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today was a pretty cool day.  started off rainy & stormy - like, REALLY stormy.  lots of big thunder & lightning, and it was rather dark when it was time to get up.  which means i reallllllly didn't want to get out of bed!  *laugh*  do dark & stormy days make you want to stay in bed, too?  i mean, you know i don't like to get up anyway, but when it's dark out getting up just seems so much more difficult.  heh. 

anyway, once i got over that & got to work, i was pretty awake.  ; )  it was kinda a slow day, as far as problems go.  i had stuff to keep me busy, but it wasn't the usual "rushrushrushgogogo" that i've become accustomed to!  trish is outta town for the week, so her daughter & i have been chatting a bit, which has been fun!  i was supposed to have a meeting over lunch, but it got postponed to friday, so i grabbed some delicious baked potato soup in the cafe & then spent the rest of lunchtime reading Pendragon in the car.  the sun had come out at this point, but there was still a really nice breeze going on, so the car was quite comfy w/ the windows open! 

the sunshine did not last, tho.  round about 3:30 i started to hear rumblings about a tornado watch.  the sky started to get darker.  the weather radio alerts kept going off at the front desk.  jokes were bandied about that we'd have to head for cover at like 4:45.  and then... round about 4:45... dave came around to say the watch had morphed into a warning, there had been funnel clouds spotted in bettendorf (eep!) and we all needed to get to the safe rooms!  d'oh!  now, i used to sit right by the windows, but since the move i'm more "inland."  as a matter of fact, i sit right btwn two of the safe rooms.  i was working on some retirement stuff that i really wanted to get done, so i asked dave if i could keep working.  he laughed at me.  *laugh*  so, i put everything away, figuring by the time the warning was lifted it'd be time to go home, and headed to the lunchroom to hang out w/ the rest of the late shift peeps.  we watched the radar on the news & thankfully the warning was only til 5!  i texed mom to make sure she was in a basement, because she nannies in bettendorf, so if there really was a funnel cloud spotted there, i wanted to make sure she was safe!!  (she was, yay God!)

once we were released a little after 5, i headed over to hy vee.  (i thought i needed foil, but when i got home i still had some, and actually needed saran wrap, which i did not get.  lol)  it was raining but not too hard, and the sky was clearing when i went in.  i cruised around the store for 1/2 an hour or so, picking up a few other things i forgot to get yesterday.  when i left, the sky was amaaaazing!  God is truly an awesome artist!  : ) 

beautiful, right??  i wish i could've taken some during the storm, but i guess safety first & all that! 

when i got home, i used the rest of the bacon to make 5 bacon wrapped lil smokies (yum!).  uncle gene sent me the rest of his guest blogs for the menu, so i spent some time moving those over.  he very kindly said he likes my blog (thanks!).  the tough thing is blogger changed their securities, i guess, so i can't be in my gmail and blogs at the same time.  d'oh!  makes it a little difficult to get everything moved over, but it's all good! 

i watched America's Got Talent (and boy do we!!!  we also have some seemingly normal ppl who turn into freaky something or others when they hit the stage!  eep!) and a couple episodes of Vanguard.  talked to mom.  poor leyton had a fever & some sort of rash today, so tomorrow we're not going out anywhere, i'm just gonna hang out at mom's, i think.  hopefully he'll feel better, but the doctor said to have him rest & drink lots of fluids, so there we go!  i spent some time looking at airfare to NM in october.  it's funny, because if i was paying for it myself, i would have likely booked it already because i found a deal for roundtrip for LESS than $300 w/ free checked bags!  however, because i'm asking mom to pay for it for my birthmas, i want to continue looking for deals.  am i weird or what?  *laugh*  anyway, we'll talk about it tomorrow & i'll see how she wants to handle it.  if she even wants to do that.  sometimes it's hard to talk to her about stuff because she always seems to be distracted! 

anywhoo... what else?  oh!  my friend becca started a blog about single motherhood.  check it out!  : )  also, brandi's having a giveaway on her blog of a trilogy of historical romances.  the stories look pretty good!  andrea, you'll want to check it out! 

i'm off to bed, but first one more thing - pandora is playing a lot of old school will smith & dj jazzy smith tonight, and i am loving it!!  : )  

ttfn!