It Was Raining!

We had a HUGE (in my mind, hahaha) storm yesterday. It was amazing. Jamie said it was like minor hurricane weather. There were dark clouds outside (not as dark as a hurricane she said) and the wind was strong, but the RAIN. OH MY GOSH. It was raining so hard we couldn't see the house across the street! There was debris all over the place too, small branches that had been broken off and such. Jamie is all, "Yup, that's about the amount of debris we get from a minor hurricane." Wow! It sort of thundered and lightning, but not much. Mostly rain.

I've been blessed about the heat. It's not too hot that I can't stand it. Thank God. I swell up in the heat and it makes me absolutely miserable. It's been as Jamie told me before I left, "jeans and a tanktop" weather. The sun is kind of coming out today, but there's still puffy semi-dark clouds.

Jamie was laughing because Florida gets hurricanes, tornadoes (there was a warning yesterday one was forming near (get this) Yeehaw Junction), fires, mudslides, and some other big natural disasters and she said, "God must not have wanted people to live in Florida because we get all these big natural disasters." Course, I pointed out to her she doesn't get frequent earthquakes and blizzards. If they got those along with the others than, yes, maybe so :P

Yesterday night we went bowling. Jamie's mom had a date and the night before she scoped out the guy because they were supposed to go out that night, but he couldn't and...long story.She found out the day before that, first and foremost, he's not a man of faith so that basically ended it right there. Anyway, Jamie's younger (not youngest) sister found out they were going bowling and she wanted to. So, basically, with Jamie's mom's permission because she didn't exactly want to be alone with the guy, Jamie, me, Jackie, and her friend Chris all went bowling with Jamie's mom and her "date." :P It was pretty fun. I played one game and got killed by everyone else. I think I bowled a 63, Jamie's sister a 65, Jamie either was the high 90's or low 100's, Jackie's friend was in the high 80's, the "date" was 168, and Jamie's mom was somewhere near that. I started off really good and then just tanked. :P After one game (we had 2 hours to play and it took us about an hour to play the first game) we all left Jon and Jamie's mom to play another round while we went to the arcade.

Jamie and I played air hockey twice. It was more a game of "copy cat." LoL I'd score and then she'd score and we'd go back and forth till the end. She won both games just by 1 point! The funny part that made it seem like copy cat is I didn't wait till the puck was laying flat on the table before I hit it so it flew off the table. Well, Jamie would do the exact same thing right after me when she picked up the puck! Then, another time in the 2nd game, I hit it too hard against the side and it flew off the table. Well, right after picking up the puck, she did the exact same thing! It was pretty funny.

Jamie and I watched Ghost Rider last night too. It was...odd. I can see why people weren't jazzed about it (heard bad things about it before I saw it). it was just "okay." The storyline was dumb and...I dunno. I wasn't impressed.

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) I had no real concept of what the Ghost Rider was and it was weird. The Ghost Rider becomes it because they sell their soul to the devil and he's basically the devil's bounty hunter (I knew the Ghost Rider dwelled in the living and dead). So the devil's son wants more power than the devil so the devil calls up the Ghost Rider to defeat or bring his son back to hell. So it's like...there's no "good" guy. You're picking the lesser of the two evils and they left open Ghost Rider for a sequel. I doubt they'll make another, though. Nicolas Cage became it because he sold his soul for love. The devil said he can be free of his curse if he defeats his son. So Cage does, but he doesn't want to give back the curse because he wants to defeat the devil now because he, essentially, killed his father when he was younger and "accidentally" signed his soul over. Cage was reading the contract, "pricked" his finger, and the drop of blood just happened to fall on the sign line. The deal was that his father's cancer would go away and he would be well. Well, his father's cancer did go away, but he ended up dying in an "accident" the day after the contract was signed. Anyway, Cage vows vengeance on the devil for all those that are innocent whose blood is spilt (in other words vengeance for his father). Anyway, I could write-up a whole page about the the movie, but, in short, don't see it. :P It's dumb. I didn't like how it centered around the devil too, though the point of love was mentioned and how Cage was different because he sold his soul for love and not greed, but STILL. *shakes head* (END SPOILERS)

Today Jamie had to work from 7am-3pm and then we plan to go do put-put golf in the evening with Jackie, her friend Chris, Jamie, and I. Her mom has coupons for 3 free games and a $1 off another, so that's nice! Tomorrow we may hit either Disney World or Animal Kingdom. We may go to Kennedy Space Station too which is east of Orlando. Course, her mom pointed out that they have issues with Gators. I told her I've come all this way, I have to see a Gator sometime! :P Jamie mentioned a Gator park, but that just isn't the same.

On another Harry Potter note, JK Rowling is going to be doing a US "book tour" in October! She's hitting 3 schools and then Scholastic is doing a reading/signing contest for 1,000 people (any age!) in NY. Contest winners will receive a pair of tickets to see her read from Deathly Hallows, Q&A, and get the book signed on Friday, October 19th at Carnegie Hall. Contest doesn't open till end of July, but I'm entering!!

With that, laters.