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It rained today.
May. 8th, 2009 01:41 am
It was sunny enough when I left the house to pick up Ana. As I walked to her school, I noticed a patch of dark clouds and thought it might start raining by the time we left the store. As I waited, the sky grew VERY dark, and the first drops started falling by the time Jessica's Dad (that's what he's listed under in my phone, too!) came by with an umbrella. Man, it was coming down a minute later when Ana walked out the door, and we took a ride home with him. Two minutes, he could barely see out the windshield, the water was FLOODING down our steps, and thunder, and lightning...!
Of course, when the rain comes that fast it ends fast too, and we made it to the store (two pounds of onions: $.99 three pounds of onions: $1.99. You see a problem with this?) and we got the ground beef and turkey necessary to make HAMBURGERS for dinner. I really outdid myself with those - the secret is to put in more garlic than usual because "eh, no point saving only three cloves, might as well use it all up".
I told Ana, as it was coming down, that old joke about how you know it's raining cats and dogs (you go outside and step in a poodle, of course). Then I realized she had no idea (though she laughed politely) what "raining cats and dogs" means, so I explained it's just a funny way of saying "raining a heck of a lot".
So of course, when she saw Nanen and I mentioned it had rained, she tried the joke on her. "How do you know if it's raining cats and dogs?" (Nanen has heard this joke, of course, but she played along.) "How?" "Because it's RAINING a LOT!"
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Ana's teacher says "You get what you get and you don't get upset", a statement Evangeline glommed onto as "You get what you get and you don't get... MAD!" (She has a real sense of comedic timing, the darling.) Ana recently modified that one too: "You get what you get, and you don't go killing people", which I suppose is true, but really Ana? Really?
Of course, when the rain comes that fast it ends fast too, and we made it to the store (two pounds of onions: $.99 three pounds of onions: $1.99. You see a problem with this?) and we got the ground beef and turkey necessary to make HAMBURGERS for dinner. I really outdid myself with those - the secret is to put in more garlic than usual because "eh, no point saving only three cloves, might as well use it all up".
I told Ana, as it was coming down, that old joke about how you know it's raining cats and dogs (you go outside and step in a poodle, of course). Then I realized she had no idea (though she laughed politely) what "raining cats and dogs" means, so I explained it's just a funny way of saying "raining a heck of a lot".
So of course, when she saw Nanen and I mentioned it had rained, she tried the joke on her. "How do you know if it's raining cats and dogs?" (Nanen has heard this joke, of course, but she played along.) "How?" "Because it's RAINING a LOT!"
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Ana's teacher says "You get what you get and you don't get upset", a statement Evangeline glommed onto as "You get what you get and you don't get... MAD!" (She has a real sense of comedic timing, the darling.) Ana recently modified that one too: "You get what you get, and you don't go killing people", which I suppose is true, but really Ana? Really?
