Random Thoughts and Picture Dump

I've had so much running through my brain, but nothing to really make a post out of. I finally decided I better just write them down before my head explodes lol.

As I work I watch a lot of movies/shows on Netflix...it gets me through the day lol. Last week I decided to try a movie called Battlefield America. It had me captured from the start. It's a dance movie and ever since I've seen that I have wanted to do nothing but dance! I then proceeded to watch Footloose, the newer one, and I was surprised it wasn't as much of a dancing movie, but def makes ya want to cut a jig :) Dancing is one of my many passions I have. I actually wanted to be a backup dancer when I was in middle school. I still would LOVE to go on tour with someone and just dance my heart out. I express myself through music. I express it by playing piano and flute, through singing my heart out in the car (even if I can't sing I still belt out and pretend I can), and dance. Something about music that just allows me to be me. In fact I am trying something this year. As of this week I am posting a song a day from youtube on my facebook. I haven't declared on facebook what I am doing because there's really no need...I know what I am doing and it allows me to silently share how I'm feeling or a problem I'm going through. The catch for me is I have to hear that song in that day. I know....I'm weird.

The past three weeks have been interesting weather wise. I'm fixing to show my true weather geekiness lol. The first week we had potential for an inch of snow, the next week was an ice storm, and this week tornadoes. Reed Timmer is where I got word first that we would have a significant tornado outbreak yesterday and today. I decided to look his information out online and was amazed at what I found. His birthday is a day before mine AND he was only born 3 years before me....I think we were meant to be friends lol. Anyways so I started pulling up my weather apps and constantly sent updates via pictures...I'm sure I get quite annoying anytime we have abnormal weather :)

 This was last Friday (January 25)...it's not everyday you look at the weather and see ice hanging lol. We were originally supposed to get snow, but it turned to sleet.

 We only got ice on my car and Maddy's slide outside...it was really just a nothing event

 Yes, I had high hopes of actually getting something, but unfortunately we got nothing!

 My pictures got out of order so this isn't the picture that's supposed to be next.  This was on Monday I do believe. It's the SPC for Tuesday.

 Clearly this was Tuesday (January 29) We ended up being included in the slight risk for Tuesday, but we didn't get anything.

 We were supposed to get this Wednesday

 There were so many tornado warnings in a line Tuesday night. This was Missouri or Mississippi or Louisiana?

 The overall picture. I kept trying to predict when it would hit here.

This was taken from someone else in our town. This is what the storm looked like as it came over Chattanooga. We didn't have any tornadoes here today. Actually the storm kinda broke up and weakened here. I was up all night last night. I tried going to sleep but once I laid down Manny was just going crazy. He was so ancy and kept sitting on me...on my head rather, or he would climb all over me to sit on the arm of the couch. Yeah, I'm sleeping on the couch still lol. Anytime I got up he would run to Maddy's door. It worried me so I went to check on Maddy and she was a-ok. I knew the storms were getting closer, but they were still 6 hours away. I attempted to lay down again, but then I was scared I wouldn't hear my alarm or the weather radio, so I wouldn't let myself go to sleep. Manny was still going crazy by this point so I got up and took him out and then decided to be productive and work out. I worked out until 1 a.m. and then tried sleeping again. It took me a minute to unwind but I finally drifted off to sleep around 2 a.m. only to be woke up around 5 a.m. to my weather radio blaring in my room. It scared me so bad cause it seriously is beyond loud and I was disoriented and was thinking to myself OMG OMG how long has that been going off, is it a tornado, did it wake Maddy up lol...yeah...I couldn't get to it fast enough. It was just a darn tornado watch! I  fell back asleep for an hour and then snoozed and ended up making myself late to work. Yeah, it wasn't a great morning lol.

Maddy had to bring a picture of her dog to school today for show and tell. I'm so glad we have a dog! I chose to send this picture of our sweet Manny...he's not a dog...he's a part of the family!

It made me so sad because my mom found a Mrs. Manny. This dog looks JUST like Manny to a tee, but she is pregnant. She is currently in Bradley County, TN at an animal control place and will die tomorrow if she is not put up for adoption. Honestly, if she wasn't pregnant I would have gotten her right then and there. She is only 3 years old.

This girl has a serious electronic obsession! I am very much so limiting her use with this and the tv. She only gets to play it in the car through the week, but I give her more time on the weekend. Since I started doing this I have noticed a change in her behavior. It was getting ugly throughout the week so mommy put her foot down! I know...she looks kinda sad in this pic. She was very intent on what she was doing on top of fixing to fall asleep. Ever since I took her passy away she still moves her mouth as if she has one in there...she was doing the whole moving her mouth like passy was there thing when I took this. This was on Tuesday. I got tickled at my thoughts because once we got out of the car she was talking about the rain and I told her it was going to rain on Wednesday...the look on her face was like her mind was blown and I might have put on twitter that she thought I was a genius for knowing it was going to rain tomorrow lol.

I got a video of Maddy playing castle. It is honestly so cute!! This year I have started keeping her home more often instead of taking her to school because I get a lot more time that way. I can be done with work by 6:00 p.m. instead of 10:00 p.m. and only getting maybe an hour with her and that's spent feeding her and giving her a bath on bath night. Anyways, this was last Friday when there was ice. When I keep her home she will bring her toys right beside my desk and play while I work. Why send her to daycare when she does this you may ask? Well, she only does this for so long before she's begging me to play with her lol. This year so far she has stayed home at least once a week, minus this week.

This same day I took a long lunch to watch our first Disney movie...Lady and the Tramp. We turned out all the lights and cuddled up. I fell asleep and I woke up to see her eyes open at one point and so I watch the tv only to look back at her a minute later to her sound asleep.

It was really cute too because she fell asleep during the love scene of them eating spaghetti...the music is soothing I will have to say :)

I have quite a few pictures left to share...I think I will save them for another post so this doesn't get ridiculously long! I hope you all are having a GREAT week!!!