It's the calm before the storm...

[rebecca_in_blue]

Grandma's house was packed (and I mean packed) yesterday with relatives, friends, and people I'd never met. We were having a several-weeks-late wedding reception for my cousin and his new wife. There was chicken in gravy, rice dressing, shrimp fetucinni, crawfish pie, wedding cake, German chocolate cake, and a big bowl of ginger ale and lime sherbert, which is my favorite punch in the world. I was tempted to pick up the punch bowl and drink straight from that, but somehow I restrained myself. Anyway, Grandma's house was very hectic and noisy, and we called it "Hurricane Comeaux."

Today is Eva's birthday (she's 11!), and Adam and I went over to visit her. I had made her another YouTube video like I had for last year, but there was something wrong with the JavaScript on her computer, so she couldn't watch it. While we were there, Adam got a nosebleed for no apparent reason, and on the way back he got blood all over my truck. Driving there and back was like going through a ghost town. One of the busiest streets was completely empty, all five lanes of it, for as far as I could see, and nearly all the businesses were closed and boarded up.

We're doing what we usually do in the face of hurricanes: nothing. I brought in most of our outside things that could've been blown around (my hibiscus plants, etc.) but we haven't boarded up the windows or sand-bagged the house like most of our neighbors have. I'm really only worried about our feral kittens and semi-feral cat. I would bring them inside if I could, but I doubt they would let me.

Meanwhile our computer, which has always worked fine, suddenly started acting like a piece of crap a few days ago. My sibs and I have been trying to figure out what the fuck went wrong, but we haven't had any luck yet. Very frustrating.