Spring is Here!

It's hard to believe that the FIVE months of snow is finally done! (It's about fricken' time!) Ain't no more snow on the ground anymore and if there is, it's slowly melting away along with Frosty. The thousands of lakes are almost completely thawed out, but you can still see some birds walkin' on water. I realize that the majority of my weather updates has been full of my bitchin' and complainin' about the cold and whatnot, but y'know what, I'm good now. Just 'cuz spring is here doesn't mean that MN is having perfect weather...on the contrary, people! The temps have still been in the 40's and we've been having rain dumped on us like it's nothin'! But ya'll want to know what tells me that spring is here? --------> da BUGS!!!

They're Back......

It started about 5 days ago. I was awakened not by the alarm clock, but by birds chirping noisily away! The sun was shining and it was just a beautiful day. I want to say that it got up to 70 degrees that day, too. So I'm fixing the bed and I hear this distinct sound...'twas like a squeaky car, but not. I literally had to stand still to try and figure out what was making the noise. Then, I finally realize.....ewwwww, they're bugs! They're back! Nooooooooooooo! With all melting of the snow, it's like these things were suddenly reborn. Specifically, I'm almost sure it's lil' Jimminy crickets, but dude, they are nonstop in their music making! Geez, I thought they only made their presence known mostly at night....shoot, not these lil' buggers. 'Course I could be wrong about them being crickets- I wouldn't be surprised if they were some other bugs unbeknownst to me. I remember when we first moved here, I saw a creepy crawly that I never saw before and it totally freaked me out! These buggers must be trying to make up for their absence during winter time 'cuz they seriously don't shut up! All day and all night, neverending, non-stop....don't these things take a break to even breathe?! It's driving me nuts! But on the real though...as long as I only have to hear them and not see 'em (or shoo 'em, swat 'em, kill 'em, run from them), I'm good to go.

Back to da Bay- Part 3

Ya'll remember the "blog war" that went on sometime last month between a friend and myself? Well, seeing that I was going back to da Bay for a few days, I decided that I wanted all of this nonsense to stop. I emailed Keyopes to ask if she'd be willing to meet up with me while I was in town. She agreed. We were to meet up at Mel's Diner near the Metreon for some din-din. I won't lie, but I was a lil' on the nervous side. Needless to say, we met up, ate, and did a lot of small talking at first. It was cool to catch up on each other's life and it was nice to hear about her many adventures of bein' a mommy of two. After dinner, we decide to find a place to really talk outside Metreon. We finally cleared out our dirty laundry and cleared the air about what was going down in our friendship. There was a point where I got teary-eyed when she mentioned that the spot for ninang for her youngest was still open for me. We delved into lots of personal and sensitive issues and honestly, it was like a burden lifted off my shoulders. Not to say that everything is back to the way it was 'cuz it's hard to make up for lost time, but we're definitely back on track as far as to where our friendship stands. 'Twas just so great to talk to a girlfriend again and I realized it more in those few hours with Keyopes how much I've missed it.

It's amazing to see how much we've grown, how much we've experienced, yet still remain unchanged in so many ways. It's been a long time coming for us to confront this matter...almost 4-5 years, can you believe that? But I am a true believer that all things happen for a reason and that all things happen in due time. It may have been 4-5 years, but it's time to put all that bad sh*t behind us now. Hell, maybe it's 'cuz I'll be turning 30 soon and I've come to realize that life is too short to let pride get in the way of some misunderstandings that happened years ago. I'm so thankful that things turned out the way they did and I'm looking forward to rebuilding the friendships that once were.