11:41 AM
Weather God, it feels so much better today!

The last couple weeks here have been oppressively humid and hot, while we usually get this during the summer, May isn't usually like this, but we've had 90-95 degree weather with really high humidity which puts the "feels like" range above 100 degrees. And even at night, it's felt like it's about 80 degrees so no relief even after dark.

I am sooooo affected by the weather (and I live in the wrong state) and it's made me just a slug, don't want to go out, don't want to do anything, just too damn hot to move. And it's been really affecting my mood too, people up north get SAD in the winter, I get it in the summer but it's even worse when summer starts in May. We went from cool fronts at the beginning of May to oppressive August-like heat ten days later and it's been awful.

Last night about 1 am, the wind started blowing, the breeze was a bit cooler and felt really good. And then -- just about 2 am, as I was going to bed, it started to rain! I had gone outside to see how much cooler it was (the temp had dropped about ten degrees) and as I was standing there, I could hear the rain start to fall and feel a drop here and there and it started raining more and more. I left the windows open in the living room so it would cool off overnight and god is it wonderful today! Cool, about 70ish, much lower humidity and just really really nice.

And I have this huge smile on my face! And I WANT to go out and do stuff, lordy, it's so WONDERFUL!