Haven't updated in awhile...

So apparently I'm not doing as well with this whole blogging thing as I thought I would do... lol  Oh well, at least I'm trying! :)

So since my last post, alot of things have happened...  The main thing being...

I survived the West Tennessee Monsoon!  That was seriously a weird weekend.  After going to bed about 1:00 am, I woke up about 4:30 that Saturday morning having had a dream about the sirens going off.  I laid there thinking that that was a strange dream, but that it was probably because of the storm that was going on outside.  About the time that I turned the TV on to WBBJ to see what the Gary/Nick/Mike had to say about the storms, the sirens went off for what I soon figured out was the second time... Usually the first siren means a severe thunderstorm warning and the second time is a tornado warning, which is what this was. (Yeah, I know... Tennessee's weird about their sirens.)  I don't start getting scared until I hear of a tornado that has been confirmed instead of just indicated by radar, but once it's confirmed to be within 10-15 minutes of me, I'm hiding in my laundry room! lol  My friend Olivia gets really scared whenever it's a bad storm, regardless of whether or not the sirens are going off, so I called her and asked her if she was in her closet.  We talked for a few minutes and I told her what the radar meant and everything.  So about 5:30 when all the warnings expired, I went back to bed.

At 7:00 am the sirens started going off again...  So I turned the TV back on and then Olivia called me asking what this siren meant.  It was a tornado warning.  Go figure... A tornado warning that didn't come after a severe thunderstorm warning... Anyway, I looked at the radar, saw it wasn't going to hit Henderson, so I tried to go back to sleep.  A little while later, it went off again and I gave up on going back to sleep.  The sirens went off 5 times that morning...  (5 hours of sleep that night...)

That afternoon it was still stormy, but Olivia and I have a tradition of going to the FHU Tea Party, and we already had the tickets, so when we heard it was still on, we went.  Funny thing was... Most of Henderson didn't have electricity... Neither did the Henderson church of Christ, which is where it had been moved to because of the weather.  So we went to a tea party in the dark and we left when we heard that they were running out of hot water.  We went driving around looking at all of the ponds/lakes that had formed in normally dry places, and it was something to see.

I ended up over at Olivia's house again that evening.  We watched TV and played online and stuff, and I left for home about midnight, cause we usually go to the early service.  I went to bed around 1:00 again... And at 3:30, the sirens started going off again.  I checked the Weather Channel website and it was a severe thunderstorm warning.  They went off again about 3:45 and after I checked WBBJ, I called Olivia because WBBJ said that a tornado had been confirmed in Northern McNairy county... I live in Southern Chester, so that was like 10 minutes from us.  I think Olivia could tell I was getting freaked out cause she just asked me "You coming?" lol  I told her to let me grab a couple of things and I'd be there in about 10 minutes.  So at 4:05 am, I'm driving in a tornado warning going to a friends house so I don't have to be by myself!  I felt like such a wimp! lol  So we watched the radar and heard the sirens go off a few more times, and about 6:30am, decided it was time to go to bed.  We debated about going to church the next morning, cause with 5 hours of sleep the night before and roughly 3 that night, we knew we'd fall asleep anyway... So we practiced our heathen skills and slept until about 10 that morning and then went and got Jack's for breakfast in our PJ's with our hair in ponytails and no make-up. :)  We hung out until that afternoon when I went home and took a shower and got ready for church.

That night at church was kind of funny because apparently everyone had the same idea that we had had about skipping the morning service and coming for the evening one, because so many people got up to take the Lord's Supper that they had to move it from the classroom they normally use to the Activity Center! lol  It made us feel better about being heathens!

Then we found out that Olivia and I didn't have to go to work on Monday because of all the flooding... So we hung out until late that night, slept late Monday, and went to Jackson, even though they had gotten over a foot of rain and a bunch of the roads were flooded.  The flooding on the way was sure something... Cow fields looked like lakes, some roads had 2 or more feet of water on them, and the Sonic in South Jackson had water all the way up to the speakers.  There was a car lot that had a row of the big pick-up trucks, and all you could see of those trucks were the tops and a bunch of their cars were completely submerged.  The Jackson fairgrounds were completely cut off from the roads and that alone was a sight to behold.  The ponds at the entrance had flooded so much that you couldn't even see the entrance to it.  They actually closed highway 45 between Jackson and Henderson while we were in Jackson, but we didn't worry about it cause we could always get home through Lexington, even though it was about an hour out of the way... We wanted to go to Old Town Spaghetti, Books-A-Million, Starbucks, and then go for pedicures... Let me just say... That was THE best pedicure I've ever gotten! :) Definitely worth driving to Jackson for!  When we were done, we decided to head out on 45 and see if they had reopened it... Yup!  It was open!  There was one section of about 15-20 feet that had MAYBE an inch of water running over it, but that was no big deal.

So yeah... That's a first hand account of someone who is very glad that she didn't live in South Jackson or Nashville and that her house is located on very flat land nowhere close to a creek of any kind!

Since then, I haven't really done much... Helped Olivia do her flower beds last Saturday.  I was sooo sore Sunday and Monday!  The gardening part I like... The objections that I get from my muscles the day after?  Not so much!  We pulled out all kinds of weeds, pruned all of her bushes back, pulled up 3 bushes that had been there for several years (one of which was a thorn bush... Nasty little thing!), and then planted all kinds of flowers.  We were so dirty, but it was alot of fun!

That's pretty much the big things from my past month or so...