Zzzzzzzzzz

Beyond exhausted today.  My air conditioning system decided to go butter side down while I was at work yesterday.  The landlord is 'working on it'.  As of now no go. It was 86 degrees in house last night.  Fans and open windows don't do spit when it's in the 80s outside.  *shudders* and so if the hurricane does hit I will not be a happy camper.  Tonight if it's not fixed I may ask ever so sweetly (see fangs) that the landlord put me up in a hotel as required.  We will see. 

Yes I know

Wicked weather heading this way.  I consider it research for my current episodes of The Complex.  My vampire is in middle of hurricane.  I always think it is helpful to experience what I can of my characters issues.  Given I am not tapping a vein any time soon I'll go with blustery weather.

*hangs head and grins slightly knowing how wrong this is*

Isaac ...not just an employee on the "Love Boat"...but exciting and new.....

Another shot

I was trying to add this picture this morning because it is deep and dark in all the right spots.

Warm and stormy

This was the beginning of last night's storm.  Last three or four evenings have been electrifying so to speak.  I was sitting out back with my friend Suzanne and the clouds were rolling around the area on Saturday.  A few stray rain drops and we were still enjoying the pool and the sun.  Then in the distance over the ocean we saw a huge lightning bolt go from approximately the height of these clouds pictured above and hit the ocean.  Figuring if we could see the storm the lightning could certainly find us next to the large body of water and the tall telephone pole in the corner of the yard we headed inside. 

First day of school around here so the highways were fairly deserted but the McDonalds full as moms ready their kids to fall asleep in school. 

The Heat is On

With the warm waters off shore and the blazing days of August the evenings aren't dropping below 80 degrees at night.  It means I take many walks to feed the local state bird (mosquito naturally) and hope to get a cooling breeze to break up the sweat.  The sky gets my attention all the time because of the layers of clouds and different types of clouds.  I tried to snap a picture of dog shaped clouds on way into work this morning but haven't uploaded them yet to see how they turned out.

I did get some more words in yesterday.  I want to write all weekend and am hoping for some weather to keep the visitors down.  It never seems to work that way.  The weekends that are supposed to be rained out end up gorgeous and I have friends visiting and enjoy the pool.  The weekends I have predictions of zero chance of rain end up being gully washers (old western movies talked about them when the rains would slosh down the sides of the sandstone canyons and cause the 'crick' to rise and threaten the town).

*crosses fingers for rain*

Middle of August already???

This time flying stuff is really getting pretty ridiculous.  I mean wasn't I just whining about it being June or something?  I've been writing in smatterings but definitely not enough to keep the vampires and werewolves at bay.  The nightmare landscape has gone supernova and I know that means I need to write more.  It just seems like there keeps being real life obstacles that are time consuming at best and horrific on average.  The ripples are still bouncing out from my Director's passing.  He'd kept far more in secret than the higher ups ever knew.  My new departmental supervisor simply rubber stamps her emails right to me to handle.  At times I can but other times way above my pay grade.  The result is come lunch time - the hour I usually get to empty my mind and write - I am growling in all the wrong places.

My folks naturally want me to find a job out their way again.  That doesn't make psycho ex disappear so I don't see myself opening that door up any time soon.  My uncle's death hit my mom pretty hard even though he'd had been mentally gone for so long.  Alzheimer's is not a glamorous death on any level.  It robs a family of a loved one long before the body gives out.  My dad did dig up a lot of pictures and the cousins used them in the memories of my uncle.  I pointed out to my dad that the heatwave out their way was worse than here because here there is a/c and no power outtages. 

Well time to work.  Hope you all have a great day.

August hot and steamy

It poured rain on and off today.  More expected this evening with thunderstorms.  Naturally I want to get pictures of the lightning but at the same time I have a healthy respect for electricity. 

Not writing nearly enough.  My tale is eating into my brain and my nightmares have definitely taken on a bizzaro-land turn or three.  One where I watched from the sidelines as an evil woman slipped her body into a tub of what seemed to be water in order to escape the consequences of something (sort of like a Criminal Minds episode feeling) and the male cop figure reached down into the liquid to grasp her as her face begins to slough off and her skin melts away while she is gargling and cackling pulling him into the apparent acid.  I said something in the dream like, "Why wasn't she screaming in pain?"

Then I snap away with bad leg cramp.  Yeah, I drank water immediately. 

Another twist and turn has a creature from the pond near my work coming up from the water wanting to snack on me.  And NOT in a good way.

If it really does rain like promise all weekend I need to get more words out.