delight in life

browsing teh interwebs

Firefox 3 is totally boss.

That is all.

this is what i did last weekend:

I watched my littlest sister graduate from high school.



Sweet deal. I'm proud of you, dude.

sideways

 
Right before I came home a few weeks ago, I made this mini book about my trip to NYC in April. I sat down and did it all in one night because I wanted to bring it home to show Mom, since she was on the trip. I want to share, but I have to put just a few touches on it, like some paint and a title on the cover.

let me just tell you, i feel really smart right now.

I've been remembering to take my daily picture, for the most part, but I've been really bad about uploading them. I just uploaded a whole batch of them to flickr, and I made this sweet mosaic with bighugelabs and my own genius.

(Okay, genius may be a slight exaggeration, but you can decide for yourself: click on any of the pictures in the mosaic, and it will take you directly to that photo's flickr page. All together now: ooooooooohh!)

let's just say it one more time: i hate tornadoes.

I really, really, really hate tornadoes.

My family minus one went to the Braves game last night, and it was fantastic, once it started. At 6:30 we were on our way, and I checked weather.com from my SUPER AWESOME phone and saw we were under a tornado warning.  Warning. That's the one where they've already seen one on the ground. They'd seen one relatively close to my home and where my youngest sister was working, and it was headed closer. Mom and Dad call Cara and tell her to take cover. I begin crying in the backseat.

The good news was that the storm was moving fast, so if something was going to happen it would happen soon.

The great news is that nothing happened. I don't know what happened to that tornado but it didn't come close to Cara's work or our home.

So I calmed down. As we walked into the stadium, I checked weather.com again. New tornado warning. This time for downtown Atlanta. Hi. That's where we are. Cue Leah's second freak out of the evening. As we walked the halls of the luxury level where Dad had gotten our tickets, he pointed out to me that we were basically in a solid block of concrete. I told him I'd rather be underground, but eventually realized he had a point. Then I checked weather.com AGAIN and found out that the tornado warning had been canceled! Fabulous.

Then the rain started. (The game was already on rain delay but there'd been no rain so far.) It started and BOY DID IT RAIN. Heavy, ferocious rain with crazy gusts of wind. But we found some inside bar seats and chilled until it passed.
This was our view. There was torrential rain outside that window, though you can't tell from the picture.

All of the sudden Mom turned around and said, What's that light over there?

So I went to check it out and this is what I saw:

(it was still totally grey out our window.) Incredible.

So after an hour and forty minute rain delay, the game started. The Braves won and popped into second place. It was awesome.

But seriously. I hate tornadoes.

cara told me i should do this instead.

It is definitely way better than that lame youtube video I posted a few days ago. So, new favorite song, take 2.

THE INTERNET IS AWESOME.

THE INTERNET IS SO AWESOME.

My mother is in Berlin, Germany right now. She sang the Berlioz Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker (and the rest of the ASOC) this week. I wanted to go. But, I don't have a passport, or 1500 dollars. Also, despite three semesters of German class, I don't understand the language.

BUT. YESTERDAY.

At 2 pm, in my living room, we listened to their final concert in Germany, live.  AND IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

My mother was singing on a giant stage halfway around the world, and we got to listen to it live on our comfy couches and with our sweet surround sound. I LOVE THE INTERNET.

this is my new favorite song.

by my favorite singers.

goodbye, thursday.

I fell asleep last night excited about today. It was going to be a Thursday-GOday. I had this great list of things to do, and I was going to get up, shower, get some Starbucks, and rock-and-roll all the way through the day. I woke up at 7:55 - right on track.

Unfortunately, then I went back to bed, and that's right about where I lost it.

I woke up again at 12:31. PM. Lunchtime. Oops. AND it was pouring rain. Yuck.

I still got about half of my list done, but it was not the über-productive day I was shooting for. Oh well - there's always tomorrow.

The Office, however, DID live up to my expectations. That one BIG HUGE MOMENT - you know what I am talking about - didn't happen, and I was very very upset about that. (I am far too invested in this show.) But overall, it was perfect. And awesome. The best episode of the season.

It's midnight. Goodbye Thursday. Hello Friday. Let's have a good day.