relaaaaax

Why hello, summer! How I've missed you. 

Happy to be home, where I can lay in glorious sunlight with cats.

Happy to see my family and have a nice big bed to sleep in (also with cats - cats make everything better).

Happy to not have to deal with school for a good three and a half months.

Trying to figure out what to do with myself now, as school self was not on top of life. Like at all. 

Trying really hard not to think about the fact that my favorite human of all time is 3000 miles away from me.

Also trying not to think about the fact that I'm now going to be a junior in college, and that my twentieth birthday is in almost exactly 2 months.

zip-a-dee-do-dah

I just made the mistake of looking at my house and street on google street view while I am sitting here in the fox building with snow and wind whipping and whining and whistling through cracks in the windows and around the outside. Just sitting here cause it's cold and blustery outside and I don't want to walk back to my apartment. I'm so done with the snow and cold. It was novel and exciting the first three times it happened but now it's just an inconvenience.

The wind though, the wind I like. It also reminds me of home, the windstorms, the ficus tree in our backyard that blew over that one time. 

Sigh.

Natural selection, hard at work. Oy Vey.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/evacuation-holdouts-again-urged-to-leave-before-mudslides-hit-.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/station-fire-evacuate-gold-canyon.html

Why do Californians (and rich people) always think that they can somehow miraculously "save" their house from natural disasters? Is hosing down your house really going to stop a fire with 40-foot flames? Is a wall of sandbags really going to stop a river of mud sliding towards your house at speeds of up to 35 mph? All these people ever end up doing is wasting the money that the state has to spend sending firefighters and rescue crews to try and rescue them, while they could be spending their time doing other more worthwhile things like, oh, fighting fires. Plus, why should your house be more valuable to you than your life and the life of your family? If you don't feel like dealing with evacuations and natural disasters, maybe you shouldn't have gotten a fancy-schmancy expensive house in the mountains in the first place.

Shame on the parents with children (especially young children) who made that poor judgment call.