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Spring skipped out this year & Mother's Day Adventures

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Starting off with a beautiful shot of the sunset. It's really hot these days and this has been going on since April.  I'm seriously considering that maybe global warming isn't total bs after all.  :/ The temperature has been in the 80's and it only backs down into the high 70's on cooler days.  I find it a bit sad because my tulips really took a beating this year.  There were rarely any days with mild spring weather and instead, we were met with either super cold snowy days or scorching hot days... wtf. It's like it's getting hotter and dryer each year.  Here's proof: http://mikun-revenge.blogspot.com/2011/08/spring-2011.html The spring from a couple years ago was so much more flowery with much, much cooler weather.  Now look at it...  My tulips are dry and deader than ever and flowers were pretty much nonexistent save for a few blossoms here and there. This year, it's like we jumped straight into summer without having the chance to enjo...

Cold days

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The weather has been really cold for weeks now!   I guess we'd have a few lucky days where the temperature would rise up to around 50 degrees but then it would be a windy day.  Bleh   It was sort of mis ty and t here was a dusty kind of snow in the air. So what have I been up to during these cold, cold weeks?  I recently fin ished a fairly long working streak.  It would hav e been 6 da ys in a row if I hadn't broken it up ; I'm glad I did.  Working 6+ days str aight starts to make one feel like they don't have a life outside of work.   Trust me, I've do ne 10-11 days of continuous working and it sucks!  A nd to top it all off, all my w ork days took place befo re my exam day so I had a great time cra mming a lot during my final days o f work. Okay, so I'm gonna stop talking about work right now because I usually save that for the rants, lol.  And just a warning, this post is gonna be really long .  I haven't blogged in a w...