1:00am this morning - Wake up to tornado sirens. Since we saw Day After Tomorrow on Saturday, my first thought is “Oh Shit. If I look out that window and see multiple tornadoes, I’m going to crap all over myself”. Look out window, no wind, no rain, and no nothing indicating bad weather. Turn on TV, while fearing seeing footage of tsunamis washing over the Statue of Liberty. Damn that movie!

1:15 - Sirens turn off, but tornado warning still active. Still no rain. No car-size hail Damn that movie! Go back to sleep.

1:30 - Shoot out of bed at sound of sudden storm. Fear the ice age is eminent. Damn that movie! Be on the look out land born hurricanes. Damn that movie!

1:45 - Turn on TV again - we are still under tornado warning. Consider hiding in bathroom until weather map indicates that the worst part of the storm has already passed. Should have been in the tub 15 minutes ago. Say silent thanks that my stupidity and laziness didn’t get us killed.

2:00 Power out. Shit. Oh well worst part of storm is passed. All we can do is sleep and hope the food doesn’t go bad.

5:30 Wake up. Power still out . Worry more about the loss of food. Realize I can’t do anything about it. Wonder why I feel cold when the AC has been off for hours. Think the ice age must definitely be upon us Damn that movie!. Go back to sleep.

7:30 Wake up. Power back on! Woo! Food should not be spoiled. Get up and start the day.

8:30 Sit down to write an entry about the freaky weather and my fear of the global climate change thanks to that damn movie we saw on Saturday.

8:45 Entry done. Get ready to publish. Friggin’ power goes out again. Go chat with the neighbors about the damn power outages and how thankful I am we live in the Southern US where the temperature drop won’t kill us when the global climate change occurs Damn that movie!.

10:00 Decide to screw living life by candlelight and cold baths. Go to salon to get pretty.

2pm Home. Pretty. Power still on. Write entry quickly. Be on the lookout for 15 degree temperature drops along the Atlantic Current though because I am still fearing the evacuation of the northern hemisphere due to a freak arrival of the next Ice Age before LilZoot gets back from summer camp. Damn that movie!

You know - I own a lot of cheap-ass furniture. Seven years in college (Three as a single mom) leaves you only one option: Shit-board furniture. Or hand-me-downs. Or streetcorner steals. Or yard-sale finds. And now that I have a good paying 9-5 job and a working husband, well, then things like this happen.

This is my son’s bookshelp that collapsed ON MY DAMN HEAD. Yeah - there are usually 3 other shelves, but they ALL chose to fall on my head one day when I was putting stuff up. So - I did the best I could by stacking all the books and games up in piles, and then left it. For two months. What the hell should I do? The bookshelf has been taken apart and put back together at least five times. Its been moved a dozen times. It only cost 35 dollars brand-spankin’-new at Wal-Mart anyway, so it has out-lived its predicted life span. There is no way I’m buying anymore crappy furniture. But we dont have the money to buy GOOD furniture yet. So. What did I do?

I took one for the team. I got rid of ALL my paperbacks (I have a LOT of paperback books). Now? After rearranging the other shelves around the house - I have one small one empty and ready to fill. Now lookie…
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I woke up this morning kinda pumped and ready to GET. THINGS. ACCOMPLISHED. Do you do that? Wake up with your list of things to do already in place in your brain and motivated to check them all off before lunchtime? Thats how I was. I wanted to get all my chores done before lunch so I could have two days to be reaaaallllyyyyy lazy. Vacuum. Bathrooms. Mopping. Dusting. Pack LilZoot for camp. Teach myself more about blog skins. Walk the dogs. Groceries. Shower. Pedicure…

Then, I saw it was raining.

And I havent done shit since. I’ve been up for two hours. So much for my mental checklist.

Isnt my floating candle bowl so pretty? See the green leaf candles? And the green stones? Ahh… I love it so.

What? What did you say? You said there’s something missing? Oh - is there supposed to be WATER in there? I wondered why the candles were never floating. Jeez. Unless - wait - I DID put water in there. I think I filled that damn bowl up this morning. And the day before that. And the freakin’ 100 days before that. But for some DAMN reason, my cats think its their water bowl. And yes - they have perfectly good water bowls, and yes, we leave the toilet seat up for them (What?) - but they STILL drink the water out of my pretty pretty pretty floating candle bowl. And my candles never know the joy of floating for more than an hour at a time. *sigh*

And Look! I bought the dogs new bones four hours ago…
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EEEK. Now in this picture? I really really really like Rupert’s hair. And how much fun do they look? I want to hang out with them! That makes me an uber-loser doesnt it? If I were 14 again? These two boys would be plastered all over my walls, and I’d be cursing Ms. Watson for being friends with them. Alas, I’m 28 - so I just *squee* over them and count down the HOURS until I get the see their movie (count: 170).