Read it and weep people, it’s only early May and here we are starting our first week plus run of 100º+ weather! Now sure that might sound terrible to you, but remember, it is a dry heat...

Actually the big bonus is really the lows, check them out - low to mid 70’s. That means you can sleep with no sheets on top of you, or sleep outside in the hammock that I might be shopping for right now (any hints - email me!). That means you wake up in the morning, and it’s nice and warm. It means the bathroom floor isn’t cold when you go to take a shower. It also means the pool is slowly warming up - yay!

And the only down side is that the late afternoon is a bit toasty, but at least for now I can still live in my boxers - sorry for that image. I just hope it cools down a bit before the end of the month when we have to start moving all our stuff over to our new condo. At least it’s only a few blocks away from where we are now, and my small pickup truck limits the amount of stuff I can realistically attempt to move in any one trip. At least a bit of physical work should help me lose my 10 American pounds... Now if I could just lose the other 20 American pounds I’d really be getting somewhere... like into tighter pants for a start! Damn you Chilli’s :-(

Speaking of moving we’ve been spending the month slowly selling more stuff on Craigslist. If you read our last couple of blog entries you’ll know we’re moving into a fantastic but tiny condo and there is no way all of our furniture would fit so we’ve been trying to pair down to the essentials, and make a little room for the occasional new piece ;-) Being British (we have very small houses over there), a fan of all things japanese (think origami like small living spaces, not schoolgirls... well OK them too) and a big reader of Dwell magazine (great article here on a couple living in a 426 sq.ft apartment) I think we’ll be OK in it, especially as we’re living outside more and more since we moved here.

I’ve sold my 42” plasma and Bose speakers. I know, shock huh? We’re currently watching Sally’s 27” LCD but I think a Vizio 37” might be in my post-employment future. Sally has sold her yellow formica dining room table and chairs, and her old Ikea bookcase. We’re going to replace the bookcase with an almost identical one from Ikea that has a cut-out in the middle for a TV - the cut-out just wasn’t quite big enough for my 42” plasma though, hence why it had to go. I’ve sold a few bits of music gear too but still have a lot of it listed on Craigslist. Sally also got rid of her big pouffy red leather chair, some pictures and a bedroom mirror. Now if we can just find a buyer for our old futon we’ll be in great shape.

And the upside of getting rid of stuff is we get to buy new stuff :-) First is the new bookcase I mentioned above. Second is some patio furniture. We’ve seen a nice love-seat at Target, some great lounge chairs at Pier1, and a really nice sectional couch at Pottery Barn. I’ve also seen a fantastic computer desk at Crate & Barrel, but I’ve yet to find the perfect hammock.