they say this is going to be a "more active than usual" hurricane season. this sucks. of course, that's also what they said LAST year and we had not one hurricane! *knock on wood*
chris got hurricane windows put in a couple of weeks ago, so that should be interesting. this is also an evacuation zone, so i don't know the deal with that, but for the minor storms we can stay here and watch it all through the thick hurricane-safe glass.
chris be in texas for his baby sister's graduation. there was a bomb threat, so they had to move location at the last moment. at least there was no bomb.
i dropped the one math class. i wasn't planning on cancelling my wisconsin trip for a midterm that could not be moved only because the teacher was being a hardass. and, guess what! that also means we can go to the caymans on the original weekend that worked out well for chris workwise - the day we leave also happens to be the exact day my other two classes end - and which also happens to be the weekend of our anniversary. :) so that's nice. best diving on the continent, they say.
aforementioned "busier than average" hurricane season had better not interfere, or there will be hell to pay.
tonight is a beautiful night. beeeeeeeautiful! SUPER breezy. ocean looked pretty scary, though. seas 6-8 feet!
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
