"We've been expecting you."

[lumy12]

((Really I just wanted to use a quote from Obi-Wan being on Kamino and it being all rainy and stuff. Yeah, I'm lame.))

Okay so most people don't care to hear about the weather, but yesterday we had the closest thing we have to tornadoes here - it was awesome! I figured there was a storm brewing in the early afternoon; the sky was dark gray. My coworkers commented bitterly how it would probably just pass right over us. I had lots to do so I planned on taking the company bank deposit with me on my way home, instead of taking it and coming back. Bad idea!

Just after 4:00 the Big Boss called everyone into the center room in the office. Made us sit in there to wait out the storm. I thought, jeez this must be bad. He'd seen a funnel cloud over our office. O.o So naturally everyone was like "Ohhhhhh I wanna see!" Myself included. But he wanted us away from the windows. I was stressing about having to go to the bank and the post office (both for work) before 5. Yeah, I'm such a company gal, I know. *snicker* I was like, bouncing in my seat. After what seemed like forever he let us leave that room and we all rushed into the foyer to watch the storm. Still he wouldn't allow any of us to leave. I whined to my boss and asked what would happen if I took the deposit on Monday. It was a small one ($32k - yeah, I'd like to be putting that in MY bank account); I know it screws up something in finance if the deposit date doesn't match the posting date in the system, but you know, maybe it's not THAT big a deal... she said yeah, sorry but you have to go... "If you don't feel comfortable taking it I'll do it." -Are you kidding me? I was itching to get out in that storm!

So Big Boss, who seemed disgruntled about this (I was rather smug about the fact that I HAD to leave, cuz my boss had said SOMEone has to take it) insisted on driving me to my car - it's like a 60-second walk, but, whatever. He was really worried about all the lightning still being overhead, though by this point the wind had died down considerably. And it FINALLY started raining. Yay! And he brought up the fact that I'm brave cuz I chased the guy who broke in that one day. Heeeeeee! He loves telling that story to all the new people. And they all think I'm nuts. It's great.

I heard on the news later that there were HUNDREDS of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes during this. GOD I LOVE STORMS!

I should put up a to-do list on my fridge but I'm feeling very unproductive. Maybe when I get back from my oil change in a little bit.

Comments

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

But you're in the midwest - you people know all about tornadoes and stuff. We ignoramuses out here get all excited about wind and dust! Staining the deck does NOT sound like fun. I thought I'd be more of a DIY-er when I got my house but I'm far too lazy and bookwormish to do much with it anymore.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

And here I thought you had nothing in common with Anakin. *snicker*

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

As I said below, I go downstairs and start actually watching the weather when it starts hailing. Though I generally tend to not hit the basement whenever they report rotations/funnel clouds 3-4 miles from my house...whoops.

Granted, our basement is wet, moldy, and smells rather like cat urine, so that should probably be taken into consideration.

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

I try to monitor weather via the internet, too (although I did a pretty crappy job of that when I was at Bread Co. the other day), but it's rather hard to keep up with radar on dialup. Imagine that!

Randomness: My laptop seems to sort of be doing what yours is doing. >/ At least I can kind of coax it into charging, though. And I read something on the LJ GW community about people developing a program to let GW run on OSX, so I'm hoping to be back once school starts. *crosses fingers* Though I'm sad to miss the preview event for the next chapter. The new classes don't sound terribly fabulous to me.

*stops spamming Wendy's journal*

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

O.o You want to go NEAR windows when there's a funnel cloud? See, those are conditions when I'd be heading to the basement - in fact, I'd only head to the basement for a funnel cloud, or if it was hailing (actually, hailing just gets me down in the kitchen).

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yeah - to SEE it! Cuz how cool is that!

We don't get tornadoes down here so it's all exciting and stuff.

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll* Yeah, well, some of us were trained from an early age to hide under our desks and cover our necks in the event of a tornado.

No, wait, that's earthquakes. Tornadoes were kneeling against an interior windowless wall with our hands over our necks.

Oh, duck and cover, how you've shaped future generations' safety drills for years to come.

[naboosenator.livejournal.com]

Force! Sounds very scary. We don't usually get tornadoes on Naboo but my typist was almost in one once. Thank the Force it didn't actually happen.

~Padme

((P.S. My typist wants to know if she can friend your flowerytease journal even though she's not a member of omg_lightsaber. She really enjoys reading it and would like to see more!))

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Sure! But I'm not responsible for corrupting your typist :) - I'll friend her back so she can read the locked stuff. It won't all make sense without being a part of the game but she could get the jist of it. And maybe she'd want to play a character there...? /pimp

Padme is my least-played character there, sadly. I want to keep her in-character so she doesn't really get into all the cracked-out stuff everyone else is doing. She's at a pool party right now hosted by OOC!Ani but IC!Ani hasn't shown up yet.

