The Heat & Le Tour

It's hot. Too hot to make jewelry or do taxes, both of which I need to do. To hot to work on either of my websites, which I also need to do. I hate living in a desert without any real air conditioning to speak of, in car or home. :( It was well into triple digits today; at 6:30 pm, it was still 99.5 inside the house, and that was when it had cooled off a LOT. :( When it is this hot, I feel all languid and useless and want nothing more than to sleep. If I must be awake, I don't want to do anything more active than lying on the couch in shorts and a t-shirt, sucking on a popsicle and watching the Tour de France, which I dvr religiously every morning at 5:30 (or earlier, if there's extended coverage). The Tour is handsdown my favorite sport to watch, and the only one I really follow, since I saw Lance Armstrong race in person, back in 2003. There's nothing like standing on the Champs-Elysees on final race day, as the stage ends and the riders sweep up and down the avenue, surrounded by screaming throngs of people, who not only cheer their favorite rider, but every rider who goes by, because they appreciate how much effort the race is taking and love the riders for having the heart to do what we can not. And believe me, until you've actually walked up one of the mountains those guys ride up for kilometer after kilometer, you do not have quite the proper appreciation of how thoroughly insane they are for doing it and how much work it really is. But me, I've done that. I've cheered Lance in person for 2 stages, and sweated it out with french television for the full stage day after day, glued to the screen, laughing at the goofy cartoons the resident cartoonist does for the camera, freaking out when Lance fell, standing on the side of a mountain constantly asking my friend "where's Lance now?" because I don't speak french well enough to follow the insanely loud race commentary. I am heartbroken not to be there this year. :(

At any rate.

I have some lovely rhyolite just begging to be used and a plant stick to get into the mail. I have earrings and pendulums to make, not to mention bracelets, which are woefully lacking in variety on the site.

The California Gift Show opens this week, and I'd really like to go, but unfortunately will not be able to make it. That means no new stones to speak of until January. I hate that. They have great briolettes at the Gift Show, and I was hoping to pick up some cool stuff like morganite, kunzite, green beryl, and some aquamarine and garnet briolettes or teardrops. Also some madeira citrine and lemon quartz. But I have blown my budget for the year, so no pretty rocks for me. At least, at the moment. If, however, a certain person I know who lives in OC wanted to go just to nose around and collect business cards, I would be happy to go and do that...

Anyway, I am tired and fighting off a flu bug, so I am going to bed, now.

And um, Go, Lance! A l'Arc de Triomphe, at vite, monsieur!

bon journee,
jennette