Ray's House of Love (Volume II)

I am draggy this morning. I think it has something to do with being woken by unearthly wailings screaming that doom is upon us. Somehow the sirens you hear on TV don't have quite the weird quality the real life ones do.

Maryn we do have a basement but the rain didn't start until I left for work. I had to dry the shower and lay a towel down for Leela who is scared of storms but I only heard one thunder boom. The storms seem to be breaking up. It was mostly just light rain on my drive in though you could see where water had collected indicating recent heavy rain. I discovered the hard way my umbrella is not in my car when I arrived at work but it was still light rain. I bundled up my office sweater and wrapped myself in a hoodie with the hood over my head and went for it. It was working pretty well until half way to my building - whoosh down pour. I ducked into another building and hung out with a coworker for about 20 minutes to wait it out. I texted my boss to tell him where i was. he's cool. I didn't want to sit at work with wet feet, not fun!

Maryn said:

Maryn, brain like Swiss cheese

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Edible and tasty, good with wine?

A someecard I saw this morning—someone's reading my mind:
"I'm having fruit salad for dinner. Well, it's mostly grapes actually. Ok, all grapes. Fermented grapes. I'm having wine for dinner."

Maryn, chances are you didn't hear them. It's not a sound you can forget.

Komnena said:

Maryn, chances are you didn't hear them. It's not a sound you can forget.

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In the small Ohio town I recently moved from (good riddance), the sirens were tested every Wednesday at noon. The sirens would also sound, often in the wee hours, when inattentive workers would set them off accidentally. Damn hard not to hear, but rarely would the sirens go off when there was actually an imminent threat. Funny, though, that after a threatening storm had passed, they'd blare the "all-clear" siren, even though there'd been no warning, prior.

Ya gotta love one-horse towns.

Maryn, we don't have salt trucks or snow plows.
I bought a weather radio ap last night because we keep saying we need a weather radio but don't get it. They remind us on the news aren't meant to wake us up - that's what the weather radio is for. It woke me up to say we were in a tornado watch. I may change it to only do it for tornado warnings. But I know it works!

Maryn said:

Now that you're no longer there and neighbors cannot find you with pitchforks, can you tell me what town in Ohio? The Kid attended college near Cleveland.

Maryn, who visited the area many times

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Have you ever heard of Norwalk, CT or Norwalk, CA? Well, Norwalk, OH ain't them. 'Bout 15 miles due south of Sandusky (Cedar Point—great roller coasters!).

Yeah, we've talked about this before...I think in PM right after you rescued me from the site that shall not be named; best that way.

Where'd your kid go?

My folks live in Steubenville - where Dean Martin is from.

Yep, and there are many, many entertainers from Ohio. Seems like a lot of them are comedians.

If you're into lists, you might find this amusing.

Oh my. WHen I finally finished college, I didn't feel finished becuase I majored in Film and didn't want to persue it as a career anymore. My friend videotaped graduation for me and I sent a tape to my parents and boy was my mom mad at me! It honestly didn't cross my mind becuase I was so meh about it to invite them. oops.

Mine weren't livid. more like dismayed and "well we would have come if you had told us." indignant like. But that's just it, it wasn't a big deal. I would have liked to see them I guess. but...

I went to film school, changed my mind, went to community college part time for a couple years, realized that to change my major I would have to go to school even more years, went back to the film school and talked to the Dean who let me take one more class at the film school and graduate. I didn't even know anyone I walked with.

Youth is wasted on the young. I didn't used to understand that statement. I know I am 36 but with the health problems I've had I feel really old next to the students I work with- even next to my boss who is 32.

My goal this year is to gain back my mobility.

Maybe you could walk whatever distance you were comfortable with and gradually lengthen it, perhaps a block a week.

Well my massage therapist had me lay on my stomach then bend my knees so my feet were in the air so my legs made a right angle with the table, if that makes sense. She had me bend my left leg to the side and I did fine, but when I tried with my right, I couldn't. She said that it is not that I can'tbut that I tense up, and told me to relax. "but I don't know how to relax." I say in a small voice. SOOOO i am going to a) get more messages! b) do more yoga again c) work up to dancing in my living room again like I used to, and work out.