All year, well mostly during winter, I wish for summer to come. But now that it is nearly here, I want it to be over. It has gotten extremely hot the last week or so. 38 degrees yesterday!! So hot that you don't want to do anything. I don't feel like eating, I can't sleep, I can't get comfortable...

At my old work, I used to email this girl who was in Sydney. We would wish our lives away, in amongst  reporting misdirected, short and damaged freight. On Monday we would wish it was Friday and count down all week, telling each other our plans for the weekend. During winter we would complain how damn cold it was and wish summer would hurry up and come. In summer we would complain about how damn hot is was and wish winter would hurry up and come.

And now that it is here and I don't have her to complain with, I'll share it with you, dear reader!! (Lucky you!!)

I remember on New Years Day 2006, it was the hottest day on record. 43 degrees in downtown Sydney. And my boy and I were at Lunar Park for the Feel Good Festival or something. Pretty good day except for the fact that we were dripping with sweat, were in an auditorium filled with people and he was still feeling seedy from the celebrations the night before! Then when we got home, we found out about a destructive fire that had gone through a little farming town about 20 mins away.

I usually remember once it starts getting really hot that I don't like summer. No matter how hard you try, you can't seem to get cool. Our air conditioner doesn't make it into the bedrooms, so at night we are laying naked or close to it, on top of the sheets with the fan on flat chat and sounding like it is about to take off. And you can't sleep. I can't sleep if I'm hot.

When I still lived with my parents, we would have the air con on (with vents in our rooms so it beautiful and chilly) and I always got a good night sleep. I would have th air con blowing on me and have the doona over me. Its sounds pointless, I know, but its the only way I can sleep during the summer months.

You're probably thinking I'm a winter person, but I'm not really either. I hate being cold and having so many layers on that you feel like you can't move.

I really like Spring. When its just starting to warm up and you can wear t-shirts comfortably without being too hot or too cold. When all the flowers start to bloom and the trees start looking green again.

I really hope there are no fires around this summer. With the drought and all, things are pretty much dead and with dry hot conditions, it doesn't make for a good time. There have been some pretty devastating fires the last few summers. I'm really not looking forward to it.