Only in Chicagoland can you get a heavy downpour on a day where no rain has been predicted whatsoever. Luckily we were inside, just relaxing. I think it was the rain on the horizon, without us aware of it, that made us so lethargic. I’m sure I’ll kick myself tomorrow for not making more of the day off, but honestly, I wasn’t in the mood for a movie today. Perhaps next weekend. Instead, I finished The Lovely Bones. I started it on Thursday and couldn’t put it down. Good books are few and far between it seems.
Category: Life
I’m too young to die
I think I had a brush with death twice this weekend. Not really, but isn’t being melodramatic fun?
However, I do think I may have “overdosed” on caffeine yesterday. Between the migraine medication I took, and the frappachino and colas I drank, I must have had more caffeine in my body than normal. I was lying on the couch last night, reading a book, when all of a sudden I felt like I was going to die. My heart was racing, my chest felt tight, and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I’ve experienced similar symptoms in the past when I used to suffer from occasional panic attacks, but hadn’t felt that way for years. And usually when I did, I would be thinking about something that upsets or scares me. So it didn’t make sense why I’d feel that way while reading a non-violent book. Unfortunately, it took me a few hours to feel normal again, and by that time it was 2:30 am.
Today we were coming out of the library, which is directly behind the police and fire stations, and the emergency siren starting going off. I thought my eardrum was going to burst. We skipped going to Blockbuster as planned, and went straight home. We turned on the Weather Channel to learn that there was a threat of violent thunderstorms and tornados in the area. We didn’t hear the sirens again, but the emergency messages came up at least twice more during the course of the day.
And now the “exciting” weekend is over and it’s time to go back to work. Incidentally, we borrowed The Guru from the library and it was much more enjoyable than Legally Blonde 2.
Gone
How is it that even the longest day of the year still passes by so quickly, you barely have time to fully appreciate it?
Sundays are better than Mondays, and Fridays are better than Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, but Saturdays are the best days of all.
Yawn
I don’t know why, but I’m extremely tired tonight. I haven’t done shit since I got home from work, and I have no intention of doing anything either. I feel blah. I think it’s the cold, windy, overcast weather. Isn’t it supposed to be warm out?
Tornado
There is nothing more unnerving than hearing newscasters advise to take cover while suddenly the neighborhood emergency sirens start to sound. Luckily no tornado touched down by us, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared sitting in my bathroom, wishing we had a basement.
I take back what I said about Mother Nature. She is not a whore. She is a lovely entity.