I haven’t posted anything the entire month of July. This would be because July is the worst month of the year, and I would just be one giant ball of complaining. Be glad I spared you from having to read all of that. Life would be so much better if I could go from June straight into August. At least this July is almost over.

I will try to keep my complaining to a minimum here, so instead, I will mention only happy, good things.

First, check out my website! I know most of you read this on lj or on google reader so…go look! Go look! JenMcCain.net. (And let me know if anything looks weird on your computer.) It’s new and pretty! I bought a package full of digital scrapbooking goodies to put together the header and the background. I probably shouldn’t have discovered those, because now I want to buy all of them. I’d never even heard of such a thing until yesterday. Two Peas in a Bucket is where I got them from. And they were cheap. I’m not at all interested in doing any scrapbooking, but I do want to use all of the cute things for different wordpress layouts. I spent a lot of yesterday and today goofing around with photoshop playing with all the stuff and downloading new fonts.

Yesterday, I watched Stranger than Fiction. If you haven’t watched it. You should. It was cute.

Strawberry cream cheese is the best. I also have also discovered that I really like blackberries.

There are a lot of people around here that have Boston Terriers. Every time I got outside, it seems like I see one. AND I WANT ONE. They are so cute! I miss dogs. I never get to hug a dog.

IN OTHER NEWS: The Tour de France is over at last! Hooray! Hooray! Now we can go back to our regularly scheduled viewings of Northern Exposure, and readings of Harry Potter.

I think this year I will make the TARDIS cake for my birthday. My TARDIS baking was postponed indefinitely two years ago due to hurricanes. Let’s hope I don’t have that problem this year. Although, really, I wouldn’t mind some rain…and clouds. I hate the sun.

Chris is reading HARRY POTTER! And he’s blogging about it. Chris’s bog He’s reading a chapter a day. He hates Harry Potter, but I keep telling him he has to read more than the first two books to form a informed opinion on the series. I hope he changes his mind and decides he loves it. If not, at least he will then know who all the characters are. (If he finishes the series. I’m not sure he will. He’s already discouraged and he’s only read the first chapter of the first book. In exchange I am reading his favorite Star Wars books, but I haven’t started it yet.)

There was a storm here today! And some crazy lightening! There was a huge flash of lightening outside that was so close and loud that it made a car alarm go off, and me scream, and Darwin run. My mom even heard it and she was in Shreveport, but she was also on the phone with me at the time. I do really really really love the rain though. I wish it would rain every day until October.

I have shrunk all of my shorts. So now I have nothing to wear. I have solved this problem by wearing pajamas a lot and occassionally dresses. And today my blue jeans decided to rip across the knee so I now almost have some shorts. Woo!

I. hate. Texas.

It’s a good kind of hate though. It feels like the same hate that I had for the girls I went to school with when I was in 8th grade. It’s an 8th grade hate. Pure and uncomplicated.

HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY:

1) Traffic. I absolutely 100% refuse to drive on the interstate. It is NOT going to happen. I’ve also discovered that I don’t even like riding in the car with someone else driving on the interstate to go places. I’m completely convinced that when we get in the middle of all of this traffic with people throwing on their brakes and switching lanes and going a thousand mph that I’m going to be killed in a firey crash. Going places without the interstate is possible, but it is very time consuming and when I give it any thought at all, I always decide that it just really isn’t worth the effort…which brings me to the number 2 reason:
1) The whole DFW area is too big. It’s just too big and too spread out and there are too many people. I just looked it up. The population of the entire area is 6,447,615. That is just way too many people. I hate people.
2) IT IS UGLY. That is a very short sentence and reason why but it is incredibly important. There’s just no outside here.
3) It is hotter than Shreveport. NO REALLY, it is. HOTTER THAN SHREVEPORT. The forecast consists of endless days with 99-100 degree temperatures. I have moved to a city HOTTER than Shreveport!
4) Apparently, I get much crazier in the head when I don’t have various family members and friends to keep me entertained while I am stuck indoors during my summer prison sentence. So me + living in a hotter than Shreveport temperatures with no one to play Scrabble with and no dogs to hug and various goings on (stupid family drama and whatnot to occupy my thoughts)…means the summer is 10,000,000x worse than most.
5) Since I have been here, I have applied for a lot of jobs, contacted a lot of legal recruiting agencies. A LOT of them. And I have gotten exactly zero responses from any of them. WTF!

I am coping by carrying around an atlas and daydreaming about far away places and rewatching the entire series of Northern Exposure.

Here’s a list of good things:
1) Living with Chris is fun!
2) Our apartment is pretty!
3) The neighborhood where we live is quiet.

I don’t wish I hadn’t moved, because I have learned very important things! Like….I hate it here. I wouldn’t have known that if we hadn’t moved. And now I know that 6.4 million people is way too many people. I require a city smaller than that. And I require one that is cooler since I’m not capable of living in a hot city that isn’t Shreveport. Those are all important things.

In 101 days it will be October and the weather will be cooler and I’ll get to go see the dinosaur footprints in Glenrose, TX. That will be fun. And I’ll go to the butterfly house!

But even winter and cold weather isn’t going to change my mind about Texas. Some times I just know things, and this is one of those things that I just know.

AND THAT IS MY LOVELY SUMMER! How’s yours?

*facepalms*