Category: Diary

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

And it’s finally warming up!

I could even take Marie for a walk without freezing her little toes!!!

Poor Marie.

I’m starting to wonder about Texas.  In 2021 we get this huge freak snowstorm and lose power for days.  This year we get this huge freak ice storm and lose power and have a lot of destroyed trees.  It’s…  a lot.  But, I guess that’s our winter, and, well, that’s how we get firewood.

Or something like that.

Valentine’s Day is approaching, so the shop is really heating up!!!  We put up a billboard!!!  It took us a bit to get it designed, well, we actually just hired someone to do it, but it’s up next to I-35!  It has a funny slogan and a picture of a woman with a donut for a ring!!!  And the woman is cat-girl wearing a maid outfit!!!

Hahaah!!!

Sabby’s really happy with it.  And she said the moment it went up, traffic increased by a lot.  People come in, and do a double-take.  “You’re actually the girl on the billboard!” She giggles, does a cute twirl, says “irasshaimase!”, and sells them a metric boatload of cookies.

We…  umm…  need to duplicate cat-girl.  She’s driving far too much sales to be irreplacable.

So, otherwise… just a Saturday.  Jack and I went on a date tonight.  It wasn’t the best, most elaborate date, but it was nice anyway.  We went to that track sushi place and pigged out on sushi, then we went to Mt. Bonnell and watched the sunset.  It was nice.  A little cold, but we cuddled and he’s a lot warmer than he looks.

Oh did I tell you?  His father got a promotion!!! Now he’s…  well.. .I guess doing more of what he did before!!!  They’re pretty happy about it, they’ll be able to afford a house soon.  They’re just waiting for the market to cool down a bit.

We didn’t go back to his apartment this time, though.  His parents were busy and there’s tree limbs everywhere.

Okay…  bedtime.  Tomorrow’s church!!!

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

OMG there was so much damage!!!

At Jack’s apartment complex, there were limbs down all over the place!!!  There was a 10 car crash this morning on 183A!  It was a VERY bad ice storm!!!

But it’s all melted now.  Thankfully!

I went to class today, Dave spent most of the day taking his crew and helping cut limbs.  He’s nice that way.  He did the same thing back in the tornado last year.  Plus he took a little for firewood.  We don’t have much that uses firewood, but he likes to use it for grilling sometimes.  All of our friends escaped major damage, but there were a few dings and scratches.

I’m just glad it’s over.

They’re making a big deal out of black history month at school, but Sabby wants me to ignore all that.  She says that there’s no such thing as black history or white history, there’s just history and we all share it.  I guess I can see her point.  She’s very different than some of the black people I meet at school – they’re kind of loud and annoying when they just keep complaining about everything.  But Sabby’s always been really levelheaded.  I guess it really isn’t about the color of your skin, but the content of your character.

I guess I don’t even really notice that she’s black.  She’s just… Sabby to me.

I guess if I have to choose between listening to loud and annoying people, or Sabby… I’ll choose Sabby every time.

Oh well.  Liz is over tonight.  Beth didn’t really want the girls over, she just wanted to spend some time by herself.  She gets a little moody sometimes, especially since… you know… with Crystal.  She’s still seeing a therapist but some scars don’t heal easily, I guess.  She loves Crystal, but… sometimes… it gets too much, I guess.

Liz and I are just hanging out and playing quiet games.  Neither of us really feel like being too boisterous.  I guess that’s a good thing.  There’s some balloon or something that China sent over the US and everyone’s in a tizzy about it, but Liz is as upset about it as everyone else.  She… doesn’t have much loyalty to China.  I guess I can understand that.  She’s an American.  Like me.

Okay…  guess it’s time for bed.

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me! Lily!

Things have melted!

But there are a lot of downed trees and limbs!!!!

We lost a few limbs from our tree too!  Thankfully it didn’t hit anything important.  Some of the streets were impassable!!!  Aww!!!

So of course Dave being Dave got out his chainsaw and had a bunch of his guys come around (the ones that could) and they roamed around the neighborhood cutting limbs left and right!!!  Chainsaws everywhere!!! David went along too, Dave taught him chainsaw safety.

Lots of places were still without power.  Aww.

But the roads are back to normal, at least – at least the ones that aren’t full of trees.

Texas winters are pretty nice – except when they’re not.

Okay!!!  Marie needs walked!!

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

And what a bad day!!!

So this morning we got up, and did our morning stuff, and… the power went out!!! And it didn’t come back on for hours!  And it was COLD!!!

It was a little like that storm a couple of years ago!!!

So Sabby lit some candles, and Dave did NOT get out a flamethrower (much to his disappointment), and we played board games wearing blankets and ate cold stuff.  Dave did get out his generator so we had a little power for necessities, like one light and our fridge and the microwave.  So it wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t good either!!!

We were so happy when the power came back on!!!

David was so upset because he couldn’t play his games, but Sabby told him that he needed to spend more time with the family anyway,, so tough luck.

Anyway, I guess it was alright.  We all spent time together, even Marie and Cat got in on the action (though Marie froze her little paws when she went out to do her business, poor Marie!) and I guess the day turned out alright.

Tomorrow’s supposed to be better, though.  Some more freezing rain tonight but then it all (hopefully) melts tomorrow.

Thankfully.

Okay!  Bedtime!  Hope the power stays on!!!

Love you all!!!