Whew...summer's here.

And that "whew" was NOT a sigh of relief and enjoyment, let me tell you. Rochester has two seasons, I'm afraid -- cool and filled with precipitation, then hotter than all get out and dry as a bone. (Are bones dry? I guess that would depend on if one is dead or alive.) These two seasons seesaw back and forth with the regularity of a moth's fluttering, especially around this time of year. We have had nice cool weather with exciting and beautiful thunderstorms for a few weeks...but now we get another dose of the scorching heat. I have been soooo thirsty today it's not even funny. In fact, I'm going to get a drink of water (with ice -- can never have water without ice. Thanks, Lyssa, for getting me hooked on ice! LOL!!) right this moment!

OK, I'm back. Ah, water. That makes me think of a movie I saw part of today...The Quick and the Dead. No, I didn't watch the whole thing! I fast-forwarded through most of it, thank you very much. I only pressed "play" when I saw Cort's (Russell's) face on the screen. My goodness, but he is purty, ain't so?

Anyway, there was this one part where Cort is chained up to the well or whatever in the middle of town (you'd have to see it to understand, and I really can't recommend the parts that don't feature Cort), and Herod (the bad guy, or one of them) has put a glass of water just out of Cort's reach. Cort's trying so hard to get it -- brushes it with his fingertip -- then knocks it over and the water goes flowing out and soaks into the dust. Cort looks at it longingly and touches his tongue to his upper lip.

Oh, oh, oh....poor Cort! I felt so bad for him! I love my water and I can't go for very long without it. An icy water bottle accompanies me everywhere I go. I can't even comprehend what he must have felt. I vow I will never drink another glass of water without thinking of that scene...

And this brings me to Russell's other movie I saw recently...yes indeed, Cinderella Man!! I finally got to see it! Lea and I went out the other night and we enjoyed it very much. Can I say that again? We enjoyed it very much!! The language was completely unnecessary, but other than that, what a fantastic movie! It should get a Best Actor/Best Picture nomination at least, but I don't know if that will happen now. We'll see. I hope it does! It should! It's such a sweet and powerful story. I'll try to write a detailed synopsis later, and I'd love to include a piccy or two. (Am I allowed to do that? Is that hotlinking? As you can tell, I'm still completely computer-illiterate.)

Got to run for now. :)

P.S. Can't I just go visit John Biebe in Mystery, Alaska for the next two or three months until the heat subsides? The temperatures there would probably be a comfortable 50 or 60 degrees....sigh...