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cleolindaToday's horoscope: You are a force of nature, a cyclone, a hurricane. But be judicious with your power. THAT'S NOT FUNNY.
It's getting scary out here. Not the weather--the natives. Once again, everyone is panicking, driving batshit crazy on the roads, buying up all the bread and batteries, and Mom had to wait in line 45 minutes at the grocery store. When my stepfather comes home in a couple of hours we're going to start moving the deck furniture under the deck (ARR! BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!), and I'm backing up all my book material in online storage (Yahoo Briefcase, Gmail, etc.). Also, there will be much laundering and hair-washing while we still have electricity (Sister Girl even went ahead and dyed her hair last night. Priorities, she has).
About Sister Girl's hair: Every now and then she gets a wild hair on (no pun intended) to change the color of her hair. Generally this involves highlights or a color a shade or two off her normal one, which is a light/medium brown I believe Madeleine L'Engle once called "hair-colored hair." (It's my color, too.) Well, this time she decided she wanted it darker, so she got a shade called "Sweet Cola," which purported to be a "medium-dark brown," but in actuality was more of a "light pitch black." Well, I take that back--it is still on the brown spectrum, and it's not that awful lightless black that looks completely fake next to most skin colors. It looks good. It's just not what she wanted.
Meanwhile--did I tell you about the tree in the front yard that was struck by lightning while I was in New Orleans? (Marcus is okay--he's in Austin, by the way, says one of our friends.) It was split right down the middle into thirds. One third fell over. The other two thirds are still there. I'm thisclose to going out there with an axe and chopping all the way down to the root so at least it'll go ahead and fall over and not be used against us like a giant projectile. Where are orcs when you need them?
Also: Dear UPS: STOP LEAVING PACKAGES BY THE BACK DOOR. WHY DO YOU DO THAT?
Speaking of orcs: Oh, dear. It's Fugagorn. Yikes. Well, at least I'll have something to play with while the power's out. Actually, I ought to be completely entertained--I have that Milton mini-paper, plenty to read, and a new story idea involving seven orphans, probably a bit after WWI, and the middle two boys need names. This is my favorite part of writing a story--the exploratory phase--and it's easy to do on and off while you're working on something else. I have plenty of paper, so as long as deck chairs don't come flying through the windows, I ought to be okay.
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Date: 2004-09-15 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-15 11:42 am (UTC)Well, I hope nothing too serious happens to you guys and that all is well in the end. Good luck.
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Date: 2004-09-15 11:44 am (UTC)Stay dry, save your files, take care.
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Date: 2004-09-15 11:58 am (UTC)This hurricaine thing is like Y2K, isn't it? With the batteries, bottled water and duct tape. (I still don't know how duct tape protects you from looters, computer meltdowns, or anthrax.) Hey, at least where I live, when an earthquake happens, we get no warning and therefore no crazed locals. ;-)
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Date: 2004-09-15 04:34 pm (UTC)I'm in EQ country too, and no warnings, just spur-of-the-moment craziness. =)
Also, on the hair dye note, going darker this weekend. I used to just want to be blonder than I am, and now I do the winter/dark/summer/light thing....it was way cheaper when I just wanted to be very blonde.
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Date: 2004-09-16 05:15 am (UTC)All we get are tornadoes and ice storms to freak us out. And since you don't know how bad those will be until after the fact, Teh Crayzee strikes in the days after instead of the days before.
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Date: 2004-09-15 12:03 pm (UTC)Yarha, Tempest Tossed or Cookies Hurled?
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Date: 2004-09-15 09:00 pm (UTC)Sadly, I have NOT met Jay :(
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Date: 2004-09-15 12:45 pm (UTC)I think you mean wild hare.
But yeah... I also have hair-colored hair. My mother, thankfully, started letting me dye it when I was 12. It's been variations of red and blonde ever since, including one point when, after several consecutive bad dye jobs, it was about 5 different shades.
Mine is also currently a brown so dark that it looked black, but I've washed it a few times and now it's more on the brown spectrum.
~*Ariel*~
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Date: 2004-09-15 12:58 pm (UTC)HEADLINES: UPS PERSONNEL SHOWN TO BE 'BACK DOOR' MEN
Subtitled: We Have Proof!
...or perhaps not. ;)
Yarha, The Tao of Peaceful Whatnotness
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:11 pm (UTC)And then I checked NOAA, and promptly realized, "Holy fuck! It IS going to be a direct hit on Mobile!" Me thinks I should call home tonight.
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:12 pm (UTC)public panic here is a scary, scary thing. i live in seattle, so when it snows once every five years (ahem. so i'm exaggerating a little), even though it's barely an inch and you can totally still see the grass in my front yard, everyone freaks. school closes, the stores sell out of bread, milk, and batteries, and people refuse to drive unless it's a matter of life and death.
even when it's raining and the snow on the roads is A) nonexistent, or B) nasty grey slush piled at the curbs that attacks the feet and ankles of innocent passersby, soaking them.
pfft. crazy seattle people, can't take a little snow. i'd hate to witness hurricane-preparedness. you might die if you linger too long in front of the grocery store, or something.
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:28 pm (UTC)Stay safe up there!
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:50 pm (UTC)About hair, they tend to do what they want. I always wanted to be red-haired and curly. I had to wait to have the right to dye them, and they always stay straight. Until some months ago, when they begin to curl naturally. But whatever which red I take, they 'bring the color down' to a limit. Even a hairdresser couldn't make it red above the limit.
About the cyclone, hope that all will be okay :)
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Date: 2004-09-15 03:41 pm (UTC)I always quote this when people ask my why i dye my hair, and then they never get what i'm talking about! Honestly, people are so illiterate these days.
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Date: 2004-09-15 04:18 pm (UTC)(I'm starting to get glad that hurricanes are a non-existant thing in my part of the world).
Sister Girl's hair sounds good! I want to do that to a friend of mine, but ... we never seem to get around to doing that colour and always head more reddish coloured.
Stay safe, at any rate, hope all your back-ups work *snugs*
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Date: 2004-09-15 05:25 pm (UTC)Seriously! We just started using our back door again recently and they would just randomly leave packages there. It was something like two weeks before we realised one of the boxes was out there!
I think that the ax idea is a good one. The more you can increase your chances of not having a flying projectile aimed at you/your house, the better. =)
*hopes deck chairs stay outside where they belong*
Good luck hon =) Hope everything turns out okay for you =D
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Date: 2004-09-15 05:42 pm (UTC)I dyed my hair before Charley hit FL!!! And I thought about doing it again before Frances kicked my ass but it would have been overkill.
You are not alone.
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Date: 2004-09-15 06:54 pm (UTC)You've got me checking my horoscope again, foul demon!
j/k.
Nice to know you're still alive, tho.
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Date: 2004-09-15 09:07 pm (UTC)And I just have to put in a *plug* for the name Caleb. Ever since I met one I love that name. :)
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Date: 2004-09-15 10:22 pm (UTC)Not that, you know, Ivan doesn't count. Is it just me or is it like God keeps trying to bowl a strike with these things?
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Date: 2004-09-16 05:21 am (UTC)Best horoscope (and reaction thereof) I've ever read.
But seriously, hang in there. Ask my fiance - I talk about you like you live down the street and we meet every morning for coffee (and evenings for beer). Let us know when you're still alive.
In the meanwhile... being mildly drunk may be the best way to pass the time. :-)
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