Perhaps you weren't awake all night listening to the siding on your house smash back and forth like an angry judge banging their gavel, BUT I WAS. You guys, it was so windy yesterday and all night long. I can prove this in several ways:
1. We no longer have a trampoline. Despite the fact that it was installed in what is essentially a mud pit and was pushed several inches into the ground, the wind done gone and picked that sucker up and flung it to the coyotes. The last time I saw said trampoline, it was hanging from a tree about 70 feet from where it belongs. In pieces. It's not going to recover.
2. My neighbors eat some weird stuff. I know that because apparently it is really difficult to wait until the morning to put out your trash and THEIR TRASH IS EVERYWHERE. I picked up random boxes and cans for 15 minutes this morning, including some weird breading thing for fish and an empty condom box. Obviously, those two things go together and that's why they flew into my driveway together.
3. Our power was out for a loooooong time yesterday. It was long enough for the clownfish I was trying to nurse back to health to die (no circulation in the tank = bad for sick fish). It was long enough for Mila to completely lose her mind because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO POWER? And it was long enough for me to be very curious about a comment on the neighborhood Facebook page. It was something like, "Is anyone else's power out? It's really bad when my mom can't watch TV."
I don't know what that means. I don't know why the two sentences go together. I do know the mom in question is old enough to be retired, but why is it bad when she can't watch TV on a Sunday afternoon? What is she missing? WHAT HAPPENS? For some reason, I keep picturing that the TV acts as a homing beacon and without it, mom is wandering aimlessly through the streets. I hope she didn't get hit by a flying trampoline.
4. The wind pulled a brand new Venti Starbucks latte out of my hand and whipped it at my car. I didn't know that was a thing that could be done, especially considering I grip lattes tighter than I do my own children in a crowded airport. It was late in the afternoon and I hadn't had any caffeine and yet ... buh-bye.
5. Oh, hey. Did I mention that it was windy? MILA DID. All of the times. She spent a good portion of her day telling me that it was windy and commenting on the wind and it was swell. It was especially swell when I was trying to focus on driving and not hitting any downed tree branches. Focusing usually helps with that, and I don't mean focusing on the wee person in the back seat who talks a lot, MILA.
6. Not helping Mila forget her woes was the shenanigans that happened when we went to see How to Train Your Dragon 3. The power went out at the theater and it was really super annoying because it happened exactly at the point where the hero of the movie is figuring out how to hero and all the action is happening. We had about 15 minutes of waiting for the power to return and the theater folks to get things back where they belonged. It was the longest 15 minutes of my life, MILA.
So, here's to hoping we're done with the wind because I truly think Mila's little head will fall off if we have another day like that one.