DanicaX’s BodyBlog

I mean…..er…..Cox sucks! Good thing I have Qwest and my internet is up and working after a super crazy storm yesterday.  Good job, Qwest……Ok, that’s enough. I don’t need you getting a big fat head and raising my prices.  And now let me tell a story of how I almost died yesterday. Ok, well not me….but I have a tiny little cactus that almost died.
 
Yesterday afternoon it was beautiful, sunny weather. I rode my bike to the track. I didn’t get hit by a car, I didn’t get pooped on by any birds….things were looking up. I get home, get in the shower, when I get out I hear all this thumping and bumping around. Something was going down. Was the SWAT team beating my house in? Is my house getting egged by neigborhood hoodlums? Not this time. I look outside and there is hail and massive rain and wind. I’d never seen anything like it. It was just insane….I was actually scared and started to go down to the basement, but not before I went out on the balcony to rescue my little cactus. I put him out there during the day to get some sunshine. I left him out one night and he got tossed around by wind and got knocked out of his pot and thrown about. So I put him in a coffee mug and there I kept him, nice and snug. Kinda like Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater….only with a cactus, and a coffee mug.  Same diff
 
Anyways, the storm…it was crazy. It came and went very quick, then got sunny, but there was hail in my yard when I was leaving for work. I took a pic!

So I start driving…there were trees across the roads, branches everywhere, signs down, barricades all over the interstate knocked over. There was seriously a guy…just a regular passerby guy, who was directing traffic around a tree in the middle of the road. He was a take-charge kinda guy. There was a Harley Davidson on its side in the interstate. I don’t know where it came from…perhaps it got blown off a truck or something. Two 18 year old kids died, too, when a tree fell on their car. It was awful, but I’m surprised nobody else got hurt. Well, I’m sure they did. There was supposed to be a big fireworks show last night and people were out there all day long. Some people didn’t  leave (cuckoo…) and this lady had bruises all over her body from the hail.  Power was out, there were trees across power lines everywhere, just a big mess.
 
Oh, anyways….all my neigbors have Cox (cable/internet/phone) and still don’t have service. I, however, like to go with the underdog company (plus I’m boycotting Cox b/c they really pissed me off a few years ago). See, I was right all along.
 
So I get off work this morning and drive home. It was like driving through a forest. The roads were all green with tree leaves, there were limbs everywhere. I get home and change to go walk my big fancy prancing dog. See, he’s extremely gay, yet he tries to act tough and fight with other dogs. So we go outside and here comes this dog out of nowhere. It was some kind of spaniel dog and it was about 0.25 the size of big gay boy. He didn’t care. He had to act like he wanted to fight with it. So in the middle of acting like a spaz to get to the other dog, he slipped on some sand in the street, fell and almost went down in the gutter. I’ve always been afraid of him falling down there!
 
So, of course I have to save the dog….This dog was hyper, he looked like he’d been through storm, he smelled AWFUL, all wet….he was looking pretty rough. I got him corraled in my garage where he proceeded to jump on top of my car. I gave him water, food, some cash money…there was just no calming him down. He was a horrible mess of a dog. I called the humane society, but they wouldn’t be able to come get him for hours. He had on this terribly worn and beaten up nylon collar, but it had a phone number embroidered on it which was almost impossible to read. Eventually I reached the owner who didn’t live too far away and I met him to give him back. Just another animal saving Saturday….why is it always a Saturday? Are these critters all drunk and disoriented from a night long of boozing it up? That snapping turtle a few weeks ago was definitely all hyped up on something.
 
Weather is good now. All sunny…..the cactus is already out there soaking up some sun. Hopefully a bike ride to the gym today, but there will definitely be some puddles I’ll have to peddle through. Hope everyone has a good weekend

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