Your heart will pump and your blood will sing!
So let the party and the song rock on,
We're gonna shake it til the life has gone!
Rose tints my world keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!"
Sang my sister and I as we drove home, starting the end of the crazy day.
So, the rain has continued non stop since yesterday, and will continue all night. There are flash flood warnings and actual floods everywhere, including the porch areas of the basement apartment where I live. Now, I started my day with the repeating sound of my phone alarm going off in the kitchen, sometime around, oh, before dawn. I waited for it to turn off so I could get back to sleep, because I couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. I jumped out of bed around 9 when I remembered I still had to do my Japanese homework before class. It was fairly easy, and so was class. I got a bit of really good news in the middle of class, which I will tell later.
I came home and had to take care of a few errands, and there was just enough time to see my editor off before he went to class. I put off doing a math quiz for a little bit, but I did eventually start it. I'm lucky that each quiz has two attempts (because its an online class), I didn't do as well as I hoped, but I had planned on having my tutor help me with the second one attempt. However, this is where the night went crazy.
He had classes until the evening, and I had agreed to pick him up so we could take the quiz in my fancy office space. While I was waiting for him to give me the ok to get him, my sister came over, prancing in the rain with her little dog. She needed me to drive her so she could buy cat food. We spent the thirty minutes or so trying to get her dog to stop attacking the water which was overflowing from the creek that is nearby. By the time she was ready, the rain became more heavy, and it has remained that way for the rest of the night.
My sister and I were at the grocery store for a little while, just enough time for our friend to say he was ready to be picked up. He lives near the college campus, and since that was where my editor was working, I figured I could see if he could get out early so I could drive him to his car (rather than waiting in the rain for the bus. Don't think to hard about it). Well, this is where things turned bad. Like, horror movie bad.
The rain continued to beat down on the city, I ran into the building where my editor works, leaving my sister and our friend in the car. Everything was going smoothly, until we were about to leave and my car wouldn't start. My guess is, during the time while I was waiting for my editor, the battery in my car decided to stop working. Well, I panicked. Ironically, I had intended to drive my editor to his car so he didn't have to bus to it in the rain, and he had to do it anyway so he could get his truck and jump start our car. While we waited for my editor to return, we made awkward jokes and told non-relevant stories. I kept peeking out the car to see if a cop pulled up behind me, (we were stuck in a handicap spot).
I was so happy to see my editor pull up when he did, I s afraid he wasn't going to make it back to his car because of flooding. My car jumped right up and we were able to return home safely. On the way, my sister and I sang as loud as we could along with The Floor Show from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (hence the title and quote in the beginning).
BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE!!!
After my friend and I finished going over my quiz, my sister and her roommate popped by to bail out my, then, flooding porch. They unclogged my drain and helped our neighbor push water into our drain (so it wouldn't flood her windows). Actually, right when I started writing this post was when they came by. I offered to pay them with lasagna and bread that I am making for dinner, so I'm expecting them to come by soon.
It's been one hell of a day, and I'm expecting tomorrow to be just as crazy, mostly because of the rain.
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