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For behold! I am the All Seeing, All Wailing Queen of the weather faeries! My armies of wind and rain have come to banish Old Man winter from our shores!

The dreaded Frost Bite shall be dragged on his knees before me to face my terrible wrath! And I shall decree that the condemned will be locked in the closet until about mid-June when we need him to hold the popsicles and ice cream!

Woot!

-PT

Hi Everyone,

I know I have been quiet lately (busy, having some emotional issues, busy again, sleepy, then busy again), but I am still here, and hoping to post something of substance soon.

I have had some good news over the last week:  my kitty's diabetes is apparently going into remission.  This means that he is down from 4 units of insulin twice a day to two units once a day.  In a week or so (probably closer to two), we are going to go back for a check up to see if he can be taken off of it entirely.

This is really exciting for me, not only because it means that my kitty will be healthy again, but also because it will mean no more $400/month vet bills.  I will actually be able to have a savings account again!!  I'll be able to buy supplies for my course and pay for the next course in the fall!

Maybe even buy myself some new clothes.  Yay!

Not much else is going on.  The weather has turned somewhat fall-ish, but it is supposed to be sunny again by the end of the week (which should give my sun-burned lips just enough time to heal ... who ever heard of having a sunburn on their lips, anyway!)

I have been spending a lot of time at the beach the past month.  I love the ocean so much!  We have managed to only eat out at good restaurants, thus cutting down how often we eat out by quite a bit.  We even went to see the new Indiana Jones movie (awesome movie - go see it ... like right now!).

I don't know what it is about stories set in the early-mid twentieth century, but they make me feel strangely nostalgic.  Which is bizarre because I wasn't born until 1980.  Ah well, that is a pondering for another day.

Time to get back to work.  Just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive.

--Phae

I woke up this morning to being able to see only gray outside my window.  The fog was so thick that I couldn't see across the street.  I love it when it is like this! 

The rain has lifted and all that remains is the fog and the sun battling it out to see which will win the day ;)  I am gonna take some pictures!

--Phae

Run for the hills! It's teh global warming!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

You know, all this alarmist crap making the news is really starting to bother me. Here is a direct quote from last night's weather cast:

"We haven't seen winter temperatures this warm in over half a century of record keeping."

Umm, 'scuse me? Half a century? As in 50 years?? Do you ignorami have any idea how long there has been weather?? You want people to panic because the planet has the nerve to change weather patterns over the course of 50 years?

You know, I have come to expect to see news casters blow things out of proportion when I watch the American stations (for some reason, they seem to think that the news has to be exciting there or people will switch to the OC for knowledge of what is going on in the world ... or something). But, I have always been happy to say that our local news station just tells it like it is. Impartial and accurate.

In the last several weeks of 'extreme weather coverage', there has only been one segment that had a scientist telling people that, 'Hey! It is winter, people! Storms happen in the WINTER!!'

I am very against scare tactics used to get people to do the right thing. There are better ways to motivate people. I mean, do you tell your kids that a crazy person will cut their ears off if they don't clean their rooms?

Though, to be fair, my mom did used to tell me not to make funny faces or the wind would change and it would get stuck that way. Unfortunately, I have never been able to hold a funny face long enough to try that out :P

--Phae

Where did spring go? It was starting to get so nice and warm ... and today it is SNOWING??? Can the weather gods please make up their minds???

--Phae