First Day of Fall ...

Listen Up Class....
the correct term for the First Day of Fall is "Autumnal Equinox". Que? What u say?

Well its when the sun is at 0° 00' which means daytime and nighttime are nearly the same amounts of time. On this day, we will have 12 hours of daylight.

Now, will I see all 12 hours???? No. In fact, here in my IT department we like to work with the lights off...so um 8 hours of work in the dark... then step outside... great i get to see 4 hours of sunlight... and thanks to Ike, I could frolic in the leaves that are all over the roads and sidewalks, hell i could jump into a pile of trees instead.... lol....

So Ike is over. finished playing evacuee...althought not to make light of it because seriously some people are without homes and even when you drive on 610 the signs says "Galveston closed off to the public" which is pretty devastating. I mean, i think the water is ugly yet I do love to go fishing on those piers out there.... bummer....

Power outage. yah u know it was kinda rough, nothing too crazy. We from Texas though, we can BBQ up a meal, no need for power. Cold showers on the other hand.. not cool..... On the up up up side... Houston is hands down a very close knit supportive community. Mayor Bill White deserves a standing ovation for being on top of the game and the way the city has recovered in just a week is truly amazing. I am a Houstonite...lol or Houstonian... people are just very very laid back here and I love that.

Oh so last night we had iftar at Ridwan's place. Then we watched the Dallas/Packers game and then we all decided to play Pictionary. hahahhah Girls vs Guys and the guys won both times, although I wont mention the crazy cheating goin on lol I will mention Sofia's lovely drawing which I have recreated here... this is what she drew:

no no, it did look exactly as scrappy as this rendition. hahahha so the three lines on top means it is three words...ok fine... and mind you, during this game if you are the one drawing, you cannot talk to your teamates, they have to guess the words. So she draws the whale and i guess it and she acknowledges that part is correct... here is where it gets a little strange.... she draws that man there holding up a sign... so we are all "Protest?!" "Protest animals?" "Whale watching?!" hahahha just yelling out all sorts of stuff... then she draws that other object you see on your left... a stop sign... so now we are all "Stop!" and Sofia is getting all excited as the drawer nodding her head that we are on the right track...so we are all "Stop! Whales! ??? Stop Watching Whales?! Stop killing Whales?!!" and finally we yell "Stop the Whales!!" haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhah and she is all "Yesssssssssss!! that's it!!!" and so at that moment i was slightly feeling confused because that phrase didnt make sense to me. The category was action and why would you stop whales?? hahha well then the guys were like "no! that's not right, you guys are wrong!" and Sofia is like, "Nah ah!! That was the word!!!" and by this time ...the timer has run out. Then Aman yells at Sofia "No u dummy! It was "Save the Whales!!" OMG. hahahhahahha i died laughing!!! and then Dullah pointed out "and why would you draw a man on his sign that he is holding????" hahahhahahahhahahha so we were all dying of laughter and i had to throw in "ur drawing BLOWS." hahahhahahhahahahhahah i luv it. that was too much fun. heehee... ok that was my game night last night with my old skool peeps. yays!

Have a lovely cool fall day. Smile, it just makes things better despite all the BS.. lolz......