  It was darn hot today! Got up to 95F! Dang Summer! Thankfully, this state is famous for cooling off in the evenings and at 8:30p.m., it's down to 73F. Of course, it will take the house a bit longer to cool that much. We slept in this morning until 8:30 a.m. J had to work overtime and was gone by 5 a.m. After we woke up (R was in my bed), we played with the dog a bit, then got up for breakfast and to get ready to go to the Library Summer Reading Program Kick-off. Got there 5 minutes after it started and it was pretty packed. We had to park on the street and walk in. But R had fun jumping on the Castle moonwalk thingy, doing a 'balloon between the knees' race, checking out a fire truck and EMT ambulance and making a couple of crafts. But the big thing today was......She got her OWN library card!!! When she was 2 years old, I asked at a different library we used to go to and they didn't issue cards to kids until they were 8 or 12 (I can't recall which).
But one of the crafts today was making a beaded necklace that you clipped your library card to. So I asked and sure enough, she got one! She was really excited about that. So we checked out about 16 books and then left, because we'd been out in the heat and we were both thirsty and tired.
Oh, and when the fire truck first got there, she was afraid to go over to it. At first I couldn't figure out why, but then I remembered about 2 or 3 years ago she went to a pizza place with J to pick up some dinner and while he was paying, she was walking around looking at stuff. She saw a red square on the wall and pulled it. Of course, it was the fire alarm. J scolded her and the people at the store said the fire engine had to come, even if they called to say what happened as it was the law. J made her stay and wait for the firemen. So she thought it would be some horrible thing and was crying. Anyway, the firemen came in and one came over and spoke softly to her, telling her it was okay and just not to do that again unless there was a real fire.
Of course, I'm sure touching one of those will be the last thing she ever thinks of again - lol. Then, a few months later, we came walking out of a grocery store when the firemen were out with there boots for Labor Day (for anyone outside the U.S., to raise funds for the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy, the firemen collect money from people in their fire boots by standing on street corners and going out to cars when the lights turn red, standing outside grocery stores and other stores, standing outside the fire houses, etc.).
Anyway, as we came out, this fireman came toward us saying, "I know you! I remember you from the pizza place when you pulled the alarm! " He was being very nice, but R freaked out - lol. I'm sure because it made her remember that scary situation.
But when she saw the firemen were giving out little plastic fire hats and badges ("Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! ") she decided to go over and they were very nice, of course. Okay, I can't say, read or think of the word badges without that line - "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! " coming to my mind. It's from the movie, Blazing Saddles. Jay disputed it with me, so one day I looked up the sentence on the internet and found this site: www.darryl.com/badges/moviesindex.shtml Now, the funny thing about this is, similar lines have been used in a bunch of movies. In Blazing Saddles, it's said by a Mexican man joining a posse, so when I say it, I use my best Mexican accent. But J always would ask me if I knew what movie it was from. I'd tell him yeah, Blazing Saddles and he'd say, "No. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. " Well, the line I do was Blazing Saddles, but I had to prove it to Mr. You Know Nothing Unless You Can Prove It Because As Your Husband I Must Know More Than You. LOL. Anyway, all the lines, just about, are with Mexican accents and most are said by Mexican characters in the movies.
It's funny. Watch the clips, if you can, on that site. Here I sit, hot and tired, with this extraordinarily messy house and my brother coming from Colorado Springs tomorrow. I keep telling myself I need to clean some. Just can't seem to get myself to do it. But, I can't let him see this pit. So, I'll do a little tonight and then get up early tomorrow and do some more until the downstairs isn't too horrible. Once I'm working (on Monday!!! ), I'll get a schedule going and be able to keep things up better. Oh, the temp here on my computer just dropped to 69F. Thankfully! I can feel it beginning to cool off in the house, too. We have the fans going, pulling in the cooler air, too. R needs me to read to her tonight. Got to go. 
