friday randoms.

it's been quite awhile since i've done one of these posts, so i thought i'd dust it off and do one today.

1. oh, what a difference 72 hours can make! on the left was the weather on tuesday. scorching, humid, unbearable. (notice the part that says it feels like 46C?) and on the right is the weather this morning. i actually needed a sweater! not complaining, though. after weeks of heat, i was definitely ready to turn off the ac, open up the windows and breathe some fresh air.
2. we're going camping this weekend at hecla provincial park with some friends for the first time this year. i'm really looking forward to it, as i haven't been there in years. also looking forward to diving into these books while camping (thanks lenore!)
3. after 3 years, i've decided to get back on the grey's anatomy train. not sure why i stopped watching it in the first place....i think it was before we had pvr, and we were always busy the night it came on? anyway, i'm on season 6 and so far loving it! anyone else still watching this?

4. i ran into the mall quickly over my lunch break to look for new jean shorts, thanks to a little max incident, and really shouldn't have. there's sales galore at the mall right now! i always want to laugh because it feels like summer just arrived here, and yet all the summer stuff is on sale to make room for fall. doesn't seem right at all! have you gotten any good deals lately?

5. last night, kent woke me up at 3 am to say that he couldn't find george, our cat. she didn't come running when he gave them food, which is unusual. (yes, kent feeds the cats in the middle of the night. totally his doing - i have nothing to do with it!) usually, she comes bolting from wherever she is in the house the second she hears the knob turn on the closet where their food is kept. anyway, george has a terrible habit of jumping through windows to be outside. no joke. she's busted through our screens trying to get out before. and last night, because it finally cooled down enough for us to open our windows before bed (see #1 above), we figure she must have jumped out without us knowing.

so there we were, at 3 am, in our pjs, half awake, with lanterns (because we don't own a single working flashlight), scouring our backyard for this dark grey cat. to no avail. so then we tried the front yard. kent even walked to the main street, just to check. he told me later that he was scared to even look, for fear of seeing a dead cat on the road. so after checking the front and back and calling and trying to coax her by shaking a bag of treats, we were ready to give up. and that's when i saw something move above my head. and wouldn't you know? there's george prancing on top of our carport. i guess she had climbed a tree, and jumped onto the carport roof and was just hanging out. i figure she was probably out there at least 3 hours. and she probably hated us for making her come inside. i tell you, that girl was born to be a farm cat! oh the joys of owning pets!