See through it all.
It's the start of my vacation and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm going no where. I will not be seeing my parents. Hell, I don't even know if I'll call them this week, though I suppose I should. Father's day coming up and all. I'm looking through Kade's music as he's asleep in our bedroom. On Wednesday/Thursday it rained for about 16 hours on and off. The night started off with a fight, Kade's stressed from life stuff piling up, and I came home with a couple of complaints. We haven't really fought that much lately, which is good. But when we do it seems like it always wipes the slate clean of all the good things between us. The word 'always' and 'never' comes up far too often. I know I don't always nag him. On a girlfriend scale, I think I'm pretty low key on the nagging, and I've improved over the years. But when something comes up its as though this is how it's always been, always and forever. Or when he does something wrong.
I hate 'always' and 'never'.
Anyhow...We got over it when the rain came. The wind ripped through the trees violently and the hard falling rain could be seen changing direction rapidly in the air, back and forth, like screaming ghosts. Buildings were flooded, trees were knocked over, shingles ripped. Just the sort of weather to fit my mood.
Thankfully we sustained no damage. The next day I saw touch down lightening no less than five times on my ten minute trip to work. The power went out and stayed out after about an hour at work, a transformer blew on one of our major streets, right next to my store. When I left the store, as there was no point in staying, there was no rain. In the fifteen minutes it took me to get home because of a detour buckets of rain were flooding down the street and I saw a huge three bolt of lightening all connected together touching the earth. It lasted for what seemed like 10 to 15 seconds straight, a pillar of electricity from here to the outstretched fingers of God.
The power wasn't restored until 1:30 pm and I didn't go back into work...Lost the pay, but damned if I was going to stay and shelve books with a flash light that went off every time I tried to put a book on a shelf, and I couldn't do any work back in music as it was completely dark. They were thankful to save hours, anyhow.
Thursday night we had a good time, Kade received RE5 in the mail from Gamefly and I tried to play it with him, but several things pissed me off about it. First, I still think they could improve the control scheme. It takes me 15 seconds just to turn in that damn game and 'zombies' surround you from all sides. Second, of course, the ammo problem and the fact that the knife seems pretty useless this time around. Third, and most important, I have a 42 inch or so flatscreen TV. Pretty big on the TV scale, it ain't bad. Instead of using all of that screen space they literally put mini-screens up for the split screen mode. It is completely, ridiculously small. Still...I do really want to try to play it with him and get better at the horrible gameplay that is Resident Evil. I shouldn't let the fact that I'm not good at console shooters stop me. I'm not a pussy, I will not be held back by a game.
Last night we watched Star Trek VI and I had some beer and way too much delicious Mama's Pizza, then we talked for a good two hours in bed and Kade told me all the things he loves about me while I did what I do best, listen. I'm glad I've found someone like him, the complete yang to my yin, very opposite and yet incredibly similar.
I think I'll go back to reading the first volume of Absolute Sandman. They all arrived in the mail and I couldn't be happier with them, though they are huge, about 7 pounds each and quite large. Still, I love the weight of them in my hand and the cool leather. And the improvement on the coloring and detail is wonderful. When I first got them I did a side by side comparison and it's just night and day. On the original things were shaded with mostly just one block of color, there weren't multiple tones, but in the Absolute version things are given so much more depth and strength. Anyhow, its great, can't wait to get to volume 2, where I'll be reading all new stories. Expect more updates from me soon, I have a couple of posts that I've been sitting on for a long while, including, perhaps, pictures from my trip home last year.
I haven't even looked at them yet, not once since I got back. Hopefully it won't make me feel depressed like I was for almost a year since I went.
I hate 'always' and 'never'.
Anyhow...We got over it when the rain came. The wind ripped through the trees violently and the hard falling rain could be seen changing direction rapidly in the air, back and forth, like screaming ghosts. Buildings were flooded, trees were knocked over, shingles ripped. Just the sort of weather to fit my mood.
Thankfully we sustained no damage. The next day I saw touch down lightening no less than five times on my ten minute trip to work. The power went out and stayed out after about an hour at work, a transformer blew on one of our major streets, right next to my store. When I left the store, as there was no point in staying, there was no rain. In the fifteen minutes it took me to get home because of a detour buckets of rain were flooding down the street and I saw a huge three bolt of lightening all connected together touching the earth. It lasted for what seemed like 10 to 15 seconds straight, a pillar of electricity from here to the outstretched fingers of God.
The power wasn't restored until 1:30 pm and I didn't go back into work...Lost the pay, but damned if I was going to stay and shelve books with a flash light that went off every time I tried to put a book on a shelf, and I couldn't do any work back in music as it was completely dark. They were thankful to save hours, anyhow.
Thursday night we had a good time, Kade received RE5 in the mail from Gamefly and I tried to play it with him, but several things pissed me off about it. First, I still think they could improve the control scheme. It takes me 15 seconds just to turn in that damn game and 'zombies' surround you from all sides. Second, of course, the ammo problem and the fact that the knife seems pretty useless this time around. Third, and most important, I have a 42 inch or so flatscreen TV. Pretty big on the TV scale, it ain't bad. Instead of using all of that screen space they literally put mini-screens up for the split screen mode. It is completely, ridiculously small. Still...I do really want to try to play it with him and get better at the horrible gameplay that is Resident Evil. I shouldn't let the fact that I'm not good at console shooters stop me. I'm not a pussy, I will not be held back by a game.
Last night we watched Star Trek VI and I had some beer and way too much delicious Mama's Pizza, then we talked for a good two hours in bed and Kade told me all the things he loves about me while I did what I do best, listen. I'm glad I've found someone like him, the complete yang to my yin, very opposite and yet incredibly similar.
I think I'll go back to reading the first volume of Absolute Sandman. They all arrived in the mail and I couldn't be happier with them, though they are huge, about 7 pounds each and quite large. Still, I love the weight of them in my hand and the cool leather. And the improvement on the coloring and detail is wonderful. When I first got them I did a side by side comparison and it's just night and day. On the original things were shaded with mostly just one block of color, there weren't multiple tones, but in the Absolute version things are given so much more depth and strength. Anyhow, its great, can't wait to get to volume 2, where I'll be reading all new stories. Expect more updates from me soon, I have a couple of posts that I've been sitting on for a long while, including, perhaps, pictures from my trip home last year.
I haven't even looked at them yet, not once since I got back. Hopefully it won't make me feel depressed like I was for almost a year since I went.