sooohoho. its been awhile. school has started, life is crazy and to top of my first week back we had a minor tornado rip thru north central. oh by the way school is gearing up, going along with my theme today, i would like to refer to my current educational state as "the calm before the storm." i have seen a few friends of late, i feel like when i am hanging out that i am a the current freak show at the county fair. "get your tickets get your tickets before its gone folks! one time and one time only before it disappears into oblivion! never to be seen again, just 5 cents!" i soon will be nonexistent friends (except those of the academic social circle of course) until november, till then....
ok but back to nature. this storm, and i say storm but really i was wondering if at one time was some kind of retribution for my sins it was that bad, good thing i have been going to church otherwise i am convinced our home would have been picked up off the ground. i did see toto by the way too, it was incredible. thursday's storm unfortunately took out one of our beautiful trees in the front, which we couldn't see at first because there was no visibility , wind was pushing thru our closed windows, tree limbs were flying every direction, continuous thunder and lightning, utter chaos. hannah slept thru it. go fig. the next morning with no power we surveyed the damage, we lost a sapling in our backyard too. i walked over to it, completely snapped it half. the irony, there was already this fat little yellow worm nestled comfortably in my snapped tree! it was just the icing on the freakin cake. i immediately hated him, he was ugly too, with a gynormous round head. he is still there, i check often hoping to see him fried by the sun. at least i will feel better, vindicated, so there. anyway. so clean up crew on the way, i am getting ready for work with a flashlight, sweating, irritated, i dont even want to touch david or hannah because they are both enormous sweaters and they are both clammy and its hot, did i mention that? life goes on, crazy patient at work freaks out and is wailing on the floor at my feet, naked. thats another story though. yada yada, sunday, after a very fun night with friends of which whom respectively paid their 5 cents to visit, we head home and are getting ready for bed around midnight. i am brushing my teeth, david is chatting taking advantage of my teeth brushing speechlessness., and all of a sudden i hear this loud cracking, that is getting louder and louder. tooth brush still in mouth i am frantically looking for my glasses, like just standing in place rocking to find my glasses (in a moment i went to being a huge fan of lasix) i seriously heard the cartoon sound" i-e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i" the lights flickered, david grabbed me, my hero, and put me in the doorframe of the bathroom. the thunderous boom that followed the cracking was terrifying, like a bomb and for a moment i did think that maybe we were under attack. the lights went out followed by this bright blue flash, we looked out the bathroom window (it gets better) to see flames now. yeah! fun. david goes to run outside i am still looking for my glasses like an idiot and toothbrush in my mouth. david is cursing at the door because he cant get it open fast enough, finally outside, a 60 foot eucaplytus tree fall into our backyard. took out the power lines, the utility pole is on fire, dangerously close to our pine which is dangerously close to our office. 911, fire dept, aps. i find my glasses and take the toothbrush out just in time for the fire dept to arrive :) the fire petered out, they are all walking around in the backyard, and aps yells "everyone out of the backyard, we have a live wire!" greeeeeaaaaatttt. lucky again, husband was not incinerated. clean up crews arrived the next day, lovely aps restored power, david skipped on the way to the airport to leave us, jk babe, i know you would have loved to stay. all in all broken fence, took out my grapefruit, my oleanders looks like broken bones. lucky it fell they way it did though. crazy stuff. put a spin on "labor day." oh and that freakin worm is still there.
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Wow! I can't believe you had to deal with all that! Nuts. Nature is weird. So, you have some landscaping to do now?
Good thing the office didn't go down because you wouldnt be able to study there 10 hours a day. Man! You are boring. If I lived in Phoenix, I wouldn't be your friend.
When I was a kid our house was stuck by lightening and my dad called the fire department, told them the attic was on fire, but requested they come when they get a chance and if they could not put on the sirens that'd be great. He didn't want to cause a scene - you know how he is. Anyway, when they got to our house, about 2 minutes later with sirens, I walked outside as they all came running in and said "Dad, look at all the clowns."
where was hannah when all this went down? just sleeping away again?
The story isn't quite complete without the pictures. I still have to see those!
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