((erm.. reposted this to correct typo!))

[naboosenator.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, my typist accepts full responsibility for being corrupted herself. ;) She has friended the journal and is eagerly waiting to be added back. She hasn't yet decided on whether she'll play a character there yet (playing me is somewhat of a full-time job right now), but she is definitely considering it! :D

LOL that's okay. My typist just wants to get another perspective of RPing me and besides, she thinks you have captured me very well and probably better than she ever could.

~Padme

((Yay for talking about oneself in the third person, lol.))

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You're so sweet! Your entries are very IC. More so than my Padme ones, really. You've captured her very well. Even though we have IC and OOC characters, it's a crack RP so we take certain liberties. And you may notice that lots of earthly things have crept in there (food, music, movies) - more serious RPGs frown on that.

[naboosenator.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! I'm blushing! Some weird stuff has definitely been going on with my RPing lately too ... due mostly to my friend's wacky sense of humour, lol. The earthly things make it kinda cool IMO. Hey, if it's not serious, why not do it? *grin*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

P.S. Yeah there's lots of schizo things that happen at omg!ls because everyone has more than one character. I only have three, some people have like, 6 or 7 characters.

If you have any questions, I love to babble about that game. You could stalk some of the other character journals too - some people forget to lock their sex ones *cough* But not me, naturally :) Even if you don't end up joining, there's some funny stuff there.

[naboosenator.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I've noticed ... I went on some of the other character journals yesterday and was literally rolling on the floor laughing at some of the stuff. Though I have to say I particularly enjoyed the scenes where Padme de-ages by ten years. Hehehe poor Anakin! ;D

I think I'll take another stroll by the community today and see who's still available to play, if anyone ... this RPing business is addictive.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

That was a fun story. I liked how he freaked and kept hitting his head in the beginning. I always get amused when characters interact with their doubles too, and that first scene had both Anakins in it. :)
We typists are quite evil to our characters!

The mod is darthsemicolon - don't be afraid to poke her and ask her stuff too.

I should just hand over my Padme to you since you're more into playing her than I am. Heh.

[naboosenator.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *chuckle* Well, I can't say I'm immune, I'm pretty mean to Padme at times.

Thanks! I would love to take over your Padme journal, if you feel so inclined -- I mean I don't want to force you to give it up (hahaha pun) but if you want to, sure. I'm on here most every day so probably wouldn't have any trouble keeping it up to date lol.

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

Tonight I snogged a very close friend. I am quite drunk, but I know what I did. Am I a bad man? I'm very close with her, but we never went this far. We'vew been very close for a wghlew/ Nothing more is goping to happen. Should I ffel guily? Do I? I don't know. I don't want to lose her as a frfiend. She means a lot to me. Please hepo me, oh wise one, I trust you judge,ent. Can dfriewndship still work? I'd like to think so. But I'm not sure. Can you snog a friend, with intention ,mshne get away with it?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yay for drunk Kev!
Okay, this time I know you're drunk cuz of the typos. I bet you're passed out right now and you won't get this comment in your email 'til morning, and you'll look at it and go WTF...? (not "what the fuck" because you're trying not to swear. Has to be WTF. *nods*)

My oh-so-wise answer is... it depends.

Heeee! Maybe we can talk about it when you're sober. You really should get on AIM, ya know.

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

I don't want AIM, I chat too much online as it is. You get messenger!

[hourglassfull.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmh... lightning.

*orgasms*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

*glomp!*
Hey I haven't seen you online lately. How ya been?
I was gonna ask you about something. But not in comments, in AIM.

[hourglassfull.livejournal.com]

I've been around. Things just keep, y'know, happening.

[hourglassfull.livejournal.com]

OH DUH!!! You probably don't have my new AIM name! I'm angelicgrey. -__-

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

That would explain why I haven't seen you, yes :)

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

OOoh how exciting! We get huge summers storms in my part of Oz, with hail and everything, but no tornadoes. There were some hurricanes up North recently that caused some severe damage though :S. I have always wanted to experience a hurricane or a tornado, nothing too bad of course! So yay for storm love!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

So you understand! I think the ones who have lived through 'em think we're nutso. Like how when I was a kid I used to wish I could break my leg, so I could have a cool cast and walk around on crutches and get lots of attention. And then when I broke my wrist I found out how very un-fun it all is :)

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Lol yeah, it's like people who haven't been on planes think it would be so much fun! to fly! Um not really. I always end up horribly cramped (especially as I havelong legs,) the person in front of me puts their seat right back, so that when I eat the tray table is basically jamed into my stomach, there is always a kid behind who kicks my seat, the film is nearly always crap (though I will always be grateful to one flight I took as a kid that introduced me to AbFab.) and one is generally trapped and cramped and bored. :S. Can u tell I don't like flying? :P
I do know plenty of people who don't like storms, but they excite me, they're - electric! ;)