Thunder @ MindSay

Just a day and a half and I will be off work for two weeks, w00t!! I can hardly wait, I really need this break to.

 

I think I am going to spend a lot of time at the beach, I just hope the weather holds out, we have had a really crappy summer so far, no hot days, lots of rain and thunder storms. Although, I actually do like the storms, they are never bad enough to cause any damamge, just a nice lightening show to watch with the kids.

 

Actually, a few weeks ago during one such storm, two really young girls (14ish) where running down the street in bikinis, while the storm was raging, I was sort of worried for them, I was thinking I should tell them to go back home, but knowing they wouldn't listen to me I didn't say anything anyway. After the storm they where walking back and one girl glanced up and saw me, suddenly she turned her back to me and mooned me. Wow, that is all I have to say about that.

 

I have to stay away from online games during this vacation, last year I wasted a week just playing games, I can't let that happen this time!!

The temperature has fluctuated in recent days, but still it's a lot warmer than it has been which I appreciate. Summer has finally come in and I can stop carrying my coat around. And now I'm sitting back with what to me is a rare but valued experience where I currently live: a heavy summer rain and a melodious thunderstorm. Nothing too excessive that would frighten anyone but the most timid of hearts. Just a comforting but strong pitter patter sound and occasional rumble. And the smell! Summer rain is the best smelling rain hands down. I have no idea why rain should differ in scent, but the summer drizzles do. Everything about the summer storm, it all just feels so fresh. Like a the world is being cleansed and brought back to simpler more relaxed state.

I love it I tell you.

The first three pictures are of the Forrest Mushrooms my mom bought for us (I paid her back:P).  They are smaller then the other type of shrooms we normally eat from the wild and aren't as buttery tasting but still GOOOOOOOOD! 

 

The first picture is of them soaking all day in salt water.  Salt water kills all the lil bugs and such off of them.  The second picture is of them nice and cleaned off (part of them anyway) and ready to be dipped in batter!

The third picture is of them deep fried and yummy tasting.

 

I used crackers for this go around of breading.  The kids perfer that over flour.  But I perfer the flour breading mixed with a lil corn meal myself!:D

 

The next round of pictures if of the tree that came down in that big thunder storm that rolled through our area of NE in the middle of May.  We had no clue that it came down!  And our bedroom window is on that side of the house! The top window showing is Colt's window.  Our window on that side of the house isn't showing.  Colt didn't even hear the tree coming down.  And it had to hit hard!  Randy had to hook the big truck up with his chains to pull out some of the bigger branches from my yard, they were embedded into the ground! The lil dog kept waking us up that night and we kept getting after the poor thing for barking!  She was just trying to warn us the tree was falling was all!

I should be reading The Dew Breaker and writing my reading responses, but instead I've been playing around on the computer all day. I have been doing laundry, though, so my day hasn't been completely unproductive. I'm not the scumbag I usually think I am.

This update will be quick as I really don't have any patience for writing today.

Last night at about 4 a.m., someone decided it would be an excellent idea to light fireworks on 3 M-X, so the fire alarms went off and my entire building was herded out into the freezing cold. It was not fun; I've never shivered from cold and exhaustion so much in my life. Daylight Savings fucked me up, and I'd only been sleeping for an hour when the fire alarms roused me with their screeching from hell. Needless to say I was not pleased, and it took me almost 45 minutes to fall back asleep afterwards.

I also found out my grades for my psychology test and German history paper: C and C+ respectively. That put me in a mood for most of the weekend; I'm used to being a good student, so even though I was warned I would get these grades, I didn't think it applied to me. Obviously, I was wrong. I got the C+ in German history because my writing style, 'while intriguingly narrative', wasn't analytical enough. This is further proof that I can't pursue a career in history.

I got a letter from Student Accounts Friday afternoon saying I owe the school $2,000 because FAFSA didn't yet pay them the loan they were supposed to. It was only after a few hours of fretting that I realized I forgot to go online and sign my Master Promissory Note. That's all taken care of now, but it was still a pain in the ass and enough to make me geek shit. I thought I was going to lose my housing for next semester after I'd already planned to room with Caroline, Theodora, and Aly in my suite next year. Boo.

Aly and I went to the Oakdale Mall yesterday (during this huge thunderstorm) and were terrified within an inch of our lives but a thunder clap that set off every car alarm in the mall's parking lot. Not fun. Even more not fun? It rained all damn weekend except for today, but it was cold and cloudy and altogether blah today. It also changed from rain to snow yesterday, which was not cool.

I went to the Masquerade Ball yesterday dressed as a pirate with a mask over my face and I clearly missed the point of the Ball: I was the only one there (except for two other guys) who dressed in a costume. Everyone else wore beautiful dresses and handmade masks over top. I left after an hour to go see the Golden Compass; I was so uncomfortable I could barely stand it.

To make everything else better, my parents have been out of power for almost two days now, they can't find a heater to keep warm (obviously we have no heat at the house without power), and when Mum went to do laundry at the laundromat, she grabbed house cleaner instead of laundry detergent and managed to bleach out a good share of her brand new work clothes she got for Christmas along with some of Dad's brand new clothes from Christmas. All in all, they've had a shitty weekend and so have I.

My saving graces this weekend have been a visit to the Underground Coffeehouse (where I got to listen to a really awesome band called the Middle Eight [check them out]), a trip to WHRW (where my whole DJ issue and time slot issue were solved in one fell swoop), and two breakfasts comprised of chocolate chip pancakes.

Let's hope next weekend is better. Caroline and Theodora will be here, and Aubrey's coming to visit, so I hope to God things work out. Otherwise, someone will die.