so, my dad and i got into a verbal cat fight yesterday because i asked him to change the channel to The Weather Channel because Fox News was screwing up their coverage of the Oklahoma tornadoes… he got super pissed.. and I was in an extremely bad mood. So yeah.. tempers were flaring…

I’m sitting here watching TV, and my mom says to go outside and help my dad mow the lawn. In normal circumstances… I always try to help with that stuff.. but my dad has this insanely annoying thing where he just expects me to do things.. magically. He walked past me twice and could have said… “oh hey. can you help out. I’m about to mow the lawn.” But of course… he doesn’t…

And yeah. He’s still probably ticked from yesterday, but he NEVER says anything to me about helping him.. and so when.. let’s say.. he’s doing some yard work.. If I’m not out there helping 20 minutes, he tells me how lazy I am and how I never do shit and how I suck and should just get kicked out of the house… I get bitched at and threatened.. oooh fun.

So anyway, I just get really mad and stuff, and my mom gets all pissed at me for getting mad…  wo[jg]qjwngnk;eng’lemw’gl seriously… ?

so of course, I have to be the better person and go out there and act like I can help out in some way… WE HAVE A DRIVING LAWN MOWER… THAT HE WON’T LET ME USE! WTF. Seriously. And you want me to help mow the lawn.. how? While YOU’RE riding on it mowing the lawn….

I’m just gonna go plant some flowers or something now…

if you can watch the damage from Moore, Oklahoma without shedding a tear.. it’s just absolutely ..awful. I just can’t even begin to understand what is going on there… it really truly is a sobering reminder of how deadly weather and tornadoes are… and even when we do so much to try to warn people and get people out of harm’s way… there’s just sometimes nothing we can do…

it hurts to watch this… as a meteorology-weather student… to see something i’m so passionate about and the destruction that it can cause…

i guess from seeing the destruction and everything… the goal is to improve things in the future. figure out how to develop a way to save more lives. i want to save more lives. as sad as it is to see these events unfold, i know that hopefully, i can take away from this and have this as a motivation to work hard and do as much as i can in the future to make a change…

running around while it’s 82 degrees and making sure you don’t slip and fall and drop all of your shit everywhere..

and then dealing with some rude customers… but then talking with some really nice ones…

i’m tired as hell

It’s been a year since I’ve waited tables at sunshine breakfast… but they asked me to come back for tomorrow…

and i don’t mind some extra cash in meh pocket.

Seattle/Vancouver

Boulder, Colorado

Tampa/Clearwater, Florida

So glad I’m getting to travel this summer! 

Any recommendations if you’ve been to these places?