Fizzled Storms and Nightmares

Oh, what a week... Work has been so busy and disappointing. My new database is live and working pretty well. Just as I am crosstraining into another function for two months... I had to train my coworker on this and with this coworker, it requires a great deal of patience. There is a bit of a language barrier and a different way of thinking. I tend to think more laterally and she more sporadically. It always throws the rest of us. The top of her desk throws us as well. Not everyone is neat, but the top of her desk is tornadic! This is also the coworker that we helped move on my birthday several years ago. They were moving from an apartment into a house and had NOTHING packed. She and her husband are both clueless in this world. Raising their children is laughable to hear about. She is confused about the school system and believes that the teachers should know her children intimately and take care of their behavior issues. She and her husband went to parenting classes awhile ago, and this made me quite happy. They weren't doing well at the time.
She is originally from Hong Kong and has had a different life than just the culture would suppose. Her husband is quite a bit older than her and sports back, neck and shoulder hair that would make java man jealous. She is an attractive girl and what attracted her to him in the first place - not to mention the implications involved with having his children - confounds us all.
Shortly after they moved into their home, he set up his computer with a cable modem for the first time. When she finally went on, she noticed that a porn-site was on his home page. He told her that it came that way. When she told us that, we clarified that, no, ISP home pages do not automatically have porn-sites.
After the doctor told her to go ahead and switch her son to regular milk instead of formula, she heeded his advice, but wouldn't let the formula go to waste. She brought it to work and drank it herself. She is also notorious for, when finding out someone is pregnant, having her first question be: are you going to breastfeed? She has been quite slow in learning these cultural nuances. But she is herself and quite a character at that!

Okay, the storms... When I went on storm-chasers' blogs last week, it was sounding quite exciting! There was snow to the west, a cold front coming in and moisture from the gulf. One of the chasers said that the set up was "insane". I was up late that night, of course, and what the heck, it fizzled just to the southwest of us. Damn! As I used to say, "We need a heavy-metal kickass storm!" A few windows rattling and sharp white lightning, with pounding loud thunder would be nice. But, the forecast seems to show that all the storms are on my class nights. Thanks! I am trying to talk my teacher into going to spotter training. He is from Lebanon and they didn't have exciting weather there at all. He said no one watched the weather because in the summer they knew it would heat up one degree each day and in the winter it would cool down one degree each day. The weather, I suppose was the least of their worries!

I experienced one heck of a night last night. The 'hood was crazy. The dogs were going apeshit! People were walking through all hours of the night loud and probaby drunk! Noises that I really didn't want to investigate! Screeching tires and honking. I think there must be a new shipment in! Between these wakeful moments I slept a most unrestful sleep. My dreams were horrid! I was dreaming of the wind that just kept blowing. My flowers were sagging in their planters and in the ground, but it didn't do any good to water them because they would just dry out again. Houses were blowing apart because of the wind. The house, although all shut up was still breezy because of the fierce wind. It just kept blowing and blowing. I also had scorpions all over the house. They were in my bed, under my bed, in the doorways and all over! They were red like lobsters, which offset the black of the huge black long-legged spiders. These were spiders that you couldn't possibly step on they were huge and their exoskeletons were so hard. I couldn't get away from it. As soon as I left a room they were in, I walked into another and they were crawling under the doors and out from the darkened corners.

Obviously my mind is busy. I think I will clean the house today and see if I can't get some studying done and maybe take a nap - just in case tonight is like last night. I really couldn't call the police and say that the neighborhood was wild - because it was all transient. I feel like I should talk to someone there and see what in the heck is going on!?! Is it a full moon? Statistically that isn't supposed to matter. Whatever it is, it is really leaving me and the dogs on edge.