User blog:KachiUkaia/Some Random Randomness

Aren't I just so creative? Best title for a blog EVAH. (not.)

So anywayyyy

My grandmother randomly stopped by today (we never get any warning of when she comes, because she has to have someone drive her, and their schedules don't leave open time for both of them at the same time very often, but when they have time they just come over, does that make any sense? this is a really long sidenote, I'll stop now).

So anyway.

She came with very late birthday gifts for me and my older brother (mine was in February, his was in May) as well as some random Easter candy.

I wound up with this perfumed lotion type stuff, a REALLY cute card, some random assorted Easter candy, and a watch.

It's very pretty.

It's purple, which is one of my three favorite colors as well as my birthstone (amethyst :3). I really like it, although one-handed watch fastening is not as easy as it sounds, and it doesn't even sound that easy.

In other, more serious news, there are like three fires happening in the cities and general areas around me :( People are being evacuated, and it's just so hot out and we live in a semi-arid (which, for those of you who may not know what that means, it's like a place that isn't all lush and green, but it isn't quite dry enough to be a desert either ... deserts are arid, so if a place is dry but not like desert dry it's semi-arid. enough with the geography lesson. I'll return to my point now.) (I keep putting a " instead of a ) ! )

The fires are all headed away from where I live, but that doesn't make it any easier. We had a really big fire earlier this year and it destroyed so many homes. We're also in a situation that isn't exactly a drought, but it's pretty close. Everywhere we go there are signs and billboards and whatnot giving tips on ways to conserve water. Three more fires are the last thing we need right now.

I guess the point of this blog is just to say, life isn't as happy la-la as some people seem to think. People could be losing their homes as I type this, and they wouldn't even know because so many people have been evacuated.

What hurts even more is knowing that on the side (literally) of typing this, I'm on a chat on Skype with this person that I've known for a while now, and I sorta summarized what's going on, and he doesn't seem to care. I mean, it doesn't effect him at all, because he lives in a different country. But it would be nice if he would at least take the  time to listen and understand how hard this is! I'm not directly affected by it either- like I said, they're moving away from where I am- but I see the smoke. It's just this giant cloud of smoke rising and covering a pretty large section of the sky.

It's not easy, knowing that people's houses could be burning and there's nothing I can do about it.

one Servant for all who Desire; a Protective Haven for those in need  03:00, June 12, 2013 (UTC)