Drying on the Clothesline

• In our quest to eat healthier, I've discovered how great the Recipezaar website is. For every recipe, it gives you the Nutrition Facts, which was my initial draw to it. However, upon further inspection, I discovered that it has a great search engine. You can search by ingredient, and then filter by how many calories it has, other ingredients in it, or several other factors. It's pretty great!!
• Speaking of eating healthier, have I mentioned how much I dislike the word "diet"? I'm not on a diet. I'm trying to make some lifelong changes to my eating habits. In my head, diets are crazy and impossible to follow long term.
• You may remember a while back when Nick hurt his paw. He has now split a toenail on his back paw, so he's running around on 3 paws again. (You can sort of see it in the picture below...) The picture just doesn't do it justice though, because it's HILARIOUS when he runs around like that. It wouldn't be so funny if it seemed to stop him at all, but he still chases squirrels and runs laps around the yard like this.

• I'm feeling much better now about my job situation than I was a few weeks ago. I've had several interviews in the last week or so and I'm feeling hopeful that one of them will work out. So I'm happy to report that the job search seems to be moving along at least.
• Tuesday night, we were going to turn on our air conditioning. Our hope was that we'd be able to sleep in on Wednesday morning (I had the morning off and Aaron had the day off). With the air on, we wouldn't be hot and miserable in the morning AND we could have our windows closed, meaning we wouldn't have to listen to all of the neighborhood dogs bark all morning long. (We love dogs, but one thing we will not put up with is our boys barking for extended periods of time outside!!) Sooo.... we turned the air conditioning on. After a few minutes, I heard a sort of whining sound. I asked Aaron about it, and he said it was probably just the compressor since there was so much moisture in the air. But then the noise started getting louder and I asked Aaron to go check it out, because "it sounded like it was about to explode." Sure enough, the fan wasn't working, so the air conditioner was overheating. It looks like we'll be without air conditioning for a while. It's been in the upper 70's to mid 80's in our house for the last few days. Luckily, there's a slight cool down in the forecast for early next week.