Suddenly summer (half gone!)

I have nothing particular in mind except a general update, inspired by the friends who blog regularly although I rarely log into the dashboard anymore to see who's written what, and most of them don't seem to read my entries  (or at least, they don't comment). In the era of Facebook and Twitter, people don't appear to have much of an attention span. So I'll do this in bullet form.

1. We moved. The new place is somewhat larger, but boy it would be nice if there was just one extra room.
2. The place was filthy when we arrived. (Warning: grossness ahead.) Other than the ancient toenail clippings between the windows in one bedroom, the worst and most pervasive element was hair. Facial hair, scalp hair, everything-else hair, from floor to ceiling, and I do mean that literally. There was someone's complete haircut on the floor in a corner of the kitchen. Hairs pasted up on the ceilings, everywhere. I thought I'd been left with the short straw in the previous place, but most of that was environmental dirt -- ordinary dust and grime from outside traffic, etc. This was somehow more personal and definitely more disgusting.
3. Enough of that. Now that it's clean, we love the place.
4. Work has been so intense that I haven't even done any cardio exercise for three weeks. Although I know it's an illusion, I feel as though I've gained back the pounds I lost from April to June. It's just a kinda schleppy, yucky feeling.
5. Combatting inertia on a rare day off, I the nearest Energie-Cardio yesterday and was ready to sign up, but due to consumer protection laws, you can't pay in cash (?!!!!) but must do a pre-authorized withdrawal thing with a void bank cheque or else pay by credit card. Not having the latter and without the former on my person  at the time, I had to walk away without a membership -- just an appointment to go back Monday afternoon.
6. Visited the Toronto area for a few days last week; it was a working holiday, and it made me some good money, but it wasn't an experience I'd repeat. It was a weird kind of stress, a feeling that I couldn't really relax with deadlines looming over me.
7. I love birds: one of the really nice experiences (other than seeing the family, albeit all too briefly) was going to the Wye Marsh with Brian and Celine, and holding aloft sunflower seeds until the chickadees figured out that we were mobile snack stations. Once they overcame their initial shyness, we had a good half-dozen coming and going, landing on our fingertips, grabbing a seed or two, and zipping away to either eat or hide them. I have pictures on a CD, but there's no CD drive on this computer...Thus the old and beloved chickadee photo up top...