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That was freaky. I woke up hearing driving rain and thought it was odd. Turned on the computer and my eyebrows shot straight up when I saw what looked like a miniature hurricane over Oklahoma. The sucker was spinning and even had an eye.

Tropical storm Erin decided she wasn’t finished and gave us all a good thrashing. The Bethany police station had 3 feet of water. People were stuck on I-40 for hours.

I had to go out and roll up the window on the car and nearly got blown off my feet. Came in soaking wet.

The electricity flickered off and on for awhile and then went off for awhile.

I knew there was a reason I didn’t want to live in Florida or Louisiana.

Sheesh.

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It’s not what it used to be. Packs of kids scouring the neighborhood for hours until late at night. Every house on the street with their porch light on letting kids know where the good stuff was. Now it’s parents following their kids around with flashlights making sure their kids go only to the places that are safe. Or taking the little darlings to a mall which is even safer. To me the one thing that symbolizes how far Halloween has fallen is the x-raying of candy. Come on! I remember well the rampaging of the neighborhood for hours then the return home to stand waiting while our Mother checked the candy out and the joy of having it shoved back into the bag and handed back to us. Bah!

Last year there wasn’t one kid out trick or treating in the apartment complex. Not one stopped at the door. Halloween has changed. It’s no longer about kids rotting their teeth out and getting stomach aches for days. It’s more of an excuse to buy that “darling” spider shaped candle stick and the jack o’ lantern stew pot. It’s turned into a Martha Stewart style excuse to decorate the house in cobwebs and bloody hands. We don’t bother with it. (Yes, I did the halloween layout for the blog but that witch rocked! Reminded me of a costume my mother made me a long time ago.:D)

The only good thing, IMO, about Halloween is that it’s a good time to buy spiders for my son the arachnid fan.

Hmm.. am I the only person who read about Sheehan’s parts being buried in Crawford and, of course, went ewwwww…

then I heard the music to “I left my heart in San Francisco” going thru my head.

“I left my parts in Crawford Texas”.. if Tony Bennett sang it it would probably make millions.

The kidlet headbutted me in the face, not intentionally, and tried to ram my nose up into my skull. Sickening sound. It’s not broken but it hurts like hell. So unless I find something so irritating it pisses me off severely I doubt I’ll be posting for the next few days.

Ow, ow, ow….

I worked on one of the closets. Mistake. Found some of my Mother’s love letters and had to go thru baby clothes. After having a crying fit for awhile I moved boxes around in the closet. Cleaned some stuff out to be trashed and managed to slam my kneecap into the edge of the closet door. I saw stars and nearly puked it hurt so much. Managed to get everything else shoved back into the closet and gave up for the night.

For dinner I had a pity party carb fest. Homemade macaroni & cheese, a slice of homemade bread with butter, and a buttermilk brownie I’d made them the day before. The bread was a bit dense. When I was making it yesterday I managed to accidently hit the bread pan on the counter after it had gone thru it’s final rising. All the air went flying out of it. lol It was good but dense.

I also cut myself yesterday and had two episodes with splinters. Richard ordered me to stay away from the closets until he’s home. I’ve managed to hurt myself in some way every time I’ve attempted cleaning out closets.

I think he’s right.

I think I’ll wrap my knee, park my ass on the couch, and watch the idiot box today.

1. I will NEVER order food from Mazzio’s Pizza again!

2. I won’t forget the vow I’ve made NOT to order from them!

I swear the coating for their chicken is 90% black pepper. My stomach is really sensitive about black pepper.

Cayenne pepper sauce I can eat with no problem. Would someone kindly explain that to me?!?

Oh my aching stomach…. I’m paying for my stupidity and will probably continue to pay for it the next few days…

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society’s continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998

Gotta love it when the global warming weenies get bitch slapped. Everything in nature revolves around cycles. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. As an example, last year we had very few, if any, tornadoes here.

This year we’ll probably get our asses handed to us repeatedly. Next year who knows?

As another example, women. Men haven’t been able to figure women out yet. If you can’t understand women what makes you think you can understand the workings of the weather?

Richard has family in Chattanooga and in Virginia and some of my family are in the Bluefield area of Virginia so we were watching the storm systems that went thru there. I’ve lived in Oklahoma for 40 freakin years and I’ve never seen what I saw yesterday. They were calling them “training supercells” on the weather forums. And just about every one of them had a hook on it. At some point last night I was watching the weather channel and must have nodded off. Joshua got in my lap and fell asleep too. lol

If it’s been this bad so far this year, the number of tornadoes, I’m not expecting to skip the action this year. I need to clean out some more closets and clear out that big closet completely just in case. We have a fan that sits on a stand. It’s huge and in the way in the walkin closet. I want to move it out of there so I don’t trip over it or something during an emergency. I also need to clear off a space on the shelf in there for my emergency bag. (I put my medications in there in a ziploc bag during storm season. Keeping a weeks worth out.) We also need to make a run to Radio Shack to see if we can get some flashlight bulbs for our lantern.

I just love tornado season. */sarcasm

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