running in the rain
Feb. 3rd, 2006 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marathoner452For one thing, today is my 1/2 birthday. 22 1/2. Wow, time flies when you're having fun-I'm a quarter of the way to 30. Yeesh.
For another thing, NOAA announced yesterday that we have a La Nina system affecting our weather, which would explain why it's been so warm and wet but with almost no snow. I mention this because it also means there's a good chance we'll have a bad hurricane season. Maybe worse than the last 2 years, which means I know what I'll be doing this summer-lots of Red Cross deployments. Good experience for me, but geez, give those people a break. The last two years have been bad enough.
And speaking of weather, I had a thoroughly enjoyable run last night, and not just because my legs finally loosened up to the point where they weren't stiff as tree trunks. It was raining, just a little, and it was just warm enough that it was very refreshing. I love the smell of the woods at the end of my street when it rains-it reminds me of my Outward Bound Swap-Ya 2 1/2 years ago where we camped out under a tarp. Open-air campsite and we got a terrific thunderstorm that night-thunder and lightening and all kinds of rain but we stayed bone-dry thanks to the OB instructors who expertly rigged our tarp. That would be why I'm searching rather intensely for cheap airfares to Minnesota-there's another Swap-Ya there in late April. I've got it down to $416 round-trip, but I'm not sure if I've got the dates right.
That is all.
~Bethany
For another thing, NOAA announced yesterday that we have a La Nina system affecting our weather, which would explain why it's been so warm and wet but with almost no snow. I mention this because it also means there's a good chance we'll have a bad hurricane season. Maybe worse than the last 2 years, which means I know what I'll be doing this summer-lots of Red Cross deployments. Good experience for me, but geez, give those people a break. The last two years have been bad enough.
And speaking of weather, I had a thoroughly enjoyable run last night, and not just because my legs finally loosened up to the point where they weren't stiff as tree trunks. It was raining, just a little, and it was just warm enough that it was very refreshing. I love the smell of the woods at the end of my street when it rains-it reminds me of my Outward Bound Swap-Ya 2 1/2 years ago where we camped out under a tarp. Open-air campsite and we got a terrific thunderstorm that night-thunder and lightening and all kinds of rain but we stayed bone-dry thanks to the OB instructors who expertly rigged our tarp. That would be why I'm searching rather intensely for cheap airfares to Minnesota-there's another Swap-Ya there in late April. I've got it down to $416 round-trip, but I'm not sure if I've got the dates right.
That is all.
~Bethany
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Date: 2006-02-03 04:14 pm (UTC)And happy half-birthday. :-) See you tonight. :-D
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Date: 2006-02-03 08:00 pm (UTC)