Well, I guess somebody, somewhere, might be wondering what has been happening in the house of Shakim for the last month or so. The truth is, we have not been doing too much of anything and we are not ashamed of this. These last few weeks have truly been the dog days of Summer. We've been reading (Joe: Mother Night, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, etc.; Diana: A Severe Mercy, Irresistible Revolution) and watching movies (Old Joy, Moulin Rouge, Rocket Science). We've been casually sewing (Diana mostly) and casually bike repairing (Joe mostly). But most of the time we are just spending time together eating food and staring out into space. It has been a refreshing month of doing nothing at all, in fact, we have made it a point to not do anything at all on Sundays. One Sunday we just went to the Fenders (with Shaun and Abby) to swam all day and watch movies and other Sundays we have sat outside the Shafer house and read while St. Augustine went wild in the yard. We've been slowly looking for a new place to live, but a new and somewhat irrisistable secret offer has slowed our pace even more (Sea & Tea can call to learn the secret offer if they so choose). So in conclusion, our June/July has been quite uneventful as you could already tell by the lack of posts in our blog. We are still alive, but just barely... By choice... Like we are in a coma without the traumatic experience before or after the coma... Yeah...