Rain and Some More Rain

Okay, I know people that live in Minnesota or wherever think we Californians are a bunch of whiny babies when it comes to rain, but when you live in a desert, rain is front page news and all of the TV news stations are on STORM WATCH!!! We don't get that much rain here and this weekend we broke records for rainfall that had been standing since the 1930's here in Kern County. It rained a lot and is still raining.

So, we basically stayed inside all weekend, opening a window so we could actually hear the rain. The system is coming in from Hawaii so the temps are not so cold as with most rainstorms. Our local news showed kids kayaking in their flooded street yesterday.

We aren't having any problems yet in our neighborhood, but in mountain areas of California there is always threats of mudslides and flash floods and rivers overflowing, and this storm is supposed to last well into the week and then another one comes in next weekend.

After nobody really knowing what was going on and getting conflicting stories from people who should know what's going on, Keith found out that his work will indeed pay them for Christmas Eve as a holiday since normally they would get paid for Christmas if it fell on a weekday, so pretty much everyone is taking the Eve off and then they get another three day weekend for New Year's so that works out well. For his Christmas present I will let him relax and do whatever he wants instead of nagging him to get something done around here. I let him vegetate on the couch all day yesterday watching football.

I've been getting my holiday rush in my shops, so nice to actually wake up to some orders and have packages to take to the post office. This is what online selling is supposed to be about, not waking up to an empty inbox and no sales.

I woke up really really early this morning, at 4:30, and was so hungry that I couldn't get back to sleep, so just went ahead and got up and fed the cats and made the coffee. I'll probably crash and burn around 2pm, though.

Silly Mimi and Other Stuff

I'm up really really early today. Because at 4:30 Keith turned on the heater and I felt like I was being broiled alive in the bed. Our heater works almost too well down here in the bedroom and if you are in bed covered up in a comforter it gets really really hot.

So, I just went ahead and got up. Keith was sitting on the couch covered up in a blanket from head to toe because it was still cold out there.

As he's getting ready for work, he says in a tone of voice usually reserved for things like having to go to the dentist, oh, yeah, the company Christmas party is this weekend, isn't it? And I said, yes, in that same tone of voice of complete dread, but we ARE NOT doing the gift exchange this year. We don't buy gifts for each other, so why in the world are we buying a gift for someone you don't really know all that well and don't really want to know all that well, and in return getting some crappy dollar store last minute we have to bring a gift and this piece of crap will do. Like his battery operated massaging slippers that he got last year that were the stupidest things I'd ever seen and really uncomfortable on top of being incredibly stupid. The slippers that someone got for Christmas the year before and never used because they were so stupid and decided to re-gift them at the Christmas party so that they wouldn't have to go out and buy something new.

Anyway. Ho, ho, ho, and aren't we full of the holiday spirit this year? Keith wants to move to a country that doesn't celebrate Christmas, but I told him that then we'd have to celebrate some other holiday like fasting for a month or something.

This was weird the other day. Pepper actually allowing not one, but TWO other cats to share her couch. Although she does look somewhat annoyed by having to share.


Mimi was trying to squeeze herself into a tiny basket. She tried and tried and tried.