The sum of our parts

Funny, it's my last day of "being in my 30's" and the windstorm is keeping my mind off any troubles besides "OMG is that tree going to snap and take down the power lines? Was that a roof shingle? Will the old roof on the chicken coop hold? OMG look at all those broken bits of tree flying across the lawn!"

You get the idea.

January 25th, 2009: 14C (57F) with a raging sky battling clouds against sun. I've never seen anything like it, this is nuts.

I just pray that nothing will happen when Vegas is gone cuz little old me will be stuck all alone in this huge place with no way to shovel any big amounts of snow or lift broken trees out of shattered windows. Yeah, hubby has to travel for most of February and a huge chunk of March - sucks, but in a way it's good to break the routine once in a while.

Who wants to come visit me? :-D

So yeah, tomorrow is the big 4-0. I think I'm getting over the night terrors, it's just another day on the calendar right? I don't feel any different, still bugged by the same old aches and pains, still wearing the same old clothes and smelly farm boots. *shrug*

Lookie what I got this morning! I thought to try and grow alfalfa sprouts for the flock since greens cost a fortune this time of year, I remember my mom growing them in jars when we were little (blecch, sprouts taste like soap) and that inspired me to give it a go. It took 5 days:

Grew about $10 worth for less than 50 cents, it's amazing!
And it was SUPER easy, too!

I'm starting another batch tonight so that I have some on hand pretty much all the time until spring, when they can free-range again. I'll also try to grow some wheat-grass for the heck of it.

So. We get to this bit:

10 things I wanted to accomplish before turning 40 (in no particular order) and that I am proud to say are DONE!

Buy my first house
Quit the rat race and find a job I loved
Start my own business
Move out of the city
Not get pregnant
Travel some more and smell the sea
Discover new hobbies and passions
Learn to love who I am
Buy a bread machine
Make new friends and disengage from emotional drains

5 awesome, unexpected things that happened (in no particular order):

Fell in love for real and got married to the best man evar!
Got a third doggy, aka "meathead"
Became a stepmom as well as an auntie
Found inner strength I didn't know I had
Fell into a life more wonderful than I had ever imagined possible

Weather update:

The sun is gone and has been replaced by torrential rains slapping against the house, ripping shingles off the roof (we went out and checked) - we nearly lost a one of the barn doors, good thing Vegas saw that in the nick of time, we secured it with giant rocks and hope it'll hold until this crazy storm passes. The giant rabbit hutch that was buried in the snow yesterday got flipped upside down and blown across the yard. Holy shit. So dark and scary, I can only imagine what a monsoon must feel like :-o

/end of What's With The Insanity! post/