Buzzing in My Head/EDITED TO ADD

Some random thoughts going through my mind and some various actions happening around me...

1. The heat has finally come in earnest. Well, sorta. We had a record-breaking 14 days of sub-100 degree days to start the month, the first time that has happened since 1913. Then it immediately soared to 105 for two days...before becoming cloudy with temps in the 90s again today. Don't get me wrong - I love the cooler temps, but my skin is really freaking out.
2. What is the deal with people not washing their hands after using the bathroom? Yuck. I had to follow a woman out of the ladies' room during a break in the music camp concert Friday night, and she hadn't washed her hands. And the door was one I had to pull to open. Thankfully, there was a towel dispenser right by the door.
3. I think I should have taken Travis and his lady Pam with me to my daughter's dance recital this past Saturday. He would not have had been playing on his Nintendo DS or reading the news on his Blackberry as certain male members of my family were doing to pass the time. And for them I paid $12 per ticket? The ten-year-old I can understand, but the 48 year-old should have known better. Dammit. I must admit, though, it was getting pretty annoying watching seemingly endless lyrical routines to mindless generic female ballads; I was much more entertained by the tap routines (and of course, my daughter's class which is a jazz/musical theater group). The hip hop groups were fun, and there was this one teen boy who danced a solo who blew me away. Wow. Talk about height and stretch on a Russian split.
   
4. As much as I love watching my daughter dance, I really swell with pride when I hear her sing. Damn, that girl has a voice, and her ear for music has really gotten tuned.
   
5. I love my now annual beach vacations to Coronado, but for next year, I'm thinking we need a change of scenery. Unfortunately, that probably means getting on an airplane, and you know how I feel about airplanes. Sigh. Still, I'm envious of my friend Laura's upcoming trip to San Francisco, and I would love to go to Seattle, too. Memphis is calling me (though sooner than next year), and Washington, DC too, but I must not forget that a trip to Ohio next June is probably a given since my parents-in-law will be celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. So many choices...
6. Trying to get my ten-year-old to do summer reading for his gifted class is like trying to get my 13-year-old to do the dishes. Both take a lot of cajoling, needling, wheedling, and whining. If only the books could be fashioned into a Wii game...
7. It's only mid-June, and we've already taken our one summer trip. Dammit.
8. A few weeks ago, I read an article about a teen in Maine who was denied his high school diploma because while crossing the stage to shake hand with the principal (or superintendent, I can't remember which), he took a bow and blew a kiss to his mother. When asked if he should to be given his diploma, the young man replied that he should because he had worked hard for it and deserved it. The principal/superintendent told him, no, he wasn't going to receive the diploma because he had broken the rules of conduct for graduation which stated that there would be no "fooling around" during the ceremony. Since when is showing love and gratitude TOWARDS ONE'S OWN MOTHER considered "fooling around?" Jackass school district. Would that my kid shows that much public affection toward me when they are 18.
9. Addition made Friday, June 25, 6:17 MST - so that makes three: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and now Whacko Jacko...er, Michael Jackson. That was quick.
   
10. Um....that's it. That's all I got. Whatchyou got?