Monday

Monday morning.

I’m a bit upset with myself right now.   Last week sometime I received my rent check for my condo.  (I own both a house and a condo – I couldn’t sell the condo when I moved so I rented it).    I remember standing there with the envelope going “well at least I got this check” (I was looking for the 2^nd insurance check for the roof – which I have not received yet).   I KNOW I resisted plunking it down on a misc pile of other mail.   I THOUGHT I put it in the important pile by the door – the one that included my trash bill.   I Merrily worked outside all weekend without a thought.   Then this morning I decide to grab it so I could put it in the bank.  Or at least locate it.   I also needed to locate my AAA bill.   Well I found all the AAA info – no bill.  I found the trash bill but nothing else.   Frantic I looked in every mail pile I have (ok ok so I’m way behind in filing).   

I KNOW I didn’t get it at the end of the week.  I remember checking the mail and seeing a magazine only one day – so I left it there.   The next day (Sat) I had the mag and another piece of mail that is just a statement.   So I know I didn’t get the check Fri or Sat.   My manager tends to send them out around the 10^th so I’m thinking I received it Tue or Wed.   But what the BEEP did I do with it?   It’s going to drive me NUTS now.    I wonder if it fell on the floor and got knocked under something by the cats.

I’m also missing my watch – I know I had it when I drove up to Longmont on Friday to buy dad’s gift certificate – so I most likely took it of Friday night.  But when I went to put it on Saturday, I couldn’t find it. 

I was even late to work this morning looking for stuff.    All I want to do right now is go home and sort through all the mail, look under the couch and loveseat and any other place I can think of. 

Sure I called AAA and found out how much I owe and set up the bill-pay payment.   But I really don’t want to have to call my manager and admit I lost his check.  Oh he’s a nice guy and I’ve been cashing checks over a year without a problem so you’d think at some point a check would get lost, either in the mail or just by me.  However it’s still embarrassing.   Not to mention that to be on the safe side he would have to put a stop payment on it – which if the bank charges him anything I’d insist come out of the check, which means I’d get less.   Not the end of the world but STILL.  I’d hate to do that and then find it crammed somewhere “safe” a month from now.   I REALLY REALLY want to find it. 

The other thing that is bugging me right now --- it could hit over 100 today.   Come on.  It’s JUNE.  Not July, Not August,  JUNE!.    In February we missed by a few inches being the wettest February ever.  But then after that  - just phsssssst.     Nothing.  Hardly anything.    March was the DRIEST March on record.   I can’t recall April.    In May I know there were several days of rain when I was on vacation  but that was pretty much it.   Now we are half way through June and we’ve just had a few Spitting storms.  Maybe one decent one.  (like ¼ of an inch or so.)    There were a few really good ones that hit south and east – and of course had tornados and hail.    Granted I know that we risk that… but it’s JUNE – May and June is T-storm season.  We are supposed to have rain almost EVERY DAY in the afternoon.   Now granted there is a slight chance… but only slight.  

Here is the 5 day forecast for my area in Colorado according to the weather channel:

Today: High 97 (a little less then what they are saying on the radio)  Chance of rain: 0%

Tuesday: High 95 Chance of rain: 0%

Wednesday:  High: 85  chance of rain: 0%

Thursday: High: 91  Chance of rain: 0%

Friday: High 96.   Chance of rain: 10%.

If I check the 10 day weather I get anywhere from 10-20% chance of rain and highs in the high 80s, low 90s.  That’s JULY weather.   

Lately the last few years we seem to be getting monsoon weather in August instead.  So when it’s supposed to be rainy it’s hot and dry.  When it’s supposed to be hot and dry it’s rainy.   It’s frustrating!   I can’t get my greens to grow.   Though I guess I should have planted them months ago.     Maybe I’ll end up with salad stuff in September. 

Posting this at lunch.