last night kevin was at a meeting and i was very focused on playing bejeweled on his computer. because there is something wrong with his computer, not only does it not connect to the internet, it also randomly restarts every once in a while. this was slightly annoying while trying to do my best at the game, but it did give me a much-needed break.
i had gotten a couple of texts, but then my aunt sandy texted me from chicago to say GO OUTSIDE AND SEE IF YOU CAN SEE THE AURORA BOREALIS. she said she couldn’t see it there in chicago (where it snows and is cold way way way too much) because it was too cloudy.
so i dutifully put on kevin’s big coat, a hat and mittens, and took mollie outside.
it was very dark and cold out there. hmm, isn’t the aurora borealis a big swirly colorful cloud of color? nope, didn’t see it. the stars did look very twinkly, though, instead of static like i believe they usually do, but were they really more twinkly? i also saw a plane. i convinced mollie to come back in, and then kevin came home and as he was coming in, lester SHOT OUT the front door because he is a speedy and wily kitty, so then i had to put on my hate and coat and we tromped around looking for him. kevin found him in our neighbor chris’s back yard; luckily shining a flashlight seemed to stop him for a minute.
this morning i read that people could see the aurora borealis in SWEDEN. i think they also saw it in northern england.
i’ve never given much thought to having any kind of bucket list (did the movie invent that word, or was it already in existence?), no list of stuff i want to accomplish before i die, but now i’ve decided i’m going to have one, and seeing the aurora borealis is going to be at the TOP OF MY LIST.
one slight problem is that we’d have to be in sweden in the dead of winter; one article i read about it this morning said that people saw it there in some swedish place where it was THIRTY FIVE BELOW.
oh my.
but it’d be worth it, i’m sure. we’d have to go to sweden in the dead of winter, though, and stay for who knows how long, although maybe scientists are good at knowing when the next one will be.
hopefully there will be one sooner than in a hundred years.
when i lived in LA, one night we drove to some smallish mountain and sat in chair, bundled up (even though it probably wasn’t any colder than 50), and watched a meteor shower. it was quite awesome, and i’m sure the aurora borealis would blow that away.
meanwhile, last night i managed to be the TOP SCORER on one of the bejeweled games. because the game is on kevin’s computer and he used to play it a lot, there are scores for all the games, and ADDICTED KEV is the top five or seven scorers in each and every game.
until now.
ok then,
mrs. full of purpose hughes.