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OH EW I just killed the mosquito as he was feeding and my thumb is splattered with blood :-(
Anyway.
Five people drowned at the beaches this weekend - five! It's so awful, and I am both sad and upset at my fellow countrypeople who do not heed the warnings - they said it would be a turbulent weekend - except that not really, because I was this close to going to the beach myself, and you never really expect anything to happen to you.
One of the stories was even sadder - it was a 70-year-old woman who died, and my grandmother knew her - apparently she was a troubled person, and her partner had been trying to get her to leave the house, to go to the beach - and when she finally did she died. Just... heartbreak.
So I visited my grandmother yesterday afternoon, and she got another call telling her that one of her friends died - not the one above, a different one - and this isn't the first time I've witnessed her getting such a phone call. And she'd just been telling me about the funeral she'd been at earlier this week (sounded nice actually - he'd died two years ago at the age of 100, donated his body to science, and they were finally burying him now. He'd planned his own funeral, she she says he did a good job!). I can't imagine what it's like - I just know I'm incredibly blessed to still have her with me, and to not have her friends dropping off like flies break her spirit.
She also told me about the event she went to last weekend - I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say my grandmother and her friends went on a road trip to an event up north and returned home at 4AM. The driver was 82-years-old. Have I mentioned lately how much I love my grandmother? I think it's been, like, a month.
In younger news, I saw the sunset at the port yesterday! Guess what that means? That's right, PICS. And I've just remembered what made me lead with the drowning people story - it's because the sea yesterday was very, very angry.
The first is the Simpson-esque sky on the way there, and the second is me freaking out at the traffic jam we were in and taking pictures of the almost-setting sun because I was panicking that we'd miss the sunset. I was parked three minutes later so... that was dumb.
See the waves? Neptune was pissed off at something this weekend, man. He was mad.
And this time there's a bonus - I videoed it with my crappy digital camera! So you can see 31 seconds of the sunset, with my voice in the background irritably trying to coax the ocean into showing some foamier waves, for the camera.
Anyway.
Five people drowned at the beaches this weekend - five! It's so awful, and I am both sad and upset at my fellow countrypeople who do not heed the warnings - they said it would be a turbulent weekend - except that not really, because I was this close to going to the beach myself, and you never really expect anything to happen to you.
One of the stories was even sadder - it was a 70-year-old woman who died, and my grandmother knew her - apparently she was a troubled person, and her partner had been trying to get her to leave the house, to go to the beach - and when she finally did she died. Just... heartbreak.
So I visited my grandmother yesterday afternoon, and she got another call telling her that one of her friends died - not the one above, a different one - and this isn't the first time I've witnessed her getting such a phone call. And she'd just been telling me about the funeral she'd been at earlier this week (sounded nice actually - he'd died two years ago at the age of 100, donated his body to science, and they were finally burying him now. He'd planned his own funeral, she she says he did a good job!). I can't imagine what it's like - I just know I'm incredibly blessed to still have her with me, and to not have her friends dropping off like flies break her spirit.
She also told me about the event she went to last weekend - I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say my grandmother and her friends went on a road trip to an event up north and returned home at 4AM. The driver was 82-years-old. Have I mentioned lately how much I love my grandmother? I think it's been, like, a month.
In younger news, I saw the sunset at the port yesterday! Guess what that means? That's right, PICS. And I've just remembered what made me lead with the drowning people story - it's because the sea yesterday was very, very angry.
The first is the Simpson-esque sky on the way there, and the second is me freaking out at the traffic jam we were in and taking pictures of the almost-setting sun because I was panicking that we'd miss the sunset. I was parked three minutes later so... that was dumb.
See the waves? Neptune was pissed off at something this weekend, man. He was mad.
And this time there's a bonus - I videoed it with my crappy digital camera! So you can see 31 seconds of the sunset, with my voice in the background irritably trying to coax the ocean into showing some foamier waves, for the camera.