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Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Rain

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4:49 PM
On the way home today from our afternoon outing, it rained.  Ok, it poured.  And I really loved it.  Aside from a long overdue little break from the incessant heat, it filled me up with this cozy feeling.

It rains here all the time, regardless of the season.  But something about this rain was different.  This rain was...  fall.  I could sense it.  It was different.  And I had a really intense feeling of hope and optimism as I squinted through my wiper blades.

I think I should bake something.
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...or, you know, not.

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6:01 PM

They've changed our status back from TCCOR-3 to TCCOR-4.  Morakot is heading away from Okinawa.  We are getting a decent amount of wind, and periodically some rain...  But not much else.

I'll admit I'm pretty disappointed.
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Okinawan rite of passage

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5:56 PM
I am buckling down in preparation for my first typhoon.  Any normal person would be worried.  Instead, I am excited.

Typhoon Morakot is heading this way - they anticipate we'll be experiencing it tomorrow and Friday!  I'll admit that the weather right now all by itself is rather exciting - the wind is blowing, the rain is coming in in patches...  It's a little like the anxiety I remember from being in labor.

I kept Amaris home from school today, and will most likely have her out for the rest of the week as well.  Tonight she is going to church with our neighbor and I'm certain that she will have a blast.

I ran errands this afternoon out of last-minute necessity and also to divert my attention.  I spoke with my grandma on the phone earlier today and got an update on my mom's situation.  The doctor seems to believe that it's most likely Alzheimer's.  Which, deep down, I knew.  I had been SAYING that right along.  But to hear somebody else, somebody who knows what he is talking about, say it...  That is different.  And a little bit heartbreaking.  All of these fears immediately arise - many of them selfish.  Ok, well, technically they could ALL be considered selfish.  But they're all very real and very harsh.

Will this be a hereditary concern for me and for my children?  When we return to America, will she remember us?  Will she recognize us?  Will any sort of treatment change the situation at all?  Or are we just doomed to be this way?  Will she never improve - only worsen - as time goes by?  Will this kill her?  Will I ever get any semblance of my mother back?  Or can I just count on the way things are being the way things will be, and that's that.

It's a little too much for me.  I'm trying to occupy my thoughts elsewhere but the truth is that I'm scared.

A little bit of good news (which I'm not ready to share yet - and no, it has nothing to do with more babies), and then a big piece of bad news.
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Shiki-NO-en

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10:55 AM
It's raining today!  And the forecast says to expect it to continue through Tuesday!  What gives??

So our trip to Shikinaen has been cancelled.  Well, postponed.  Maybe we'll go next weekend instead.  Anyhow Valentine's Day will instead be spent at home watching movies and drinking cocoa.  Goofy-assed weather.

I guess it's just as well, I'm a little behind on homework anyways...  And I need to do some housework.  Happy V-Day to ME!  >:/
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Only happy when it rains.

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12:26 PM
All afternoon the thunder has been booming. I am pretty much a hermit, so I didn't realize it was thunder at all. I only put two and two together when I opened the front door to toss out a diaper and noticed a big black cloud looming off in the distance.

Then I came back inside, sat a while and thought and then heard another boom (till then I'd thought they were somebody driving by with a loud stereo... But really how many loud stereos drive down residential streets on Tuesday afternoons?) and realized it might be thunder. So I opened the door again and looked at the black cloud and sure enough I saw some lightening.

I gathered up my video camera and went outside after it got dark and took some footage of the lightening. One thing I will actually really miss about Texas is the freaky weird storms here. I've never seen anything like them. Except in Switzerland. The weather there was bizarre. Here it is actually quite similar. It can be hot and dry and disgusting and then all of the sudden there's lightening and thunder all night long.

Anyways a few minutes ago, it started pouring down rain. The landlady will be thrilled to know that the grass is being watered.

I love the unpredictability of Texas weather and the slow, movie-like way that storms creep in. The thunder really does roll (whereas in California it booms) and the lightening is like a continual strobe light through the trees and the clouds. When it comes in through the window at night, it feels like I'm getting my very own light show.

This morning California had a pretty noteworthy earthquake. Everybody's getting a little dose of something.
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