It's hard to believe we are already over half way through the month of June and on our way to July. Everyone tells us that July is when things really start to warm up around here and all of the forecasts say that we are in for a very hot summer. So far things have stayed primarily in the 70s and 80s. Even when it has gotten up to 90 or so it doesn't feel as warm as I thought it would. It's the days where it is going to get up into the tripple digits that concern me. At least it is dry here and cools off at night. When it gets really bad you just stay inside and turn on the air.



Don and I had a pretty good weekend for the most part. We didn't get a tremendous amount of stuff done around the house - didn't get to the laundry, or the groceries, or any more unpacking. We did however, get some important chores done outside of the house. Don and I spent the majority of our morning at the DMV getting our new California Drivers' Licenses and car registrations. It was quite the zoo with the amount of people coming through the offices - but actually more organized than I thought it would be. It took us about two and a half hours but now we are done and don't have to go back. My picture on my new Driver's license by the way, is AWFUL! Really really bad. She didn't tell me when she was going to take the picture so I was totally unaware and unprepared and the flash was blinding so I like like an addict in a police lineup.



After our Saturday morning at the DMV, we mostly lazed the rest of the day. Don tried out his new computer game - City of Heroes - and I watched one of my netflix movies - Tristan and Isolde. It was one of those romantic star-crossed lovers Braveheart style movies. I didn't really care for it but the cinemetography was beautiful. And now I can send it back and get something else. Saturday night was the first night sitting around the house where we realized, 'gee, it would be nice if we knew a few more people down here.' Not that we haven't had the most amazing time catching up with our few friends down here that we have not seen in a long time, but they have lives and other obligations and we can't exactly call them every night to do something. Plus, even though we were feeling a bit social, we were also still feeling like quite the hermits and didn't want to go out. That's when it's nice to have about 20 friends so you can call all of them up and somebody is likely to feel like coming to your place instead of having to get up off our lazy butts and go someplace else. So we did in the end finally get out of the house but not to go and visit other people. We went to In-N-Out burger for and did the Fast Food thing California Style. The burgers were as tasty as I remembered them even though I hadn't been to an In-N-Out in probably at least 5 years. I didn't care for their fries but I suppose that is a good thing.

After dinner we went to check out a mall that I discovered was in our neighborhood the other day on my way home from work. It was a decent sized mall, two main anchor stores (Macy's and Bloomingdales) and about 50 other smaller stores inside the mall. The best part about the mall is that it is somewhat hidden and out of the way. I don't think a lot of people know about it and the parking even is not so bad. We didn't stay long or do any actual shopping, we just kind of wanted to see what was there since it was getting late and Camille and I had plans to go shopping together on Sunday anyway.

When we got back to the house we decided that it was the dogs' turn to get out of the house and took them for their first walk around the neighborhood. There are quite a bit of people in the neighborhood with Dogs of their own so it turned out to be a good way to meet some of our neighbors. We came across about 4 other people walking their dogs all of whom stopped to chat and introduce themselves. So it is a very friendly neighborhood and it was nice to see other women out walking their dogs alone at night. It is a good indicator that our neighborhood is pretty safe. Cordy and Seumas also had a great time of course. We did meet one other wiener dog named Allison whom Seumas of course had an instant crush on. We want to try to get the dogs out in the neighborhood a little bit more so that they can get more relaxed in their surroundings and not feel as threatened.

Unbeknownst to us, the dogs would have their second opportunity to get out of the house. Sunday night Don and I were getting ready to go to bed when I found that the dogs had knocked over one of the garbage cans and eaten some very toxic and dangerous items. So after calling the Animal Emergency Clinic for advise we had to take both dogs down and get their stomachs pumped - even though we suspected it was all Cordy - and the evidence in the end showed it definitely was - we had no way to know for sure so poor Seumas had to get his stomach pumped as well. Luckily we caught them before things had started digesting and there didn't appear to be any permanent damage. The whole adventure cost us about well over $300 and we got to start off the week grumpy with a lack of sleep. Needless to say we have found a new place for the garbage can secure from stupid wiener dogs who eat gross things.