someone I was talking to on the phone at work yesterday- that’s why I live here & not in MA (well- one of the reasons anyway) the longer fall & spring make for a shorter winter & I’m all for that. I don’t like snow or ice in the least. Enough snow to cover the ground just before Christmas & then it can go away again for another year is how I feel about snow!

Yes I’ve been reduced to blogging about the weather. What is wrong with me?

There just isn’t that much going on right now. I am waiting for Halloween- waiting for my life to pick up- waiting for child support to start kicking in like I was assured on labor day it would (not holding my breath on that one really) I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop on the whole ex thing because I’m sure he’s got something up his sleeve.

Of course I should be cleaning the house- I should be making the invitations for the Halloween thing. I should be working on the fortunes for the party too- I have a bunch of them which I found in books & online- I have to put them all on small pieces of paper though- I should be hanging laundry on the line since what’s out there is probably dry.

Instead I’m alternately writing – reading emails & trying to make the mp3 player on my phone work correctly.  (I got the cord I needed- when I tried to make it work before everything seemed fine- I was able to load songs onto it just fine -I’ve had prior experience with my plain mp3 player- but when I went to play the songs back the phone would shut down over & over again.

I was messing with settings on the phone for other reasons earlier today & found a place where I have to check mark what I want saved on the card so I checked music & started trying to load songs again. Time will tell how that goes – I can say the phone is slower to take information than my regular mp3 is. I can drag one song onto the display & then even if I wait 30 seconds to a minute I still have to wait while the next song I drag over loads.

Going to see a friend who is moving out of state after the kids get home from school (& I get the laundry on the line changed out) I had loaned her some books & she’s giving them back before she leaves. Though we don’t see each other all that much (- considering we’re less than 10 miles away from each other- we do a lot more emailing & IM’ing than actual face to face visiting-) it will still seem like a colder place without her around the area.

I wonder often at my own lack of initiative on things like seeing friends. Chrissea has to call me to do something like hang out & play Scrabble or other things. I never start things. Only react. I’m not sure why that is though. I certainly think of enough things to start! I just rarely follow through. I suppose I’m a bad friend that way.

My mouse has died & I’m unsure I’ll be able to do anything more on this (including putting it up) without a mouse! I really liked this mouse too because it was ir & had no actual physical ball to mess with. The problem with one like this though is- when it’s gone it’s gone- I’ve unplugged & replugged it 5 times & it’s not coming back.

Well- when in doubt- reboot & sure enough I have my mouse back- I figured it was something else when the scanner (which is plugged into the other usb port) wouldn’t work either. What a relief!

The phone works. I’m very happy about that! Now I have to load on more songs! The card is supposed to be able to hold 100s of them! I know someone who is of the opinion that if it doesn’t spin when it plays music it’s evil. I can’t agree though I do think that mp3 players & Ipods etc. put the focus on single songs rather than entire albums by a musician.