learn to swim

well, today there were HUGE storms that snuck in during the evening. They actually freaked me out a little bit. They definitely freaked out my cats.

 We have 2 doors into our apt - an outside door downstairs and another lockable one upstairs. Hubby left the downstairs one unlocked, and consequently it blew open in the storm. I ran down the stairs to close and lock it up and my calico followed (cuz she loves going where she shouldn't). I couldn't lure her back upstairs right away. Usually she lays on the cement next to the door until she gets tired or bored - which could be hours. Well a huge crash of thunder came shortly after i got upstairs and all of the sudden she came STREAKING into the dining room. And ever since then she creeps up on the door (upstairs) cautiously like it's gonna reach out and attack her.

The other cat just crawled under the bed until the worst passed.

Funnily tho, when it was all over, a friend of mine on fb (from HS) posted a pic of her hubby on a raft floating down their street - just a few blocks from where i live. their entire street was like a river (learn to swim) Luckily we didn't get any flooding - altho the utility room is a little damp.

life in general

i'm getting ready to head over to hubby's new job so we can walk home together. i love that he's working so close. He told me yesterday that in 2 weeks he's spent less than $20 in gas (cuz he can walk to work) contrast that with $40 every 4 days at his former job. so eventually - when we get the bank to get their head out of their azz - we will be saving money.

Also gonna try and do NaBloPoMo for the month of July. The official theme is "swim" but we're free to write about whatever we want. Plus with a couple art fairs coming up i'm sure i'll have some stories to tell.

kk - on my way. catch you on the flipside.

frickin banks!!!!!

so currently we are fighting with our bank. first of all they signed us up for overdraft protection without us opting into it. Then they charged us an overdraft fee FOR AN OVERDRAFT FEE!!!! WTF!!!!!

hubby is going in to the bank tomorrow to fight with them - this is just ridiculous. Seriously if we didn't need a bank to handle payments and the like we would just close this damn account and walk away.