Hot Weather

Fiorella is such a wienie. The higher the temperature outside gets, the more she stays inside, where the air conditioning cools her body and the ceiling fan allows her to breathe.  Yes, she's aware that people all over the globe live year-around in much hotter temperatures, but they don't have a choice.  Fio does, and she chooses 70 degrees, winter or summer--although occasionally, when Husband isn't looking, she'll slip the summer temp down to 68..

Runneth Over

Thank you for the random kindness of strangers--well, an almost-stranger.  Fiorella used to go to Office Depot a lot more than she does now that her recently-retired husband has taken over the chore, and, being her father's daughter, she got to know the clerks. In fact she became sort of chummy with one of them.

So when Fiorella dropped by the store for some of those snap-closed paper clips the other day, and  Nancy commented on her long absence,  Fio explained she'd been spending her time writing.  Then she gave Nancy one of her promotional bookmarks and told her she'd had a romance novel published.  Nancy's face lit up like a Christmas tree, and she said she'd read Fio's book right away.

And she did.  Fiorella got a nice message from her last night.

Again, Fio's cup runneth over.