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Revenge of the pollen

Well, It's been awhile life gets busy, and then you forget the name of your own blog. We are no longer in the Northwest we are now... in Georgia! I know, big change. But I am getting organized now and can no longer resist the urge to post on my blog. This is in thanks to the phenomenon that we will be refering to as "green snow". It reminds me of Groudhog Day when what's his face says, refering to the winter, "it's long, it's cold, and it's going to last you the rest of your life". What is this green snow you ask? It's pollen. Oh yes, this "snow" is green, it's everywhere, and it's going to make you sneeze. Truth is stranger than fiction, and I just can't make stuff like this up. For those of you here in Georgia this post will be a nice commiserate. For those of you in Washington, it' like the twilight zone. Creepy, and it definately wants to make you stay indoors. We ate dinner outside and 20 min later EVERYTHING had a brand new pollen layer on it. All the cars look like they haven't been washed in months. We drive up the driveway and we can see our tire tracks. My deck etc.. looks like it needs a good dusting. And, I have now bruised my eye from all the rubbing and,- I feel like I have a sinus infection. I woke up last night, kinda having a hard time breathing. And I thought (in my sleep stupor state) Hey I'll just open the window and everything will be all better in about 10 min. Then I remembered Hey Dorothy, you're not in Washigton anymore, open that window...AND YOU WILL DIE!!! Or at least feel like it's a definate possibility. So instead I "slept" sitting up. AJ now has a mutiny on his hands. That's right, I turned on the AC. And I don't even feel bad. Hey, something has got to filter this air. This stuff would make some seriously malicious snowballs. Thankfully, I don't think it packs well. Oh- but I did see some children (at least 30) "sledding" down a dry hill on paper boxes. Poor real snow deprived children. (I think I took a picture -maybe I can get some help with that)We actually tried it. It just wasn't so thrilling. We stopped. Well I have more but you will have to turn in next time for more "tales from the blog" Next time, What does pollen taste like? and more.

The take down!

Just when you think nothing interesting is going to happen to report on your new -and lame blog...someone gets arrested in the middle of your street. I know you're thinking sure, it happens every time. But it's never happened to me before. Sure -a guy was arrested on the SIDE street when we lived in Kirkland. That happened just as we were telling some friends with a new baby who were staying the night with us what a safe neighborhood it was. -Despite it being behind a bar. Timing sure sucked on that one. But I digress, we are not talking about side streets. This is smack dab in the front -neighborhood meeting and all. We were only missing the COPS camera crew.

Background- So a couple days ago I pull into the driveway and I see (I don't know his actual name- let's go with loser) ...loser standing topless in his fathers front yard. Hmm I think to myself, I thought he was in jail... again, must be out... again, bummer. Then loser starts walking toward me as I get my daughters out of the car. He says something, I wave like I'm shooing a fly away. (my daughter is instinctively afraid of him, so I go with that) he keeps walking past and turning and staring at us etc... So I think hmm creepy and call to tell my husband so he can finger the perp -just in case.

Moving on- A couple days later I'm coming home and a cop car is coming in the opposite direction, so I pull over, but no he stops and stares down my road for a while then turns in. I follow (since I live there), a man is standing in the middle of the street. He puts his hands up and lays down in the street as the cop car approaches. Despite the ease of "the takedown" cop cars continue to arrive in droves. They speed up on our street just so they can slam their brakes on 10 feet later, whatever. This is especially unhelpful since all the neighbors are out wondering who the man is surrounded by 10 police talking to him. So who is it? That's right, it's loser! And what has loser been doing for his 2 weeks of freedom. Apparently he's been doing bad things, heroin and walking up and down the street WITH KNIVES!! All while muttering that the neighbors are trying to get into his house to steal his checks. I know- you're thinking nice neighborhood Shauna. But it is nice, by this I don't mean expensive, I mean the people are nice. This mans father is even fairly nice. And we all feel badly for him, just not bad enough to want him around. And so ends a quiet day as loser ends his 2 week adventure with freedom... until next time, stay tuned -and get your own checks dangit!

Hello to those reading this. I started this blog because it seemed like a good idea at the time (right now being "the time"). You'll read about what's going on with me and the "some not" will mainly be my family. Basically only interesting to those that know me. And if a stranger is so bored as to be reading this then I guess you're not all that picky anyway.

I'm 28, live in the Northwest and have a long list of things I used to do. Now I have a 3 1/2 year old named Fiona and a 10 mo. old named Elora and a different list. Not everything on it is all fun (no list is) but among the favorites is my second childhood that I get to enjoy with them.

Thanks for reading, this could get very exciting. Who knows I may even learn how to post a picture. Some of me.....and some not.