Too busy

So I realized I haven't blogged in almost 4 weeks, but in my defense, most of my blogging was done at my laid back, nothing-to-do job and the job I currently have keeps me busy all day. So I work 8 hours, come home and usually have to write 5 or 6 articles; throw in quality friend time a few times a week and you get no new post in 3 weeks. Anyway, here's a bullet list of what I've been up to all month (besides work):

• the midnight showing of Harry Potter 5--a most excellent movie
• an ice blocking outing (ice blocking: sliding down a hill on a block of ice a.k.a. sledding for summer) in which the ice block flies and gouges out a chunk of my chin. I had a chin crater and now a sweet scar
• transition from writing about beauty to writing about money. I now know all about financing a car, payday loan companies, and bridge loans.
• a disco themed birthday party complete with dancing and costumes
• dinner with some old friends from church I haven't seen in a couple of years
• THE 7TH HARRY POTTER BOOK!!!!!!!!! It was most amazing--I laughed, I cried, I read for 6 hours straight. The perfect end to the epic Harry Potter tale.
  
• The purchase of the 7th HP audio CDs. Now I can listen to it all I want!
• Boating at Chatfield Reservoir
  
• Jessie, Timm, and Bella driving through on their way to NC--I was a bit blue.
• Unbearably hot house--average temperature upstairs: 87 degrees. Ew.

So, as you can see I've been busy this July, but then again who isn't? The heat is by far the most disgusting part of the summer. This is what the butter looks like in our kitchen (it's just sitting there):
How sick is that?