Today was hard

[wiseheart]

I had to get up at 6.30am to get the grocery shopping done while it wasn't quite as hot yet. I left at 21 degrees and got home less than an hour later at 26 - which doesn't sound much, but hauling the shopping bags home while the sun burned in my back was no fun.

Then it was Mum's shower day, which is a relief in hot weather, because I get wet from head to toe when she's taking a shower. So, basically, I had two showers within as many hours! ;))

We also had laundry day, and while poor Louise is doing her best, it's always a nervous guesswork whether she'd be willing to start or not. We're trying to hold tight to her, but it's just a matter of time...

No cooking today, but I had to process the carrots that were on offer at Lidl; I grated half of them, which was a torture by 34 degrees, since we don't have a food processor, so I had to do it by hand. The other half got chopped and both parts frozen. The grated part will go into a carrot and hazelnut cake when my friends (hopefully) will come to a small party around the end of the month.

Other than that, we were basically dead (Mum did two rounds of washing-up and made breadcrumbs from some old rolls) and took nice, long naps. I got a bit of writing done, for which I'm grateful. Tomorrow promises to be awfully hot again, but at least I won't have to leave the house. Thank God for small blessings.

*Speaking of writing: I've been reading a long and fairly interesting Enterprise fanfic in the last two days, but the atrocious grammar killed most of the enjoyment. How come that my stories get torn apart for a single typo in 15 chapters, but the so-called native speakers don't seem to be able to make a difference between "there" and "their" and even "they're", or "your" and "you're" and all the similar stuff?

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. I find heat unbearable

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And it just seems to have no end this summer.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I love heat. In summer. When it's supposed to be hot. I know, easy to say, when you live in the country and have a pool to jump into. Only that I read in the dailies that here we had only ten days above thirty. Two of them in April, which definitely isn't summer. And not even one tropical night...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The only pool I'm bathing day in, day out is the sweat. This insane heat on 53 square metres of concrete is not for human beings.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Ouch. {{{hugs}}}

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Yes, even over 25 degrees is awful, and then it just gets worse. And I say this as an Australian, where hot summers are the agonising norm.
People’s grammar, ugh! I may have a touch of OCD or maybe just prissiness, but some mistakes make my eyes bleed. The replacement of ‘have’ with ‘of’ as in “I could have” instead of “I could have”. Yes, I’ve seen this more than once. I could scream. The misuse of literallly. It hurts. Describing a traffic jam as “the streets were literally frozen”. Oh no they weren’t, not unless ice is involved! And the weird habit of turning an adjective into a noun by adding ‘ness’ to the end. I actually saw someone write ‘beautifulness” instead of beauty. My soul began to die.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

You got a lot of stuff done. As for the fanfic...I have long since given up on trying to understand the vagaries of fandom likes and hates.

[meathiel]

One can only open the windows here early in the morning. When I went to bed at midnight last night it was still 25°.
Another 2 days of this forecast ... boohoo!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I can imagine how painful it must be for a native speaker. My eyes bleed from it, and I'm just an ignorant foreigner bit barely 3 years' worth of English lessons; and that was nearly 30 years ago!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

IKR? It's the same here. And if we open the windows in the evening, we still have to sit in darkness, otherwise the damned bugs takes the light as an invitation.

We'll have temperatures in the high 30s all next week. I really don't know how we're gonna survive it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone can understand that. It's just depressing.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, it was a fairly shitty day.