Hurricane Hunters

How cool is that???!!!!!
Check it out here (unfortunately, their website - hurricanehunters.com seems to be down).
Yesterday I got to see the inside of a plane used for Hurricane Hunting! It was the plane of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and I got to meet some of the men that fly in it. And I even got to see pics taken from the inside of the storm - the stadium effect.
Can you imagine - these are people that don't just see a storm - they fly into it! How I think of it:
"Oh look thunder, lightning, hurricane force winds and high pressures - let's fly into it"
These men must be (insert your word here)(my word is crazy!!!extreme!! cool!!).
In storms they can experience drops of 1000's of feet in seconds - any of you ever experience turbulence - you know a sudden drop of a few feet causes your stomach to get a little funny feeling and you feel a bit shaken - now imagine 1000's of feet. CRAZY!! they said it's like a roller coaster and everything and everyone is strapped down.
I'm getting such a rush thinking of it (can you tell??). For the first time ever I wanted to learn how to fly a plane (though, not necessarily fly it into a hurricane).
wooohoooo!

LOL

lol. so, apparently it's been soooo long since I last blogged that I actually forgot - not only my password - but my gmail account address.... lol
anywho - I've managed to recover it - and voila! I'm back on blogger. I am currently inspired to write because -
1*Shopgirl* is currently on fire and I'm reading quite freqently and now feel like writing
2 I'm on vacation (ah the joys of teaching - my favourite part so far)
3 I have lots of fun teaching stories

so I'll be back soon.
heart tulip

Dreams like water

"dreams like water is to do with hope - she is like a camel and stores dreams like water. She can live on almost nothing but dreams." (Tulip)


This sums up much of 2007 for me. Dreams and memories have been my food. Here's hoping for 2008 to be a year of action: acting on new dreams.

I hope to write a "Staying connected 2007" very soon (thanks so much Sappho for starting, and upholding the tradition!) but today, all I wish to say is
HAPPY, HEALTHY 2008 to all you readers!!
I love you! (spart, sappho, C, shopgirl, hun, N, tulip, sweets, molly!)(person that I suspect I forgot)

heart,
tulip

I miss (from June 22)

June 22
I miss…
I miss:Tom
So I: watch the cows across the street – they like themselves on their sides

I miss: Grey’s anatomy
So I: wonder if all my friends who are now doctors (about 4 of them!) experience anything remotely similar to it.

I miss: a variety of fruit for a reasonable price
So I: drown my sorrows in mangos which are in abundant supply (my pee turned dark yellow, I wonder if that’s related)

notes:
the cows lick themselves - although I'm sure they like themselves too. And just for the record - cows lick themselves in a totally different way from cats - or at least I haven't yet seen a cow sitting on its rump with it's back leg over its head!

Heya

Heya
how you doing? i'm well. Saturday went well. all of my old group showed except for what's his name. So I got to see lots of familiar faces. and at first it was kinda odd and awkward and you could feel that people were trying to figure out what sorts of things to say to each other because everyone was just a bit different - but later on we were laughing and joking like old times. What's his name didn't come because he wasn't told about it - I'd asked a friend to tell him and my friend forgot. I felt really worried and bad because he's the only one of our 15 person group that didn't know....
oh well.
I really didn't do it on purpose (but you know I griped about it for hours)and then worried about it for more hours. I won't be calling him to explain, it's really not such a big deal. and if it is, who cares?! I shouldn't!
here's a line from my journal that day (after thinking about it for hours):
" You know there are some people that fade into the distance and you just hear about them occasionally? Sometimes I wish I could be one of those people to myself.... and not have to live with me every single moment: I think a lot."
Anyways - I had a good day, the water was bee-oo-tiful. I'm going to try to stop obsessing about when I'll bump into him. *shakes head, sighs*
tulip