Still good here. The storm passed by yesterday with some rain and fun cloud formations, but that’s it. We’re in the clear.
Now, I’ve got to balance the checkbook and pay some bills so I can go back to reading my book without feeling so guilty. 
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011 3
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Still good!
Friday, August 26th, 2011Still no heavy weather in our area. Looks like it’ll rain, and we’re getting funky clouds, but it shouldn’t be bad.
I’m at work, so I haven’t seen the weather since early this morning. It’s been a LONG week.
I’ll keep you updated if anything changes.
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Rain, rain, rain
Thursday, August 25th, 2011Potential landfall for Irene is shifting further and further north and east of us here. If she keeps on turning, we might not even get much rain. That actually would be a shame because we could use the water.
On the other hand, Justin is helping the church move the equipment from the high school to a storage shed near the movie theatre on Friday and that would be miserable to do in the rain. The school, where we have been meeting in the auditorium, was struck by lightning the week before last, I think it was, and it knocked out their fire alarm system. The school worked out an evacuation plan so the kids are safe during classroom hours, but extracurricular activies and other people who rent the building are out of luck. So we’ve moved to the movie theatre down the street. All our kids ministry and music equipment is stored at the school, though, so the church has to move it out and down the street, but during hours when the school will let us in do to that. So, Friday afternoon, hopefully, is when that’ll happen.
And the on Sunday, after church because Justin is on rotation to run the computer and projector and I’m on schedule for singing, we’re helping a couple of our friends move from Beaufort to Bluffton. It kind of works out well that we can’t help in the morning because they have a cat that sheds like a maniac. With any luck, they’ll be at the place in Bluffton by the time we get out to help and the cat will be safely tucked away somewhere and we’ll be able to help without dying from allergies. But, again, it would be miserable to do that in the rain.
In other news, I hurt my knee a little bit running. I landed on it wrong and hyperextended it just a little bit, probably. It’s been hurting on the calf-side behind my knee. But ice and Advil and rest and a really annoying knee brace and it’s doing much better already. We took a rest day yesterday instead of our regular running schedule and it was GOOD.
Honestly, the rest day was only partially because of my knee and also because we’ve both been having a heck of a week and we both just needed time to do absolutely nothing. It’s been really crazy and we’re both feeling the strain. So we ate leftovers for dinner, I folded the laundry that Justin washed during the day, and then I sat downstairs watching TV while he played computer games with friends online. I finished off the bottle of wine, which really only meant I had a glass and a half, but it made me giggle. And then we had ice cream cake that we found at the grocery store on Tuesday. It was perfectly relaxing and wonderful and NEEDED.
Today we’re back at it, plugging away. It’s going to get better eventually. We just have to slog through a couple more week of this, hopefully, and then we’ll be out.
Irene
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Things around here have been very busy lately. I’ve been working several hours of overtime the last couple weeks. And we’re still working on the Couch to 5K program three days a week. Last night I didn’t even turn on my computer. I’ve been *tired* and busy.
But I figured I should at least stick my head in here and let you know that we’ve got a hurricane on the way to the east coast. So far it’s been adjusting course to go further north and east of us, but it’s possible that it’s heading this way. (Hurricanes are big and unpredictable creatures, after all. You’re never really sure which way they’re going to go.)
So far, we’re not concerned. We’re *aware,* but we’re not concerned. It’s like the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning – conditions are possible, but so far, we’re not looking at trouble.
If it does head our way, you can be sure that we’ll be taking appropriate action – whether that means evacuating or just making sure that we’re sandbagged into our house or whatever. (There will not be actual sandbags.) We have friends near Athens, GA, who would put us up, I’m sure, so there’s nothing to worry about if we have to evacuate. And if we stay, it’s because we’re absolutely sure it’s safe to stay.
Honestly, I’m expecting that we’re going to get an impressive amount of rain over the weekend, but that’s it. But we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop as conditions change.
And remember to pray for Mom’s surgery today!
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Happy birthday, Erica!
Monday, August 8th, 2011Happy birthday to my wonderful sister, Erica, who I totally tried to call earlier but who didn’t answer, even though it was only, like, 4:30 in Minnesota and who I must therefore assume was out rocking the town because by my count she’s turning 30 and that’s absolutely the birthday for which you should go out and rock the town. Yea!! So I’m not going to call her back tonight because now it’s after 8:00 there and I’m really hoping that part of her birthday also means that she actually gets some sleep for the first time since JD’s birthday (doesn’t that sound like a fantastic birthday present?!) and besides that I don’t have any cell service at the house and she’s not on Skype right now (again, hopefully either rocking the town or sleeping) so I don’t actually have a way to call her and I’ll just have to catch up with her some other time.
BUT! I really do hope that your birthday was ABSOLUTELY OFF THE WALL FANTASTIC and I’m sorry I didn’t send you anything, but I hope Tim got you something AWESOME and we’ll totally have to catch up later this week.
I wasn’t even home on Friday, when I would normally call. Friday, I got up and went to the church offices to do my monthly cleaning there, and then when I got home, Justin and I ran down to Savannah to run a couple errands and catch a showing of “Cowboys & Aliens” (really fun movie, by the way) and then drove straight from there up to Beaufort to go to a board games party at a friends house. And we were there until after midnight so I started to fall asleep on their couch, which was why it wasn’t until we were nearly all the way home before we realized that I’d forgotten my purse, with our house keys, back at their house. 45 minutes away. But luck! I stuck a spare house key under the bumper of the car! And fail — the key didn’t actually work. We have no idea why it didn’t work, but the dang thing wouldn’t turn. So at 1:30 in the morning, Justin borrowed our neighbor’s extension ladder and climbed in through a window on the second floor of our house.
Saturday, I was fighting off some bug because I slept a lot. I tried to stay awake and managed a couple hours at a time, but then would fall back asleep again. It was really annoying, actually. I slept through most of Sunday morning, too, failing to go to church, and then took it pretty easy for the rest of the afternoon. Friends came over in the evening to collect boxes from our attic for moving and we fed them dinner in exchange for ice cream and Justin fixed the power supply on one of their computers, too, and some other computer work.
And after they left, because the air conditioning unit refuses to blow cold air, we set up the bed in the living room and slept down there. The a/c unit upstairs hasn’t been working right for the last week or so. It was working in the evenings, like it was exhausted from the heat, too, and decided that it would just work its best overnight. And then it stopped doing that, too. The downstairs unit is working, so we’ve got a box fan at the bottom of the stairs, blowing air up to another fan that moves it closer to either Justin’s office or the bedroom, depending on where it’s turned, and a third fan that blows air up from the floor into faces. But it’s just not quite cutting it. So we’ll be camping out downstairs for a couple days. We have an appointment set up for a guy to come look at it on Friday, which our landlady set up a couple weeks ago for regular maintenance. So when he comes, hopefully he’ll take care of the problem.
And how’s that for about the most random post ever?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAE-MAE!!