28 year old
Pagan female who lives in Florida with her guy and two cats,
loves Disney, reads fanatically, tinkers in photography and
believes growing up is overrated.
There are people on the net that have nothing better to do
with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
Tooth
Drive:
I need to
raise over $850 for critically needed dental
work. I'll be listing my hand made
jewelry, bracelets,
earrings, necklaces and horns
for sale to try to raise the desperately needed funds.
Every order helps. I can accept paypal payments at
webmaster@giveneyestosee.com
or check/money orders at:
M. Turner
PO Box 1484, Elfers, FL 34684
Thank you for your help and support.
I've also set
up a
tooth fund for anyone
wanted to donate without purchase.
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Intensity of Storms Before all the ezboard oddness (which still isn't anywhere near resolved), I had planned on writing an entry about the storms last night. It was insane. I can't recall the last time we had such an intense set of storms.
Sometime after 4am, Love and I both woke up to a hard downpour. But more then that, the lightning was hitting so hard and fast it was like a strobe light. And of course, with lightning comes thunder. Massive, rolling peels of it, one right on top of another, racing through the clouds and shaking the very buildings. There is a reason that not only Florida, but this area of West-Central Florida is the Lightning Capital of the country and ranks in the top list of locations in the world.
It's impossible to describe the sheer, raw force of the storm last night. Just as the storm started to move on, a second cell came right in it's place. We had almost two hours of non-stop storms. It got so bad that after awhile, I actually pulled the covers up over my head to stop the strobe-effect from the lightning. Doesn't matter if you close your eyes and have your mini-blinds pulled closed; when the lightning is almost constant, your world becomes piercing flickers.
Which brings me to right now. More storms are moving in off of the Gulf. They're on their way this very moment. I step out onto my balcony and I see the sky is already flashing over and over with high cloud lightning. Soon, it'll be upon us again.
It's facinating and terrifying all at the same time; the sheer power of Nature in all Her glory. Tonight, we get an encore performance. It's going to be a hell of a night.
Edit 11:10pm To show how bright just this cloud lightning is - not the full bolts to come - take a look at these two shots.
The first is my parking lot at night normally, the second is mid sky lightning burst.
