Hot, hot, hot! I'm hot hot HOT!!!

And that is not the "yeah, baby!" sort of hotness, either.

Why is it that Tuesdays are always hot lately? Last week the temperature was over 40 degrees centigrade, it was horrible yesterday and is going to be the same today. Well, it is summer I guess.... But today it is not dry heat so much, but kind of muggy because there is a big cyclone up north. Hopefully it will come down the coast a bit and we will get some lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely RAIN!!!!!!!!

It's Swimming Carnival day today too for poor Coconut Head. That means I am going to be more mental than usual about sun protection. "OH why can't I have parents who don't care?" she was wailing this morning just because I was forcing her to take a hat with a decent BRIM and not the cap she usually sneaks into her bag and wears, and not the Gilligan's Island-type bucket hat that is about as good as wearing an icecream container on your head!

So, of course, we were late AGAIN for school.

They do these pink slip things there if you are late, and they are especially designed to stress already over-stressed mothers out even more. You have to go the office, avoid the principal, fill in a form stating your reason for being late, avoid the principal, get a pink slip, avoid eye contact with the person who is standing in the doorway of the staff room, and take your child up to their classroom. While avoiding the principal.

I tend to make sarcastic comments under 'Reason for being late'. Like today, my tardiness was due to "constraints of the space/time continuum".
Tomorrow it will be "car not equipped with warp factor".

It's called MUM-RAGE.